Remember The Miracles

41 years ago the Yom Kippur war broke out [I was here but couldn't fight due to the fact that I needed to be next to my mother who would periodically change my diaper]. The Arabs attacked when most of the soldiers had been sent home and the Jews were an easy target. The roads were clear and they could have conquered from Eilat down south until Kiryat Shmoneh up north. Their dream of wiping out the State of Israel and all of its Jews could easily have been realized חס ושלום.


לולא השם שהיה לנו - If not for Divine intervention which saved us. The clear roads made it easy for the soldiers to return to their bases. But on a deeper level - the fact that the attack was on Yom Kippur ensured that we would have the zchus of all of the Jews fasting and davening on Yom Kippur that saved us. Hashem planned it that the attack should be on this holy day so that we would have many great merits and be saved.

זה היום עשה השם נגילה ונשמחה בו!

[The Rebbe Shlita in the name of the Beis Yisrael of Gur].