Rubin, David Elchanan

Ben Yosefa and Mishael Yitzhak. Born on the 17th of Sivan 5746 (17.6.1986) in Jerusalem, he was born in Kiryat Arba and grew up in the religious state school ” He continued his high school studies in Kfar Etzion, at the “Mekor Chaim” high school in the home of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, and at his parents’ home, David embraced the love of the Land of Israel and the people of Israel, the love of Torah and the love of man, These values ​​are also given to his students in the Ariel youth movement. “As an apprentice he had his own principles,” the cadets say, “and he would argue and insist on them, and no less importantly – pleasantly. He was very joking and joking, but on the other hand he was mature and serious. “Years after he left the branch, David continued to maintain close contact with his students and to organize special activities for them – trips, discussions and discussions, etc.” He influenced us with his modesty, prayer and virtues. There was also great humility in him. It was all part of a life of true Torah, “the students say, and David’s friends also tell of his humility, his lack of self-sufficiency, his concern and his help to others, and his ability to meet the high standards he set for himself. We saw a wonderful combination of a serious person, an idealist, who takes life seriously and does not contradict the natural joy of life, straight and simple, but rather the opposite: it is given its meaning, and it is raised immeasurably, “wrote one of them. Founders, initiators and organizers of a bicycle trip to Jerusalem held every 28 Iyar, Jerusalem Day, in memory of Yitzhak Buenish, the security officer of Kiryat Arba, who fell in battle with another eleven soldiers and civilians as they made their way to the Tomb of the Patriarchs. This is how David wrote in the Kiryat Arba youth newspaper: “… In this type of activity, the youth unite and come together and are empowered to carry out moral activities against the people of Israel. … It is worth understanding the magnitude of the miracle that we experience in the journey … “David loved the Land of Israel. He never stopped walking the country’s paths, springs and caves, with friends or alone. Some of his trips were conducted with his friend Ahikam Amichai, and they shared a lot. “Young people who knew no fear,” the friends say, “guys who did not know what pride, honor or jealousy were, and who went with their truth to the end, in any situation.” To a friend’s question, “What is a trip?” David answered simply: “A trip is the ability to focus on small, negligible details, to examine them, to understand them, to associate them without impressing them, without trying to influence them … Those who know how to travel in life are the ones who know how to travel in their streets. ” David liked to write – thoughts, dilemmas, cries of direction in relation to his life, descriptions of events that were present in them and more and more. He took a pen and notebook with him on every trip, and during a break from the long walk he would put his thoughts in writing. His notes show the fervor of faith and the sense of mission that guided his path. “I do not believe in an easy life,” he wrote, “I do not think I came here just … I’m not willing to be a simple person … I have to act, advance and improve many points in the Jewish people, not just the private home. The people need people to organize it and mainly push it upwards … I want so much to help the people of Israel! ” At the end of his high school studies,But after a while he decided to move to the high yeshiva in Mitzpe Ramon – “because he knew that breathing the air of a yeshiva is another air, living in an atmosphere of great diligence and love of Torah is something that everyone needs to To be a healthy person, “as one of his colleagues explained, and David described the difference between studying for yeshiva students:” The Mechina can be compared to the stream and the yeshiva to the sea. There are people who fit the reality of a river, and they will invest and shade a good name and therefore good to be there. But there is no doubt that Yeshivah is the real sea and the text is written: “All streams flow to the sea.” David was described as a quiet person, “but one whose quiet radiates outward.” Rabbi Kobi Dvir said: “David He was a great pious. A stable and very strong man mentally, mentally and physically. He wanted very much to learn Torah, and he studied diligently. I had never seen such a solid and solid person in all his being. “The study at the yeshiva strengthened David’s belief in man’s ability to choose the path to go:” … the main thing is that man knew he could progress on his own, even if he did not progress much … ” Is the need to look from within. Life is a long, long process, of which man is a part. The Torah teaches us to look at quality rather than quantity. “The disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip and the settlements in Samaria made it very difficult for David, who wholeheartedly believed in the right of the people of Israel to every piece of land in his country. David’s self-examination at the end of the disengagement process led to clear conclusions: “I think that the disengagement only sharpened my memory of the disengagement plan. The state of the nation and the need to fight out of Torah and fear of Heaven . … Although I have always wondered where he could make the most of his military service, it was clear to him that he would go to an elite unit. “Despite all the fears , “He wrote,” I’m dying to enlist already. To go out, to see the world, to deal with things, challenges and a new life. “David described the close connection between the IDF and the revival of the Jewish people in his country as” the realization of a process in the redemption of Israel. ” “I have never dreamed of being a chief of staff, but I do dream that together with other serious guys who are enlisting in elite units and for significant command positions, we will put a brave spirit into the army, The people sitting in Zion! Army and war are not our nature, but we are ready to fight if we must … “David chose to volunteer for one of the elite units in the unit – the Naval Commando Unit – he successfully passed the draft, and on his enlistment on the 13th of Av 5766 07 He said to the commander: “I do everything from within the Torah,” he said to his commander. . If I can contribute here, if it is appropriate, I am the only service. If not, I’ll donate somewhere else. David did not compromise on his inner truth and stood firm against religiously complex situations he had to deal with as a religious soldier, and his insistence on not missing a single prayer sometimes cost him an increased physical effort and uncompromising devotion. Here is about thatOn one occasion, his crew was called out for a night workout that was supposed to end the next day. He said to one of the friends that he was already coming back, and ran a long distance to the base and hurried back to the staff equipped with his tefillin bag. “When he came home for Shabbat, David would wake up in the morning and go to pray in the Cave of the Patriarchs – he would say, ‘I need strength from the fathers.'” His mother says that under his influence some of his friends also started to put on phylacteries, One of them, completely secular, said David: “Slowly, you need explanations, you have to learn.” For four months David managed to serve in the “Shayetet,” and even took part in operational activities. When asked one time if he was afraid, he replied, “Yes, I am afraid to lose some of the gentleness that is inside me.” And on the route itself, he wrote: “The route is difficult not because of the journeys or the length, but because all the time you want to aspire higher … You must not stay in place … compare it to the worship of God, I wish us!” On the evening of Shabbat, 28 Tevet 5768 (28.12.2007), a few months before the end of the route, David fell in battle in Nahal Telem. It was a vacation time, and David went with his friends, Corporal Ahikam Amichai and Naama Ohayon, to hike in the Telam River north of Hebron, near the Trans-Judea Highway. Around noon the travelers went down to the spring and saw a Palestinian vehicle. They waved good-bye, but as the car approached, the four occupants pulled out their weapons and began shooting. David and Ahikam were hit by the shooting, but before they collapsed, they managed to return fire, kill one of the terrorists and severely injure the other. Naama, who managed to escape into the bushes and hide, summoned the security forces and directed them to the scene. A doctor who arrived at the scene pronounced the two dead dead. The interrogation of the Shin Bet revealed that the terrorists were Palestinian policemen, and David and Ahikam’s funeral procession left their home in Kiryat Arba and ended in the cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, where they were buried side by side. But David and Ahikam were lions, they were giants, “said their son Sarah, their friend David was twenty-one years old when he fell, leaving behind his parents, four sisters and five brothers, and was raised to the rank of sergeant. The most important thing that David repeated over and over is that the Torah can be combined with life. With the day-to-day, with the action, even with the most difficult operations in the “flotilla”. There is no need to give up anything, not to be ashamed and not to be afraid. David and Ahikam were commemorated in many factories, one of which is “David and Ahikam Tours” – tours and tours throughout Yehuda, Shomron and Binyamin, and the anniversary of their fall was raised at the “Alon Yosef” synagogue in Kiryat Arba. With the participation of spiritual leaders and religious leaders, in the memory of David, in the framework of an evening Beit Midrash in Jerusalem’s Har Homa neighborhood, where his friends at the Mitzpeh Ramon Yeshiva renovated a hall and turned it into a synagogue called “Tzemach David.” David’s fans and Ahikam created a presentation that tells the story of their lives and death. The presentation features a song written in their memory written by Tzur Erlich: “Mark Those who, on the day of the wadi, are far away, outside, they will feel homesick, and there, in the absence of hearing, They said: “I love you / my country, and I set out on a trip, // those guys who do not follow the line / who do not go idle, but walk in the valley, the mountain and the space and the steep path. The two friends with picturesFrom their joint trips, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqw_Xsh5oiQ Another memorial in the Bible: The booklet “Beauty and Modesty” by Rabbi Moshe Bleicher; “Prayer of the Road” postcard with their picture; Pamphlet on the importance of the trip in Eretz Israel, and more. Much has been written about David. His friends from Mitzpeh Ramon met their memories in the booklet “Adino Haetzni – It’s David”. Mordechai Begun wrote: “‘Adino Hazni’ is the definition that suits you, on the one hand a strong guy in an elite unit in the IDF, where physical fitness is required at the highest level, daily coping with stress and danger. On the other hand, a quiet man, modest, not angry, does not shout, learns quietly, gently, with dignity. “Jacob Yungreis wrote from the yeshiva:” The definition that best suits David is ‘sailing’. A sail is a man who knows what his role is and what his role is in the world, and he goes with it to the end … always swim, and always be with his head up, to aim for the destination despite the angry waves and whirlpools. “David’s apprentices also wrote what they wrote in his memory. Brother Netanel: “You were the firstborn, the firstborn. Always worried, inquiring and interested. You were and remain a pride to the family, a symbol and role model. “We have always known that you will find the optimism, the hope, the good word, and especially the vision of the distance, the final, the purposeful one, that knows and internalizes that it will be good in the latter, full of joy, joy and a blessed creation of the soul. Healthy … “wrote Ben-Shitrit:” You were an extinct species, a hero and gentle at once, quiet and transmitting power in the same tone, unique and special. … a man of true redemption with Torah and heroism in the same soul. “Your death commanded us life, like the light of a lighthouse that illuminates us in the dark …” In his essay on devotion, David wrote: “The understanding that a person agrees to give his life for an ideal so great that he considers it more than his private life causes us to delve deeper into What is the ideal on which man gave his life? There is a shocking cry here that says: You must instill in yourself the meaning of the ideal. Deepen and clarify the matter as much as possible. When one gives up his life, this is a high level of faith and faith, and we must learn from this that those who give their lives rely on us and believe that after they have invested their whole lives, we will continue to live for the great ideals on which they have given their lives! “