A sofer (or Judaica store owner) tells the story of returning to work after Simchas Torah and calling customers to pick up their orders of Tefillin when one order caught his eye – the customer was from Nir Oz.
He texted the customer, Renana Yaakov, to ask how she and her family were doing. She responded that her son, Yagil Yaakov, was taken hostage in Gaza, and he is supposed to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah in one and a half months.
While holding a tefillin bag embroidered with the name Yagil Yaakov, he tells how he felt awful and told her he would refund her order.
Renana responded, “Noam, you aren’t refunding me a penny. Yagil will come home and we’re going to make a big celebration. We’re going to need the Tefillin for his Bar Mitzvah.”
Today, Yagil Yaakov was released.
THANK YOU HASHEM!
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Mazel Tov Yagil, may your Bar Mitzvah be joyous and may that joy continue to increase every day.
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Yes, Please! Keep ’em coming!
Yes, please!
I believe his father is still in captivity
Yes, I love getting news from dd
Love it! Thanks for the chizuk. Keep em’ coming.
No, just deals
Where is the yiddishe hartz?
Yes
Yes please
What is the source that he was released, if you don’t mind my asking? This one hit me particularly hard because I have a bunch of students his age… I know there was a propaganda video of him released a few weeks ago but I can’t find anything (other than this article) confirming it.
He’s home BH confirmed.
https://twitter.com/N12News/status/1729228274532761614
Yeah, after I posted the comment above, I realized I was spelling his name slightly wrong in Google and when I corrected it, plenty of results came up. If a Go Fund Me is created to help him celebrate his Bar Mitzvah and/or cope with the horrors he endured, please post the link, I’d love to donate.
attn JJ I got confused. on the picture I see Yagel יגל.on the post your headline is The Story Of Yagil Yaakov (maybe יגיל) & also twice in the story.
please correct it.
What does it say on his tefilin bag?
Post more like these!!!
Someone in my house is cutting onions I think.
It’s not the onions, its the story!
Would love to see more, but they should not become a focus.
One of the beauties of DansDeals is that each ‘story post’ is really touching. With a regular media outlet, they need to pump out stories, so sometimes they over-amplify non-stories. When DansDeals posts such stories, however, they are always a bullseye hit.
This!
Keep posting stories, if/when there’s a story that deserves sharing
Absolutely! Tears of joy!
Wow put me to tears
Wow
Yes!
Yes
Please , only when they are something special
The humdrum, non stop news churning is 80 percent stupid fillers, and you don’t want to go there.
Your clientele are deals people, stick to your strengths, and you are good at nailing an occasional great piece.
Don’t get sucked into the group that is constantly in need of news pieces, that’s a world which churns out suckers by the wagonload.
This, exactly this!
I’m sure dan is most sincerely apologetic at disturbing your peace while looking to save 4 cents to inform you that a Jewish kid who was held by murderous terrorists for 50 days was freed.
Perhaps some perspective might be in order. Bad enough to think this is the right attitude. Worse to write it.
Chill bro. Dan asked a question, Franny responded.
Yes!
Dan, I love posts like these, but maybe you should have a way of keeping them separate
https://www.dansdeals.com/more/news/story-yagel-yaakov/
I like the Sunday news round ups, but there are so many other news outlets, don’t become another one of them, it will make dansdeal lose it’s unique flavor and authenticity.
It’s a really touching story, but I would preferred to keep the website, for Dan’s deals, and not for news
his father is still there…
…and will iy”H be by the Bar Mitzva!
Yes!
Please continue what you used to do- the weekly news roundups
yes please
I love your reporting/commentary and was a huge fan of the roundups. I understand that they are an enormous effort to put together. Really appreciate your sifting through the web for engaging stories that I otherwise wouldn’t be aware of!
Baruch Matir Assurim!!!
Yes! Great news!