Simcha Greinman of Zaka: Israel’s Search & Rescue Team’s Traumatic Heroism
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The hardest job in the world is performed by Zaka. They've never faced a challenge like the October 7th massacre.
Simcha Greinman powerfully retells how Zaka didn't only help bury the civilians but even the Jewish people's worst enemies.
Founded in 1995, ZAKA is Israel’s dominant non-governmental rescue and recovery organization, with over 3,000 volunteers deployed around the country, on call 24/7 to respond to any terror attack, disaster or accident immediately, professionally and with the necessary equipment. ZAKA, a civilian volunteer organization with sole responsibility in Israel for dealing with incidents of unnatural death, works in close cooperation with all the emergency services and security forces.
Honoring the dead is considered an act of Chesed Shel Emes (true virtue). In Judaism, this is considered the greatest mitzva (good deed) that can be performed, because the recipient has no way of repaying the kindness.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you mean? |
| 0:03.4 | Said I have soldiers, police officers, and terror, civilians and terrorists. |
| 0:09.4 | Everything in the truck. The truck was like full from top to bottom with bodies. It's something that you can't |
| 0:16.7 | can't imagine. Took us three and a half hours just to empty out the truck putting in different divisions everybody to have them in the right place |
| 0:26.4 | three and a half hours and while you driving down the only thing that you hear from the guys with us is when are we going back? |
| 0:37.2 | That's the understanding. It's not like, okay, when am I going home taking a shower? No, when are we going back to the scenes? |
| 0:44.2 | Welcome back to another episode of Inspiration for the Nation. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm Yaku Langer, and this week I talked to one of the heads of Zaka |
| 0:50.3 | and talked to him about one of the most difficult jobs, |
| 0:52.8 | maybe the most difficult job on this planet. |
| 0:55.0 | Trigger warning, there are some sensitive topics |
| 0:58.5 | and conversations that we have in this week's episode. |
| 1:00.6 | Since October 7th, they have been at the scenes of Barry and all the places that were |
| 1:06.3 | where Hamas came and and murdered thousands of people and |
| 1:11.5 | Their job is to collect the bodies or the remains unfortunately of |
| 1:16.9 | anyone killed and when I say anyone it's not just the civilians they are also |
| 1:20.8 | faced with the terrorist bodies. |
| 1:23.6 | What do they do with them? |
| 1:24.6 | And this episode, I think is very powerful now |
| 1:26.9 | because we talk about the humanitarian ideas |
| 1:31.6 | and how truly good Israel is because we've been hearing so much hatred |
| 1:36.7 | and and just lies about Israel and I think it's important to hear firsthand |
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