Deep impact.

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After Gush Katif, the Merkaz Harav's attack hit me the deepest and the hardest.

I am still shaken.

HaShem took the most precious jewels of klal yisroel.

We are left childless and brotherless.

My pain come from knowing that they were yashiva bochurim, that they sit and learn Torah all

day.

Today I went back to seminary, I was relieved to find my rabbeim and my friends that I haven't seem since Thursday.

We managed to read tehillim between shiurim for the refuah sheleima of the hospitalized bochurim, we talked, we shared our dismay, we were mechazek each other.

We had questions, why? why them? why HaShem takes the most precious of his children?...we shed tears, we held each other's hands, we made hachlotos.