“There’s been a great awakening and an opening of the hearts, and I don’t want this opportunity to go to waste.  I see how great the people really are, and we are really one, deep inside, and we shouldn’t forget, we shouldn’t forget what we woke up to this week and keep the values straight.

“You know, don’t get sidetracked by everyday concerns and complaints – it’s not going this way – and remember what’s really important in life.  Remember to love your fellow man, remember to love your children, remember to love your wife or your husband, remember to love and to live with love.

“If everything is lived with love, it’s a labor of love, it becomes a pleasure.  If everything is a burden, if everything is a chore, then you’re not going to enjoy life.  You forget what life is about.  But if you do everything with love and everything is for the right cause, if everything, you know, you have patience, you know, you’ll be much happier and your children will be much greater.  I think, you know, people should not forget, and everything should be a labor of love.”  – Rav Gabriel Sassoon, responding to the international and interdenominational expression of love and grief in the wake of the overnight house fire that claimed the lives of seven of his children, aged five to sixteen, and critically injured his wife and remaining daughter

I transcribed Rav Sassoon’s remarks from an video interview posted on www.IsraelNationalNews.com.