Yona Assaraf: I Became Frum After Surviving the Nova Festival Massacre
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Yona Assaraf and her husband Roi's lifes changed when they miraculously made it out of the Nova Festival massacre alive on October 7th. Yona decided to cover her hair, throw out her pants, keep Shabbat and as a family - become Orthodox. This is their story.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm feeling guilty sometimes now like I know I had friends that there now and people like |
| 0:09.9 | continue their life I know that we need to continue our life but there is a people |
| 0:16.1 | that no food no you know it's very now I feel a little guilty I don't know I know I know I know I know I do the best I can right and praying and |
| 0:29.6 | like make me to vote and pray for them and every dealing for them, you know all what I can do. |
| 0:40.0 | Right. But I always see them in front of me, in front of my eyes. I always thinking about them. |
| 0:51.8 | The first weeks like there was a kid there. |
| 0:55.0 | On October 7th over 1,200 innocent people were killed in Israel. |
| 0:59.0 | 400 lives were taken at the Nova Festival, |
| 1:01.0 | place where they went to celebrate. |
| 1:03.8 | They were kidnapped, killed, and scared for the rest of life. |
| 1:07.6 | Yona and her husband, Royee, were at the festival. |
| 1:10.4 | This is their story on how they escaped, saw God, and changed their lives forever. |
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| 1:30.6 | a million dollars everyday twillery. This episode is a memory of |
| 1:34.3 | Shemin David bin Yaku Shlima and Miriam Sara bass Yaku of Mosha. Be sure to stick around |
| 1:39.2 | for my closing remarks. Here we go. I'm Yaku Langer and you're listening to Inspiration for the nation. |
| 1:47.0 | Yona, thank you so much for doing this and I appreciate you doing it because A it's not so easy to talk |
| 1:55.4 | about what you went through and also B English is a language that you only picked up |
| 2:00.6 | in the past like four months so could you take us back to your childhood, where you were born, what was your relationship with Judaism growing up? |
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