Ohel Sarala Journey to Amukah: Nishmas - STATISTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE

[screaming] >> Ad hena as a runo rachamecha v'lo yazvunu chasadecha. Until this point in time, your mercy has helped me. Your kindness has not abandoned me. These are from the most powerful [music] words in the entire tfila of nishmas. If you think about the wondrous, miraculous, continued existence [music] of the Jewish people after everything we've endured. For a Jew to be here today it's not statistically unlikely. It's not highly improbable. [music] It's downright impossible. Every after everything we've had to endure the destruction of the first base hamikdash, >> [music] >> destruction of the second base hamikdash where the Romans killed over a million, hunted down every Jew they could find, through the throughout the crusades the inquisition, the expulsion Chmielnicki pogroms, the holocaust for a Jew to be here today it's downright impossible. You know, sometimes people say if only Hashem would show me a supernatural miracle, I [music] would really believe in him. Rav Yaakov Emden in the 18th century wrote that when he contemplates [music] the continuity, the endurance of the Jewish people, he says keep his boini ni b'dvar m'eilah, when I contemplate these matters gadla etzli, it's greater in my mind mikol nisim sha'asa kodesh baruch hu l'Yisrael b'Mitzrayim, than all the miracles the Ribono shel Olam performed for the Jewish people in Egypt. And if Rav Yaakov Emden says that the miracle of Jewish existence and continuity was greater than the miracles of Egypt, what would he say if he saw the continuity of the Jewish people in our times in 2026. Baruch Hashem, we know we could count on you. Until today, your mercy has helped me. And your kindness [music] has not forsaken me. And therefore, I know you will never ever forsake me. [music] You will never let go of me.