If you watch any news on tv here, you know that they are very busy showing us the terrible conditions hostages live — and died — in.  The idea behind it is to put pressure on the government to remember that the sacredness of human life comes first in Judaism and it is sacrilege to forget that, but it is so horrendous it is breaking our broken hearts again and again.  I think that never in history has a people been so subject to psychological and physical torture.  Sure there was torture in ancient times too – but now you have to watch it as well. And for many, while you’re living in a tiny room, far from the home you built that is being bombed daily.