A rare summary of a Torah lesson written by Yehudah Katz, one of the soldiers missing from the Battle of Sultan Yacoub whose remains were located after 44 years, reveals words he wrote in his youth about self-sacrifice, those who fall in war, and sanctification of God’s name.

The document is a summary Katz prepared of a lesson delivered by the late Rabbi Uzi Kalchaim in September 1979. In the lesson, Rabbi Kalchaim discussed the spiritual stature of those who were killed sanctifying God’s name and the spiritual obligations their deaths impose upon the living.

“No creature can stand in the presence of those who are killed for the sanctification of God’s name - they have reached a level of supreme abstinence," the lesson summary reads. “Those closest to the Holy One, blessed be He, are the holy ones who were killed for the sanctification of His name."

The summary later contains remarks explicitly addressing those who fall in war and the obligation that their self-sacrifice creates for those who remain alive.

“Those who fall in war through the sanctification of God’s name - this obligates us to change our way of life, and consequently, their influence will also be felt," Katz wrote in his summary of the lesson.

The words take on special significance now, following the discovery of Katz’s remains more than four decades after he went missing in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.

Katz was a student at the Kerem B’Yavneh Yeshiva and an armored corps soldier. In recent days, his friends and rabbis have described him as an outstanding young Torah scholar who devoted a significant portion of his time to Torah study and spiritual growth.