Today, our 19-year-old daughter completed her course and finished basic training in the Israeli army. And my heart is overflowing. Not with pride alone — though there is plenty of that — but with awe. Because what she chose was not easy. It was not comfortable. It was not safe or predictable. She stood at the edge of childhood and adulthood and said a word that echoes through our people’s history: Hineini. Here I am. Here I am — willing to wake before dawn. Here I am — willing to be tired, stret