There is a Jewish teaching that says: “In the midst of life, remember death; in the midst of death, remember life.”

Last week, as we watched the images of kidnapped hostages returning home, hostages who had been tortured for over two years with death never far away, those words have never felt truer.

Miraculously, they clung to life – even at its most tenuous – returning from the shadows of death into the light of life.

Seeing Evyatar David, who we last saw being forced to dig his own grave, reunite with his family; Noa Argamani reuniting with her boyfriend Avinatan Or; hearing that gifted pianist Alon Ohel played piano for the first time in two years – each of these images will forever live in the hearts of Israelis and Jews worldwide as a victory of good over evil, of life over death.

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