To thank Hashem, Who had soaked the grounds in preparation for this very day
Less than 24 hours after the girls’ season ended, Nageela was readying itself for the boys’ session when a devastating three-alarm fire broke out at 4:30 a.m. The flames engulfed a wooden structure, reducing it to a pile of ash in a matter of minutes. Firefighters battled the flames and finally got it under control, preventing it from spreading further. B’chasdei Hashem, no one was injured in the conflagration, and no valuables were lost.
Upon conferring with the firefighters, the head staff members realized just how prescient their designation of the torrential downpours as “gishmei brachah” was. The officials relayed that normally, a fire of that magnitude would spread to the entire campus in a matter of minutes, but as the ground was so thoroughly saturated with the rains of the prior two weeks, they were able to keep it contained it to just that building. A grateful staff thanked the fire department for their efforts — and then turned to thank Hashem, Who had soaked the grounds in preparation for this very day.
At the “Klal Yisroel Shul” in Woodburne, New York, Rav Mordechai Jungreis greets every mispallel with a heartfelt brachah, placing his hands on each one’s head as he does so, and wishing them well. Here, with his tallis glistening in the first rays of the early morning sun, the Rebbe greets yet another mispallel grateful to receive one of the thousands of brachos that will be dispensed that day.
Thousands converged upon Har Hazeisim in Jerusalem on Sunday, 15 Tammuz, to gather at the kever of the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh on his 281st yahrtzeit.
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