He gets to the tunnel with the iron stick, huge iron stick,

and he hit me right to my head,

and then to my shoulder, my arms, my legs,

and was hitting me for, I think it was a week.

And with the iron stick, a week straight, four or five times a day.

After one month and a half, in 10th June,

I remember that I felt that I'm a broken vessel.

Even if they're going to teleporting me to my family right now, to my house, right now,

I'm never going to be a normal person anymore.

It's hard to say it, but I felt that they ripped my soul, completely ripped it.

They succeed.

And they felt like nothing left inside me anymore.

So I decided to do a ceremony, like goodbye ceremony, breaking up ceremony for myself,

from everything that I've been and for my family.

It was a very, very hard moment for me.

In this week's episode, we hear one of the most powerful survival stories of our time.

On October 7th, Omar Vinkart was kidnapped from Nova Music Festival and held hostage by Kamaas for 505 days,

including 197 days in total isolation underground. He endured starvation, physical and emotional

torture and hopelessness. Yet, he found Hashem. This conversation is raw, real, and deeply

human. Stay with us as Omar takes us inside his unimaginable journey from the horrors of captivity to the miracle of freedom. We've never gone this deep on a hostage episode before, but you will walk away so inspired. This episode is a memory of Shimon Dhabibindh bin Yaakov Shloyma, as well as Miriam Sarabas Yaakov Moshe. You'll hear from our awesome partners at Mosaic, Bip Bean, Wiels-Ale-Sleash, Woodman College, and United Fu Healshir. Oh, and one of my most favorite things ever was told to me right after recorded this episode by Omar's partner. And I will share that at the very end. Here we go. Omar Van Gart, so much to discuss. But first, let's go back to your childhood. What kind of childhood did you have? You grew up in Israel? Yeah, I grew up in Israel. Until seven years old, I live in in Rishon-Litsion. Actually, it's close to Tel Aviv. It's a big city. But when I was seven years old, in 2008, we moved to Gaderah.

It was a small town.

Now it's a bit bigger.

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