A Perspective on the Current Times - Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier

I would like to share with you a perspective on the current times there's an awful lot going on an awful lot of questions that we need to ask that we should ask and what I'd like to do is step back step back to 35,000 ft and view this from a historical perspective and try to put the current situation in a much more clearly defined light and to do that I'd like to begin with aish mosu in his very last address to the gives him gives him words of and these are his words why didn't you study the ways of History you should have studied generation to generation ask your father and he'll tell you the elders will explain to you the p is saying study history M says you should have studied history you should have seen what happened generation after generation had you seen that you would have learned the great lesson lesson but the PK doesn't explain to us what that lesson is Rashi on that PK does tell us what that lesson is being means you should have studied history and you should have studied what happens generation after generation and you would have seen the hand of Hashem you'd have seen the hand of Hashem guiding his people directing his people and from that you would have recognized that hem has the power to redeem his Nation to bring his Nation to the time of mashiah and to bring you to the world to come your floor was you didn't study history you didn't pay attention and this Rashi seems to tell us that when one studies history he'll see a tremendous lesson of hashem's guidance hashem's helping the Jewish Nation the only problem with this Rashi is that quite the opposite seems to be correct if you study Jewish history it's very difficult to find a generation that didn't suffer immense pain torture Affliction it's very diff difficult to find a time that we weren't oppressed that we weren't killed that weren't expelled so what does Rashi mean if you studied history you'll see the Yem if anything Jewish history seems to be a question on Hashem and yet Rashi tells us the greatest and to understand this Rashi we need a perspective and to begin this perspective let me share with you a story Adolf Hitler began his rise to power by speaking in the beer pubs in Bavaria small groups 100 200 people would be gathered there and they would stand up and rant and Rave an hour and end the problem with Germany is the Jews it's either the Fatherland or the Jews and I choose the Fatherland on and on and on he would rant at one such meeting in the back of the room is an elderly man clearly Jewish and when Hitler's finished his speech the audience leaps to its feet applauds and this old man joins in them in Applause and Hitler notices this and Hitler goes over to this older man and says don't you think I meant when I said that I will make Germany UD and Ry don't you think I meant to destroy the Jewish nation and the old man looks at Hitler says oh I assumed you were serious but you have to remember we're an old people thousands of years ago there was an evil king Pharaoh when he enslaved our people God saved us from him and in honor of that we have the beautiful holiday of Passover the F family gets together for 8 days Along Came humman an evil King when he tried to kill us God saved us from him in honor of that we have the beautiful holiday of purm f festivities marry making Along Came the Greek syrians and when God Saves us from them we have the holiday of Kaneka but you Hitler you hate us more than all of them when God Saves us from you what a holiday there'll be there is no celebration there are no holidays that Mark the Sal ation of the Jewish people from the Third Reich but despite the fact that it was the greatest attempt of any organized systematic modern apparatus to destroy this nation the most powerful force in Earth at its time nevertheless the Jewish people are still here and the Third Reich isn't and it's quite interesting because we are an old people and for the past 2,000 years we've suffered through Crusade Spanish inquisitions blood lials programs persecution mass murders gassing there's no shortage of creativity when it comes to killing Jews find me a method of torture know full well it was used on the Jews find me a way to kill another man know it was well used on the Jews who were stabbed shot hung Club burned gassed to death beaten to death and yet we are still here we are still here and the ironic question is where are our ancient enemies where where is the great powerful Egyptian Dynasty today where is the Persian Empire where are the Greek syrians all of the great powers of the earth Rose to shine in their might when they were in the height of their Glory they Rose against the Jews attempted to kill them they vanished from the face of history and the Jewish people alone of all the ancient people are still around telling the tail and in fact we do have a holiday called pesak because hasem saved us from the Egyptians we have a holiday called purm because hasem saved us from hum and we have a khaka because hasem saved us from the G Greek yonim and this simple reality that every nation seems to rise against us and every nation does its best and they pass through the dust of history and the Jewish nation is still around to talk about it and I believe if you'd like to see the Yem all you have to do is study this strange phenomena this one lone sheep among 70 Wolves and the wolves attack and attack generation after generation and there's no end and yet somehow the Sheep survives the wolves are no longer there they're no longer telling the Tale But the Sheep survives exile to Exile send from continent to continent and yet he remains and if you'd like to see the Yem I believe all you have to do is study Jewish history because when you study Jewish history what you you see is Hashem guiding his people generation after generation always leading them the land in a particular area and they're foreigners and they begin reaffirming their Judaism they learned Torah they begin flourishing they become stronger and stronger and they rise to prominence and when they reach prominence they begin building the society in which they live they become Chief economists Chief innovators they become powerful and then they begin assimilating and become the next Generation starts adopting the Gentile ways another generation another generation and then a powerful wind comes and sweeps them out and they land on another Shore and then as foreigners again they reattach themselves to Torah they begin growing they begin flourishing and then they become very very Central in that new Society they become contributing members leading members they become more powerful and suddenly the Next Generation starts assimilating Next Generation forther Su for further still and a new wind comes and sweeps them out says the M that is Jewish history Hashem guiding his people always keeping them distinct always keeping them as an a chosen Nation distinct and different from the Gentiles amongst whom they live and if you like to see theem I believe that's exactly the point study Jewish history but maybe you'll say that's my perspective I'm a Jew maybe that's our perspective because we're bias with prejudice I'd like to share with you some quotes from secular historians who have no religious bias whatsoever who looked at history with a very clear objective sense and let's begin the Jewish dispersion by linski and these are his words for 19900 years from the destruction of the second temple to the establishment of the modern state of Israel the Jewish people have wandered literally around the world this wandering was usually precipitated by intolerable spiritual or physical persecution the scope of the Jews 1900 years Exile is reflected in the lands from which they were in Mass expelled and now he's going to tell us the lands from which we were expelled for example in third Century they were expelled from cage North Africa fifth century from Alexandria sixth from France seventh from the Catholic Empire ninth from Italy 11th from Main's France Germany Switzerland 14th from switzland Hungary Germany 15 from Austria Spain Lithuania Portugal Germany Papal States in Netherland Ukraine Lithuania it reads like a world atlas in fact if you'd like to understand Jewish history I'll give you a little challenge go on a nice Sunday morning to the United Nations building and outside you'll see all the flags furling in the wind I challenge you to find me a flag of a nation that didn't kick us out and the only flag you'll find either there were no Jews there at the time or the nation didn't exist because we were expelled and mass killed murdered gas by every single nation in which we found ourselves and this is history let me share with you another quote Leo tolto not a Jewish perspective at all he wrote an article called what is the Jew what is a Jew this is not as strange a question as it first appear to be come let us contemplate what kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers and all the nations of the world have disgraced and crushed expelled and destroyed persecuted burned and drowned and who despite their anger and their Fury continues to live and flourish what is this Jew who they never succeed in enticing with all the enticements in the world whose oppressors and persecutors only suggest that he deny his religion and he never does the Jew is the symbol of Eternity they will never be able to destroy the Jew the blood blath nor fiction nor fire nor sword the Jew is eternal he is the embodiment of of Eternity my friends these are not the words of a gamorra these are not a Reon these are the words of a secular historian defining this unique phenomena this inexplicable reality and I'll show you one more one more example of a secular historian's perspective John deil French author he wrote in the latter part of the 19th century in essence the Jewish people chuckle at all forms of anti-Semitism think all you want on not be able to find one form of brutality or strategy that has not been used in Warfare against the Jewish people I cannot be defeated says Judaism all that you attempt to do to me today has been attempted 3,200 years ago in Egypt then the Babylonians and the Persians afterward the Romans and others and others there's no question that the Jew will outlive us all this is an eternal people and these are his concluding words this is an exalted and chosen people and my friends these are words not of Jewish people not of rabbis this is the perspective of a historian from a secular vantage point and let me share with you one more observation the final words of Adolf Hitler in 1945 when he's in the bunker deep underground and Germany clearly has lost the war and he knows this is his last moment he gets on the airwav before he commits suicide and he leaves his final address to the people and these are his words above all I charge the leaders of the nation and those under them to the scrupulous observance of the laws of race and to the merciless opposition to the universal poison of all people's International jewelry and then he took his life the Third Reich was supposed to last at least 1,000 years where is it today and yet we somehow are still here still learning our Torah still keeping our ways still maintaining that who we were and that who will we will be have Ronis and IIT and his sitter writes that when a secular person when an atheist will study Jewish history he should fall on his face and say this is incredible this is amazing this is inexplicable it is a miracle and then R goes on to say one more step if you were at K yamu imagine you're standing then the sea splits into 12 separate parts hundreds of feet down walls straight up the enemy chases you're in there and they chase you down they see the miracle you see them drown you see them destroyed say iitz if you study Jewish history you'll see a miracle of far greater proportions far more obvious and far more impactful than seeing the splitting of the sea and my friends I believe that's exactly the answer to this rashi rashi is saying zaros study history look what happens generation after generation they rise upon us they try to kill us but they don't succeed Hashem saves us brings us from Shore to Shore this is a unique people a people with a mission a people with a purpose a people have a destiny study says Rashi when you study Jewish history you'll see the might of our creator you'll see the fact that he has the capacity to bring us to the times of mhia and to the world to come and I believe this is a very powerful perspective for our times because you see we are living in rather miraculous times and if you'd like to see the biggest Miracle maybe that even out shines that one look at the simple reality that Israel exists today after 1900 years of Exile the Jewish Nation finds himself back in our own land a land that we left almost 2,000 years ago and it's built up and so powerful that it Rivals any other city state maybe in the world certainly for its size well excels it by any means and if you'd like to see the miracle let's begin with a brief study of the history of Israel 1880 Mark Twain visits Palestine and he describes it he describes it as an a de Barren Wasteland there was nothing Tel Aviv was sand dunes yafa was a port you can't call it a port there was some some sticks of wood hanging out into the ocean people would park the boats next to and when you see in such a short amount of time a nation built up you're looking at something very very interesting but let's keep in mind probably the biggest aspect of the Nace on May 14th 1948 the state of Israel was declared the Arab world did not exactly welcome us into statehood they were not exactly celebrating my father was born in Berlin in 1922 he escaped Germany in 1938 and he spent the years of the war in England and he explained to me that when he read the papers that Israel has declared it St Ood he said everyone understood what was going to happen there was going to be another Holocaust 45 the World War II ended this was 3 years after there were 650,000 Jews living in what was now Israel surrounded by 50 million Arabs and May 14th 1948 the state of Israel is declared May 15th 1948 five mechanized modern armies converge and attack on Israel from all fronts not one front all fronts but if You' like to understand the miracle of the times understand one fact until May 14th Palestine was ruled by the British and it was a simple rule that the British had no Jew could own a gun if a Jew was found with a gun he was hung and there was no marching armies there was no Navy there no Air Force you had secret groups meeting ha undercover Gathering Together small little arms and if you'd like to know the odds of success let me share with you the words of AAP Pasha the Secretary General of the Arab League this will be a war of extermination and a monumentous massacre he announced Paul Johnson wrote a fantastic book called the history of the Jew and it's well worth reading he writes as follows May 14th 1948 the state of Israel was declared the entire Armament of Israel now he's going to tell us the full body of ammunition guns stores Rockets the entire Army of Israeli forces consisted of 17,600 rifles 2,700 St guns 1,000 machine guns 45,000 soldiers outmanned outnumbered five mechanized armies with Jeeps tanks howitzers artillery the Israelis had nothing they had nothing 45,000 Soldiers with a few arms and to give you a perspective on this let me share with you two stories anecdotes but true stories bedel was a small kibuts in the neiv and they knew that as soon as the state of Israel was going to be declared they'd be the first place to be hit because not far from them was an Egyptian Garrison and this Egyptian Garrison had 700 regular infantry they had Jeeps their tanks Howard's fully equipped army base and no sooner was war declared then the barrage of rockets began firing onto the kibuts the then came the tanks then came the Jeeps then came the troops and after one month a ceasefire was declared the kibutz was not overrun but would you like to know the amazing part and read Paul Johnson's book because he details this fact the entire Armament of the kibuts consisted of 12 rifles and two machine guns One More Story when I was a boy I read a book called the birth of the Israeli Air Force what was the Israeli Air Force there was no Air Force there were a couple of farmers who had Piper Cubs a Piper Cub is a small little plane basically a Go-Kart with a propeller in front of it it was used for dust cropping to to service the crops to put insecticide down and there were two two farmers who owned Piper Cubs and they said we're going to be the Air Force what they do it was a two-seater plane behind them they took the back seat out and behind them they put a box of grenades the pilot would fly low hold the steering wheel one hand with the other hand take the grenade pull the pin out fly low over the troops drop it grenade after grenade and they were very effective the story is told that he goes for one flight another flight another flight when he comes back he says fill up the grenades I want to go back out and the fellow says there no grenades left there's no arms they had nothing had no grenades left so the pilot thinks and says okay get me a case of soda bottles what get me a case of soda bottles they put a case of soda bottles behind him he flies down low behind the Egyptian lines he drops the soda bottle it hits the ground explodes the Egyptians hear the noise see the plane they run and he chased away those Egyptians now those are nice stories but they read like fables in the real world the Mighty Wind the better arm is the Victor and in the real world that we live in there's no way that this tiny sliver of Israel a state the size of New Jersey could possibly win that war but not only did they win that war they won again in 56 67 73 and even now ongoing hatred and conflict but you have to remember something at this point you understand there's not a single Arab nation that dares to attack Israel why because they became jeo favor they became Jew lovers uh-uh it's because they understand they're so outman so out guned by Israel Israel can take every single one of its enemies as well as collectively all of them together and put it in its back pocket and the reason why Egypt made peace with Israel the reason why Saudi Arabia is interested in peace is because they recognize they're not going to destroy it they can't win those Wars and yet somehow Hashem manages to arrange that we still have enemies who cause us a lot lot of issues a lot of grief but when you read these stories again and again you begin to get an interesting perspective and let me share with you that perspective is an article in the miv magazine newspaper miv is a secular Israeli newspaper and this is entitled April 17th 1983 they say is this how things really happened just as we're told in history books 650,000 Jews escaped the hor of the second world war and the cruel struggle with the oppressive British did they really build up the whole infantry of their own efforts did 650,000 Jews create a nation state from emptiness and desolation fight off five mechanized armies 5% of the Jewish people by all logic and by all reason everything that happened in 1948 is in the category of impossible it was impossible for the Jews to win it was impossible to bring the public service into operation from nothing impossible to establish a military industry from its Beginnings to sustain supplies and mineral services on and on looking back on the state of Israel a secular Israeli newspaper defines it as miraculous and I believe when you study this strange phenomena called the existence of Israel as a people and OT still the existence of Israel now as a state in its back in its own land you see a miracle of incredible proportions but there's another step that I'd like to share with you it is true that Adolf Hitler only succeeded in killing out onethird of the Jewish people but he did succeed in killing out the entire Torah Nation gone were all the great yeshivas of Poland gone were all the Torah centers of Russia gone was the base Med in every street corner if you came to America in 1945 you would have seen a Barren Wasteland of spirit spirituality for decades now the Jews would come over on the boat they shave the pis and the beard drop the tilling overboard and America was the golden Medina the golden Melting Pot and an intelligent assessment of Torah in 1945 would have said it is impossible Torah is dead in America at the time of mosha Feinstein had a small fledgling Yeshiva on the lower side 20 men around the table rjj about the the same size lake with raron had a tiny Yesa my father learned in RAR Yesa in the early days and the story is told that one of the fine balat one of R aon's supporters heard that the rash was building a new building had plans to build a new building and he came to RAR and says rashash Shiva what in the world do you need such a large building for why there's room for 200 guys to sit in that building what in the world do you need such a building for my friends today they're not 200 people learning in Lakewood 9,000 fulltime learning Torah Mir sham the same go to any Street Corner in Brooklyn Yeshiva flourish K's flourish Torah flourishes today as it never did before the great yeshivas of Sur Pisa we outshout them there's more full-time learning today than there was ever in the course of our history and not only hasn't Torah died quite the opposite and has flourished it has succeeded and this alone is one of the greatest Miracles this alone is one of the most incredible features that you've ever seen but there's another step if you're over the age of bar mitzah you put on Fillin every day the same Fillin that either Rashi or TOA put on the same filling that Bashi and Bill put on the same filling that moshim war with the 10 that are not written in the Torah because they're they given over the S you wear the same stits light the same candles keep the same in hog keep the same kous as did our four fathers thousands of years ago and we still argue in the same and if you'd like to understand why that is not just unique and not just incredible but in the realm of miraculous I'll share with you one simple observ I was a rebi in Rochester New York for about 12 years and often I would take the children to Indian reservations around Rochester and there you'd see the Indians in the full Regala the headdress moccasins the deer skin and they would do exhibitions they would show what Indian life was like I challenge you today to find me a Native American in the full Regala of the American Indian find me an Indian wearing the headdress find me an Indian wearing the moccasins find an Indian wearing buck skin why don't they dress that way even on the reservations they wear jeans and t-shirt why because that's the way of the world you assimilate you blend in whatever the culture is That's what everyone adopts and everyone becomes part of it and for one nation to remain unique to remain separate to keep the very same ways of its father over 1900 years of Destruction embarrassingly hated generation after generation expelled tortured murdered and yet they keep their ways with exactitude and precision you're watching a miracle that's incredible and unbelievable but there is one more step I live near what used to Bea and for many years I was very involved iniva and we had guys over regularly and I got a chance one chabas actually Min as I took three steps back and I looked up I watched the sun setting in the ear hole of the fellow in front of me he had an earring hole so big that I could watch SK I could watch a sun go down in that hole on the back of his neck tattoos on his hands tattoos this was a fellow who had come from very far few weeks later the earring hole is sewed up few weeks after that some of the tattoos are starting to he's getting laser treatment removed a few months after that he's wearing a doing jacket you know what a doing jacket is it's an old jacket that you put on the floor put a footprint right in the center of it put it on that's that's what he's wearing to Davin and two years after that he gets engaged to a fine bashak of girl and I told my son you must come with me I want you to witness the scene this is a fellow whose grandmother did no no longer lit shabas candles and then he comes back and when you see thousands upon thousands of B Chua coming from such distant places some Far Away when you see a Revival of this nation when you see them reaffirming themselves you're looking at something miraculous my friends we are living in very very incredible times never in the course of history has a nation been expelled murdered tortured and remains alive despite all of its enemies no longer being here never in the course of history does a nation leave its Homeland for almost 2,000 years and then goes back and rebuilds its Homeland against such odds such oppression and builds it up to be such a powerful glorious and beautiful place that it is today never in the course of history does a nation keep its ways and its minhagim and exactitude of ways of doing things and never in the course of history has it been the type of B Chua Movement we currently see if you like to understand what all that these point to it should be rather obvious and that is we are on the cusp of mhia coming it should be clear to any one with eyes to see we are living in those very very last moments exactly when I don't know you don't know it's job of a Novi but it is very clear that all the signs of Messiah coming are right here and if you're not yet convinced let me share with you one more step 10 days ago I would have told you and I believe anyone with a good sense of perspective would have told you that we as a nation are on the verge of of a civil war if you understand the divide in Israel between the left and the religious and the secular it looked like it was going to be a civil war a destruction of the society and destruction of the way of life it would have been over and yet a mere three days after that and certainly now there's a unity and all the reservist who said I'm quitting the IDF I will not be a part of this religious takeover they rejoin and everyone has put away their agenda and everyone is joined together the unity is incredible in my lifetime I've never seen this togetherness this Aus it is incredible it is beautiful and while Hamas has a mighty mighty heavy price to pay we also owe them a debt of gratitude that is incredible because our nation has been saved and it was a very heavy price to pay and they will pay that price in mem but the simple reality is it's one more step along the path one more step along the way when you study Jewish history rash is explaining to us you'll see the hand of Hashem you'll see the hand of hasem guiding these people protecting these people this people has a mission and anytime they're going to slip off Hashem says okay I'm going to take care of the problem and he sends a powerful wind and that wind expels them and they go to another Shore that's Queen Isabella whether it's the Crusades they're tortured they're oppressed and in their foreign land they rebuild they rebuild and they ref flourish and they keep the old ways they rise again and what you're watching is a nation on a mission a nation with a purpose a nation that will soon be redeemed when mhia comes and every step along the way it becomes more and more clear to see such a hatred of Gentiles that makes no sense that's inexplicable go to memory go to Palestinian Media Watch and see seven-year-old children 5-year-old children mouthing the words I'm going to be a martyr I'm martyr number 7,342 they sing songs Mickey Mouse songs have camps 65,000 children this summer were in Gaza Camp very nice un sponsored paid for by the UN what do they learn in these camps well what they learn is Warfare how to hate Jews how to chant against Jews and you can watch the videos you watch them bragging they March in I'm martyr number 1,34 thought behind I'm martyr number two I'm Marty number I'm martyr and they brag about their friends who killed themselves and they brag about themselves wanting to die and watch memory go on m e RMR memory on don't go on the internet but if you do go to memory and you'll see what they do is they take the Palestinian videos and they translate that so you understand what's being spoken about and I've seen this quite a number of times the conversation between two Palestinian men well-dressed articulate and one says to the other these Israelis these Jews they're such fools they love life we Palestinians we love death we love nothing more than dying for our homeland that's what every Palestinian mother lives for for her child to die to be a martyr these fool Israelis they love life we Palestinians love death my friends that is rather peculiar it is inexplicable and according to the ways of the world it makes no sense because these are not deeply religious Fanatics even they are fanatics but not from a Muslim basis that hatred is something that Hashem excites hasem blows winds because that's what this nation needs at this point our enemy is an extraordinarily inexplicable phenomena and they must be eradicated because the hatred is so vinous so permeating the essence of them when you're dealing with an entire generation remember Hitler was somewhat influential over the 30y olds the real danger was the Hitler Youth when you're 12 years old and you're indoctrinated and all you know is MC and all you know is the Fatherland you be become a robot programmed to the agenda when you deal with a nation there 50% of the Palestinians today are youth and they're indoctrinated they're encultured obviously not everyone is a terrorist not everyone is an extremist but this is the culture Hamas rules and this is the culture this is what's on TV this is what's in the schooling this is what the clerics teach and this is the lay of the land such a nation doesn't make sense but Hashem excites those winds those winds because that's what we need and the next step has to be obviously destroy them may Hashem grant that it be done from the air because you don't want to engage in Mortal Kombat going in house to house there my friends there are two very different perspectives I believe we should have on these times one is and you excuse me for saying it at this very moment a sense of Celebration a sense of this is miraculous I see the Jewish people the Eternal people going on their way continuing in their ways Hashem guiding them one step closer almost at the point almost at mhia coming right there and there should be a sense of anticipation and joy but the also should be a sense of trepidation because when the IDE of goes in R hopefully they won't have to go in but if they have to go in fighting house toh house Urban Warfare every house being BBA trapped every one of your enemies willing to die wanting to die it's going to be gruesome and it's a horrific thought and therefore we should be filled with trepidation with fear because we are as a nation we are in trouble the Jewish Nation will live on forever but not every individual in nation has such a guarantee and every one of us has a certain level of danger but nevertheless I believe both feelings should be the sense of of perspective of a national Pro National sense of Hashem is guiding us we are the chosen Nation the exalted Nation the only nation of Hashem and Hashem is leading us every step of the way and we are almost at the cusp almost at the point of mhia finally redeeming us Hashem finally revealing himself and the whole world will see the Folly of their ways the Holiness of the Jewish people but at the same time we should have that sense of Celebration sense of anticipation we also have to have a sense of dread because we are in Mortal Danger we are in Mortal danger and it's very scary times and I'd like to finish with one last observation and that is as you're well aware from Gaza there are many missiles that have been fired since the beginning of this war less than 10 days ago 6,000 missiles have been fired from Gaza to Israel many times under 10 km many times within 2 km and while it's true that the Iron Dome is quite effective and very impressive the Iron Dome shoots down between 90 sometimes 97% of the missiles that are shot what that means in plain language is there are about 300 to 500 missiles that should have landed on populated centers and by all natural accounts this should be thousands maybe tens of thousands of dead Israelis do you understand what 300 missile 300 Rockets landing on population centers means the destruction the devastation is beyond description yet interestingly enough there are some casualties but a minuscule amount a tiny amount and G the question is why for some inexplicable reason these missiles seem to miss they're fired and they land in open areas they fired right directly close to population centers and they land off Target it and it's very hard to explain and a Hamas Commander was asked the question a 4-year-old can aim better what's with you guys and listen to his words he said these words we do aim our Rockets but their God that changes their path in midair and if that doesn't convince you yet listen to the words of a secular Israeli who was a commander of an Iron Dome Battalion and he explains that the Iron Dome is is very sophisticated from the moment the rocket is launched from Gaza it begins tracking it it'll tell you the trajectory tell you the speed tell you within 200 M exactly where that missile will land now keep in mind every intercepted missile is quite expensive $60,000 to $100,000 so they use them very guardedly in any case this Commander saw a missile that was launched from Gaza that was going to land right in Tel Aviv in the train Center and this was a heavily populated area and there was no way there'd be enough time to get people out of that area so he quickly told the battery fire and intercept the missile they fire an interceptable missile at the incoming missile and it missed fire a second one the second one missed this was very rare it's very rare to have two misses fire a third and the third missed and he said to himself he realized he has 4 seconds 4 seconds till this missile is going to land on the central rail station in Tel Aviv he quickly sent out a M to emergency medical personnel get to the scene they're going to be hundreds thousands of casualties get there quick and then he says he's watching on the screen watching on the monitor the missiles path is this way suddenly somehow a powerful Eastern wind comes blows the missile off course and it lands in the sea and he screams out there's a God there's a God there's a God in the world when you see the Redemption of the Jewish people when you see the Salvation when you see open miracles you have to say I get it Hashem has a plan we're UT close very close we don't understand exactly I don't understand the intricacies we know the message we know our mission we know the plan May hasem redeem us imly may mhia come immediately I mean not a single other Jewish casualty another single drop of more Jewish blood be spilled