PERSPECTIVES → SECOND THOUGHTS Issue 1010 · May 8, 2024

Oblivious to the Obvious

Having felt the hand of G-d protecting His people and His land, can we simply go about our daily regimen as before?

Oblivious to the Obvious

 

And it came to pass, in the year 5784, that the enemies of Israel sent forth hundreds of deadly missiles, drones, and rockets toward Eretz Yisrael, and not a single one of them caused any harm.

Were we to read this passage in Tanach, we would undoubtedly regard it as just another one of those Biblical miracles that are wondrous, but have no relevance for us in our day.

And yet, this is precisely what happened — not in a Biblical event, but before our own eyes, on the night of 6 Nissan 5784, April 13, 2024.

Never in the history of warfare has it happened that all the hundreds of slings and arrows of bitter enemies should all fail to such an extent. Only in the Bible do such phenomena occur.

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