«This is a disaster»: a frank conversation with an Orthodox Jewish chaplain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — about the front, faith, and how not to lose a person — video

"There is a law, and it says: 'If someone comes to kill you — kill him first.' The most important part. Therefore, defending your country is a commandment of God. There is such a commandment: 'Do not cross the border.' It is written in the Torah, in the Bible, right? Therefore, those who came here grossly violated this commandment. And those who defend — this is the Armed Forces of Ukraine, these are the hands of God in Ukraine. And they fulfill the commandment: 'Do not kill, by destroying the enemy', - Yakov Sinyakov.

Video of the channel "Details" with Igor Sinyakov (also known as Rabbi Yakov) does not sound like an 'interview about religion'. Rather, it sounds like a conversation on the front line, where a person has no extra words, but has a habit of calling things directly. He talks about war as maximum chaos, about the army as order, about why neutrality in such times is not just a convenient pose, but a moral trap, and why memory is not a burden, but a tool for the future.

Rabbi Yakov is the first officially recognized Orthodox Jewish chaplain in the history of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the video, his path is described briefly and clearly: after February 24, 2022…

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