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In the month of Adar, we increase in rejoicing because that is when the miracle of Purim took place. The salvation on Purim did not solve all the problems of the Jews in Persia (which is why Hallel is not recited), but it was a miracle. "Nes" the Hebrew word for miracle is related to the Hebrew for a flag that is raised; a reminder that the overall picture is that reality is led by God and leads to the good and to salvation.
The release of the hostages is also a miracle; a flag that reminds us of the overall picture that terrorism is won by determined struggle, not through surrender; a flag that reminds us – despite some people's desperate desire to obscure this – that the overall picture is that we are defeating Hamas; a flag that reminds us that the overall picture is that in the long run the Jewish people are overcoming and growing security-wise, economically, socially and spiritually.
The sages say that "one who wants his assets to be preserved and protected from ruin should plant an eder tree among them, as it is written: "The Lord on high is mighty [adir]" (Psalms 93:4). Due to the similarity of the words eder and adir, this is understood to mean that the eder tree bestows permanence" (Beitza 15b). Anyone who wants to preserve their mental health and stay sane in the midst of the current tumultuous situation, should remember these signs which remind us of the overall picture that "the Lord on high is mighty".
The evil will pass
The good will prevail
With the help of God
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Rabbi Haggai Lundin
Family and Society There Will Not Be A Civil War!
(Told to the students of the Hesder Yeshiva in Holon)
Army and War "If Haredim Should Serve in the IDF, So Should You"
IDF Service for Young Jewish Men from America
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
