Some people work in offices, clocking in an eight or nine-hour day.

Rabbi Menachem Kutner, head of the Chabad-Lubavitch Terror Victims Project in Israel spends much of his time commuting from the central village of Kfar Chabad to visit a host of victims in hospitals and homes across the country.

He spent Thursday visiting those injured in Wednesday’s bombing of a central Jerusalem bus stop.

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Standing in the corridor of the capital’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, Kutner took a few minutes from visiting with victims’ families to explain what his organization will do for these latest casualties of terror. Accompanied by a social worker from Israel’s National Insurance Institute, he said one of the first steps is to figure out who is eligible for which government services and what they need financially, emotionally and spiritually.

But in addition to navigating the bureaucracy of social services, Kutner said spiritual and emotional first aid was paramount.

“We are taking the Hebrew name and mother’s Hebrew name from every person,” he said. “Tonight, I will sit down at the computer and send all these names to every Chabad House throughout the world to pray for them and thinking about them. It’s a way to support them, and strengthen them in their time of crisis.

“It helps them so much,” he observed. “What we can do for them at this point, in the very initial stages, is to pray for them.”

Kutner described his meeting with the father of one young man who suffered a severe head injury in Wednesday’s bombing.

“He just came out of surgery, and we won’t know for at least several days if or how his brain has been affected by the wound,” the rabbi related. “This father is seeking a way to find faith. For him, the thought of tens of thousands of Jews praying for the well-being and recovery of his son is immense.”

But for many, the most difficult of challenges comes after that first few days, when the realization of being a victim of a terror attack sinks in. Rage is a common emotion.

“I explain to them that the terrorists were targeting them not because they were David or Steven or Rachel. It wasn’t personal in that sense,” said Kutner. “It’s because he or she is a Jew, living in Israel, and the terrorists are filled with hate.

“But we are all one – every Jew is a brother or sister to the next – and thousands upon thousands of their family members are out there now, praying for their recovery.”

Because many victims and their families are poor, the Chabad Terror Victims Project follows up with physical assistance.

“Whatever they need and can’t get through the system, we provide through our organization,” said Kutner. “This is our work, day and night. There are no office hours.”