Posted on 10/30/2011 4:11:53 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
A classroom in a special education school in Ashdod has served as a makeshift synagogue on Sabbaths for 40 years running. Throughout those years, not one Sabbath prayer was missed. Until this last Sabbath. And that was what saved the congregants from a Gaza missile that struck the synagogue's courtyard Saturday.
Netanel Mor Yosef, a member of the congregation, explained to Arutz Sheva:
"The synagogue is active, but only on the Sabbath, for the past 40 years. Not a single Sabbath prayer session was ever missed until this week. Then synagogue's gabbai (treasurer-manager) underwent an operation during the week and was unable to come to open the synagogue doors. So there was no service, of course. Then we saw that the missile had lodged a direct hit. Normally, the area surrounding the spot where the missile hit would be full of people during all of those hours on Shabbat. "Thank G-d this was a visible miracle, the synagogue was closed, the congregants and the residents acted in accordance with the Home Front's instructions and the great damage that should have happened was averted.
"No one thinks about the Kassam itself. All day long the talk is about the miracle, how it happened, and everyone – even those who are not believers – is unanimous in agreeing that what occured was a miracle. A great miracle - without doubt. "From here we call on all the residents to become stronger [in their faith], and also to listen to the [Home Front Command's] instructions, we do not disparage that, but we saw a great miracle here and one cannot ignore this reality. I invite everyone to come and see, and the miracle will become more tangible to them."
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.~Genesis 12:3
God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.
God protects His own. Always has, always will.
May God bless you Israel.
Far as I know, a miracle is an event that happens in contradiction to the laws of nature. This is not such, it is simply an unlikely event and they happen every day.
Baruch Hashem hakadosh baruch hu....
Unfortunately, you don’t know very far, then. Read the Book of Esther. It contains a series of highly likely events, all of which add up to a miracle.
There are open miracles, such as the splitting of the Red Sea, Elija ascending to heaven, manah in the wilderness, and then there are the less open miracles, many of which happen every day. Creation ex nihilo is the greatest miracle of them all, in that it established a natural order that you can then refer to as “the laws of nature,” and then think of as immovable and fixed, and thereby fail to see the hand of G-d working through nature in both ordinary and extraordinary ways. Enough theology. I must sleep.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149207#.Tq3i-3KLP-k
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Mortar, Rocket Attacks Every Six Minutes
Hamas and allied terrorists attacked southern Israel with rockets and mortar shells at the rate of one every six minutes at dawn.
Islamic Jihad appeared to be behind most of the attacks over the past 48 hours, but Hamas has done nothing to stop the sudden offensive”
Surprise? shouldn’t be. Where do you THINK those thousands of missiles that went ‘missing’ from Libya went? (And as soon as they get a bunch of them up to Afghanistan, they’ll be reigning down on our troops, too.)
On another note:
The first day in office, obama made his first call to a foreign statesman: Palestinian Pres. Abbas - an 7 days latter made this ‘Determination”
“Obama opening floodgates by inviting Hamas to “migrate” to the U.S.A.?”
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/8236
and his first official address as president of the U.S>, remember, was IN CAIRO - to the Muslim Brotherhood - to whom he has now handed over Egypt.
and he soon sent madame Hitlery to Egypt: “to make the announcement next week at a Gaza donors conference in Egypt...to pledge more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel’s invasion and strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, a U.S. official said on Monday. “
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29352401/
this was just the first month in office.
Anyone still left that does not recognize where this presidents loyalties lie - is blind, stupid or Muslim. Maybe all 3.
"Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding."
It might be that "Far as you know" isn't very far.
There have been, are, and will be, copious accounts of such 'miracles' -
Ping for later read.
Trouble is if you call this a miracle and assume that God intervened to save these people, you have to then assume that God failed everytime such an attack actually kills people. It’s not that easy.
Give me a solid definition of a miracle. Maybe you consider every piece of good luck a miracle. If so, I will withdraw from further discussion.
I will also do you the favor of ignoring your gratuitous insult.
Amen.
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