Hey guys, it's Kathy Heller. Welcome back to the Kathy Heller podcast. So today is supposed

to be a big celebration on this podcast because we're celebrating 800 episodes and it's huge.

You know, it's something that I really wanted to mark and we do have a whole episode planned

for you, but I would be remiss if I didn't tell you that my heart is completely shattered

right now. And I know that many of you have been watching what's been happening in Israel

and the absolute massacre and torture. It's something I just don't have words for, but I have

not slept. It actually started. We were at a friend's house for Shabbat dinner and these are

very good friends who happened to also be Israeli and they got a call that there were rocket attacks

and we've seen that before and we went to turn on the news and we saw something we hadn't seen

before, which is terrorists going into people's homes. And we knew this was going to escalate

and we knew that this was something unprecedented and I'm doing everything my power not to

break into tears right now so that I can be coherent. So bear with me, but I have family there

I have friends there and I have never seen anything like this. There are hundreds of women

that were raped. This terrorist organization is a vile misogynistic, despicable terrorist

organization of Hamas and Iran has already came out to say that they were planning this with them

and we know what has been happening in Iran and the torture of women so we know what is going on

with Hamas. Hamas is like the Taliban, it's like ISIS and it's so horrifying they have kidnapped

children, they have kidnapped elderly, they slaughtered 700 people murdered and in addition to

holding over 150 or 200 people hostage and it's just the most horrific thing I've ever seen in my

lifetime and the death toll is climbing and they think it's going to be over a thousand or more

and several thousand people have been wounded so it is absolutely horrific. Last night we went to

a prayer service and one thing that was just so beautiful is that in this prayer service where we

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