ישועת ה' כהרף עין • ההנהגה הניסית של הקב"ה | הרב אליהו ובר

Yesterday evening, about half an hour before sunset, heavy rain began to fall across almost every part of the country . It was near sunset; does anyone know what happened yesterday evening? >> Well, what happened was the Flood. >> The Flood. >> The 17th of Cheshvan; if the 17th of Cheshvan arrives and no rain has fallen , we begin to fast. The 17th of Cheshvan is the day the Flood began. >> Yes. >> Ah. >> Meaning, yesterday, the 17th of Cheshvan, a few minutes before sunset, the rain began to fall. What is the idea here? There is a situation, it seems to me, where the Holy One, blessed be He, in many things, keeps us in suspense until the very last moment. Look how suddenly the rain comes down. We were in suspense: "Wow, will it rain or won't it rain?" And sunset arrived, and just before sunset, it rained. The Holy One, blessed be He, is saying: " You see, I gave you rain even before the time of trouble arrived." Who knows if you'll die, if the trouble will start? No, just a moment before. About a month ago, Almost a month ago, in the middle of Chol HaMoed, there was a very , very frightening event. There was a plane that was diving, diving, diving, diving—that’s how it was in the final seconds before the...before we faced the tragedy of... >> Close to 200 victims, and one "boom," and that plumber and that pilot— everything remained, and we are just telling the story, the miracle. And nothing like that had happened, that kind of tension, even in all the last three years, that the State of Israel, with all the wars we've been through, the tragic stories, all sorts of times it was like this, people said: "Wow, everything is lost." There were all sorts of events like that. So I am only saying this in the context of...The whole issue of the elections, we are truly past that, and last night they surprised us and said all sorts of things, and so on and so forth. There is a point here where the Holy One, blessed be He, wants us to awaken our hearts to repentance, even after what happened. So that’s why we are sometimes a little in suspense until the very last moment, and then suddenly there is a "boom," and suddenly we will see great salvations. So we must know that we don’t know exactly when the " boom" of the great salvation will come, but sometimes this tension of the final moments, this reality we are in and this pressure—from it, from it will come the great salvation. And perhaps if we behave a little better and come to the Holy One, blessed be He, and keep His commandments in the entire Torah—matters of the Temple, the Sabbath, idolatry, illicit relationships, bloodshed—all these matters, if we improve, the Holy One, blessed be He, will put us in less tension. So the Holy One, blessed be He , will help us, as we stand here before Mount Moriah; it is the weekly Torah portion, right, Abraham? Our father Abraham is already taking the knife to slaughter his son; we understand the event, Isaac is lying there, Abraham is holding the knife, and that’s it— there is no continuation for our father Abraham, no continuation. And boom, the angel arrived from heaven. So may the Holy One, blessed be He, help us to be privileged to see the angel from heaven quickly for the great salvation.