A Miracle on the Flight from Dubai ✈️

This morning, a flight from Dubai to Israel. 174 passengers, including many Israelis and 27 children, are on their way home. And in the middle of the flight, the co-pilot attacks the captain in the cockpit. According to estimates, the goal was to crash the plane in a terrorist attack. The plane dives about 15,000 [music] ft. The captain is wounded. The one sitting at the controls is the attacker, and in the passenger cabin, people are screaming Shema Yisrael and are certain that this is the end. In terms of nature, [music] this story should have ended differently, and now let's look at the chain of events. On the plane, according to reports, [music] there was an additional pilot flying, a doctor and a nurse sitting among the passengers, and heroes, including Israelis, get up from [music] their seats, run to the cockpit, and overpower the terrorist together with the crew. The additional pilot takes the [music] controls and lands the plane safely in Saudi Arabia. All 174 passengers are alive, and at the moment of landing, the passengers sing Od Avinu Chai, Our Father Still Lives. Friends, when did this miracle begin? When the plane dove? Or much earlier, when one pilot, one doctor, and one nurse boarded that exact flight, and none of them knew why, and whoever got up from their seat didn't know they would be a hero today. In the Scroll of Esther, even before Haman appears, >> [music] >> the king's two bodyguards, Bigthan and Teresh, plot to assassinate him. They speak in a foreign language, certain that no one understands. But sitting by the gate is one Jew, [music] and the Gemara reveals, Mordecai knew 70 languages. He understands, reports it, and the king is saved. Years later, when Haman [music] decrees the destruction of the Jews, the king remembers specifically Mordecai, who saved his [music] life, and from there, everything turns around. And regarding this, Resh Lakish says, "The Holy One, blessed be He, does not strike Israel unless He first creates a cure for them. The cure does not arrive after the blow. It is already sitting in place waiting. Mordecai sat at the gate before anyone knew there was a [music] danger, and the pilot, the doctor, and the nurse boarded the plane before anyone knew they would be needed. And the heroes who jumped on the terrorists didn't wait for a miracle. [music] They were its messengers. And so too the crew and the pilot who landed a whole plane full of families with a steady hand. That is exactly the secret of the miracle. The one who plotted stood by the controls, but the one who leads the world had already seated the salvation on that very same plane. Faith is not a promise that there won't be scary moments. Faith is knowing that [music] even in the scariest moment, the salvation is already sitting right next to us. So the next time [music] your heart tightens from bad news, an unpaid bill, or worry at night, let's stop, breathe, and remember that before the trouble even set out on its way, our salvation was already waiting in place because we are never flying alone. Before every blow, the cure has already bought a ticket.