Rabanit Yemima Mizrachi Responds to Jerusalem Daycare Horror

Popular speaker and influencer Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi has moved thousands across social media with a heartbreaking response to the Jerusalem daycare disaster, in which two toddlers lost their lives on Monday.

Writing against the backdrop of the upcoming month of Shevat and the Tu Bishvat holiday, traditionally celebrated as the New Year for Trees, the Rabbanit published a post titled *"On the fruit that had not yet ripened and was gathered."

"How much I wanted yesterday to teach a happy class in honor of the month of Shevat," Mizrachi wrote. "I wanted to talk about the family tree, about fruit, the fruit of the womb. And then the terribly hard news arrived: two sweet, soft fruits, Lia Goloventzitz and Aharon Katz, soft fruits that did not get the chance to ripen and were gathered up."

Mizrachi then turned her focus to the agonizing reality of working mothers in Israel.

"I just think about the fact that there is no mother, no mother in the world, who wants to deposit her baby with someone else at the end of three months from birth and go out to work," she wrote. "I remember well the tears in the throat... the breathless run at the end of a workday, just to hold him in my arms again."

Addressing the grieving families and mothers everywhere as "Heroic Mothers" and "Mother Earth," she concluded her post with a simple, devastating prayer that resonated across the internet:

"How shall I bless you? That your fruits be sweet? They are already so sweet! Rather, may it be God's will that all your fruits simply be. That they simply be there when you come to pick them up. I have no other blessing."