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Your chizuk messages are so incredible. I send them to my kids and my family in chutz le'Aretz!
This latest one with the video of the Torah Ve Halocha kollel means so much to me as my two sons and son-in law learned there. In fact my son and son-in-law appear in the video. The Rav of the kollel, HaRav Avramovsky is a visionary! I call him 'The Magician'. He does so much for the bochurim that learn there. He simply believes in them so strongly, that they begin to truly believe in themselves. Rachel G.
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Miraculous salvation in Kfar Maimon
This out-of-this-world story was shared with me by the same reader as above, Rachel Kaufman, Ashdod. She heard it from R’ Forhman.
💭💭💭"Thank you for your Chazak Ve'Amatz posts. They really show the light in all the darkness around us. I would like to share with you the attached story about an amazing nes that took place in Kfar Maimon.
(Ladies, I put it in its entirety below, instead of as a link.)
In addition, as we know, as the IDF are advancing further into Gaza, they are bringing in more troops and the danger to our precious soldiers is increasing, so we must keep up our davening and Tehillim. Please remind and encourage everyone who signed up for the Daily Tehillim Around the Clock to maintain it diligently, especially our American friends who are awake and alert at those times when it is night here in E'Y.
Rachel continues and says: she heard this story from Rabbi Fohrman on his podcast (Link: this is a podcast link, not google drive so it will only work for those that can view these things.) Listen to the first 6 mins and you’ll hear him directly telling the story.
שנבשר ונתבשר בשורות טובות
Miraculous salvation in Kfar Maimon – A Heaven Sent Army
Rabbi Fohrman (founder of Aleph Beta Academy for teaching and disseminating Torah) was visiting evacuees from Kfar Maimon at a hotel in Israel. One of them told him how it happened that their settlement did not suffer any casualties, even though it is situated back to back with Be’eri and other settlements that came under attack and suffered bitterly on Shabbat Simchat Torah.
“We were in shul when we heard the sirens go off with incessant rocket attacks in the morning, and our Rav told us to go home, go into the safe room and turn on the radio. We learned that terrorists had infiltrated the communities. At the time we thought it was a few dozen and had no idea that it was an invasion of over 2000 Hamas terrorists. Although every settlement has a volunteer group to defend itself, for some inexplicable reason the army had taken away the guns from Kfar Maimon, so they literally were unarmed.
I created a plan with my 4 sons how to defend ourselves if terrorists come to the door. I took them into the kitchen and told them to each take the longest knife they could find and station themselves near the door. Maybe if one or two terrorists came in we would be able to overcome them and my wife and daughter would escape through the back door.
Meanwhile news was coming in that a band of 40 heavily armed terrorists was gathering outside the Yishuv and getting reading to blast their way in. We made an emergency call to the army to send us back-up right now. IDF replied, “We have no-one to send you”. All IDF forces were in pitch battle with terrorists in Be’eri, the next-door kibbutz.
At that point an army helicopter 🚁came overhead flying low on its way to Kibbutz Be’eri. The terrorists amassed at the gate saw the helicopter and sensed an opportunity. One of them fired an anti-tank missile at the helicopter. It brought the helicopter down, and the helicopter crashed to the ground but did not explode, (miracle one!) Instead, its doors opened and 25 IDF soldiers came pouring out and immediately took up positions as they saw these 40 terrorists. (Miracle 2!) (The helicopter exploded without harming anyone. Miracle 3!)
In the ensuing fierce gun battle which lasted 4 hours, the soldiers eliminated all 40 terrorists with no IDF casualties. (Miracle 4 -- and this is only the parts we "know" about!)
That is why I and my family are here to tell the story to you.”
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Tamar's note: HA! And here, this took me all week, because I thought I didn’t have “enough inspiring stuff” to send you a good chazak email! This is getting too long already!)
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There's a lot of pictures and clips and so forth (I'm SURE) flying all over the place of all the different hostages who were zoche to be released. I'm not going to share so many as this is for the news outlets to do instead.
But this one I just had to share. A nine year old boy!! B'H Ohad is back with Am Yisrael! And look at the chessed Hashem did for this boy while he was in captivity -- for reasons none of us will know, why this had to be - but even so, Hashem did for this boy a little bit like what Hashem did for Yosef Hatzaddik in the parsha this week...
The Torah relates that when Yosef was sold and being carted off to Egypt, with no one to care and no way to know if he'd ever see his father again...Hashem sweetened the blow a little bit for him and the caravans that transported Yosef were carrying sweet-smelling spices, instead of something foul or stinky. A caring touch to make Yosef's burden just a bit lighter.
This is what this short story reminded me of, as I heard what happened to this nine year old boy, Ohad.
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