These people perceived a weakness in the Jewish people, and that is why they attacked. But this only awakened the hidden powers within each one of us.

This was an attack against every Jewish man, woman, and child. All of our mitzvahs are needed.

All those who have been privileged to risk their lives in defense of the Jewish nation are pure, righteous souls.

With our unity and with those hidden powers, we will prevail.

-assembled from statements of the Rebbe over the course of the Yom Kippur War.