Saved at the Last Minute from Intermarriage, He Does Teshuvah and Releases His Debut Single. Listen

Lidor Amira was born on Moshav Yatzitz near Rechovot and raised in a traditional home. “We did not keep Shabbos, but we believed in G-d,” he recalls. “We would make Kiddush on Friday night, fast on Yom Kippur, keep basic kashrus, but nothing more.”

His life path was classic Israeli, until one day when everything changed. “I was serving as a combat soldier in the IDF Paratroops when I met this young woman. We really hit it off and within a few months were planning our wedding. Then I learned that she’d been hiding something very fundamental from me, that she was a gentile, a member of the missionary cult ‘Messianic Jews.’

“By the time I found out, I felt it was too late to do anything about it. Though I knew intellectually that as a Jew I couldn’t marry a Christian or adopt Christianity, my emotions had taken control of me. I agreed to go ahead with the marriage, and, to my great sorrow, even considered converting. I felt there was no way out.

“What saved me was a Chabad chassid who, by Divine providence, arrived at my base to lay tefillin for soldiers. I saw him as a spiritual figure and decided on the spur of the moment to approach him and tell him my story.

“The Chabadnik hugged me and said: ‘Don’t worry, I have someone who will help you.’ He referred me to Yad L’Achim and a few hours later, Rabbi Yoav-Zeev Robinson contacted me.

“The very next day we met in a cafe and Rabbi Yoav explained to me the dangers of intermarriage and the misery that I would subject my children to, being torn between religions. Most importantly, he made me aware that there were many Jews in my situation who, thank G-d, had managed to come out of it and eventually built happy Jewish homes.”

Indeed, with the close guidance of Yad L’Achim, Lidor cut all ties with the gentile world and within two years had established a Jewish home. “I was able, thank G-d, to fully do teshuvah. Today, I lead a religious life, which includes observing mitzvos and learning Torah daily, and I am happy and content with my new path,” he attests.

Lidor lives in Lod and recently decided to fulfill an old dream: Music!

“I was always writing songs. For as long as I can remember, this was my way of dealing with life and letting go. During my time in the army, I neglected music, and in the years that followed, when establishing a family, I didn’t have time for it. But the old dream of breaking out in the music world always burned inside me.”

These days, Lidor is realizing his dream, having come out with his first single, which he wrote and composed. Naaman Tal handled the arrangement and musical production.

“I wrote the lyrics which symbolize for me the closing of the circle of returning to our Father in Heaven. The song is a parable of G-d’s love for His people, and describes the special connection that each and every Jew has with G-d and also with Am Yisrael in general. The meaning I gave to the verse ‘Will two walk together unless they are destined?’ (Amos 3, 3) is that the ‘two’ refers to the people of Israel and G-d, who were destined for each other and have walked together throughout history until this very day. G-d always protects us and does not allow us to perish, chas v’shalom. We will always be faithful to Him and be His people and the sheep of His pasture, and He will shower us with grace and mercy.”

Lyrics:

The morning began with Tefillah

He asked that the Divine Presence return

Just to merit to welcome His Countenance with joy

Like a bride on the day of her wedding

A man sets out to his activity

To his work until evening

But he always remembers the truth and does not give up

He will still merit and see in its joy

Chorus:

Will two walk together, will two walk together unless they were destined?

Will two walk together, will two walk together unless they were destined?

Verse 2:

And the dawn slowly rises

The morning will soon shine

We already merit to see children playing

In the streets of Yerushalayim

And there are no words to describe

How gradually everything becomes clearer

The nation that lives on its land

Merits to see it in its joy.