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Israeli Man taken Captive at war - What Saved Him?

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The man's son told me the story this morning. There was a man, his name was Charlie. When he was 18, he started doing Shnayim Mikra v'Echad Targum. He lived in Syria. He then moved to Israel. When he was 44 years old, somehow the terrorists captured He was taken as a captive and he was dropped to literally the bottom of an empty well on a Wednesday. They gave him a little bit of bread each day, a drop of water that he actually used for netilat yadayim, and he stood there dying. It was Friday afternoon and Charlie called out, "Hashem!" He said, "Hashem, you made a promise that any person that reads Shnayim Mikra v'Echad Targum, "arichim lo yamav ushnotav", he gets long life. I'm sitting here in the bottom of an empty well and I'm dying and I'm not going to have a chance to say Shnayim Mikra this week. It's Friday." The son told me, "Within an hour, he was saved." Within an hour, he was taken out of the hole, he was taken out of this hole. Charlie lives in America today, he's 84 years old. Still hasn't missed Shnayim Mikra v'Echad Targum every single week.