Living in Miracles: Don't Become Numb About Israel/Iran War

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This is the Jewish Inspiration Podcast.

Welcome everybody, good morning.

It is so wonderful to be here.

There's beautiful, magnificent Sunday morning here in Houston, Texas.

I wanted to take some time before we get onto a regular programming of the everyday Judaism

podcast and talk a little bit about what's going on in the world.

You know, the Torah tells us that there's a special blessing that should be recited.

When one comes back from a dangerous place, if someone is stuck in the desert or if someone

is on a medical challenge, someone's very ill, someone's in a prison, you release, you

should say, hago melchaim chayevim tovot, shagmalani kultov, we're giving thanks to Hashem.

We're giving praise to Hashem for his kindness, for his mercy, for his goodness that he has

bestowed upon us.

It's a very, very important thing that we need to do.

We say this generally, people say it along with the Torah reading.

So when someone gets an aliyah and they experience something like, I recently had in my synagogue,

someone was ill and when he came back, he's like, it's important for me to get an aliyah

because they need to thank Hashem.

For healing me, I'm happy that I'm still alive.

I want to just thank God.

What is the blessing?

Blessed are you Hashem, our God, King of the Universe, who grants good things to the undeserving

who has granted every goodness to me.

And then the congregation responds, a main, may he who has granted goodness to you, continue

to grant every goodness to you forever, such a beautiful blessing.

What is this blessing that we are thanking Hashem?

What is this blessing that we're thanking Hashem?

So we need to recognize the mercy that Hashem has with us.

I sat yesterday after Shabbos, I sat by my desk, and I started asking my chat.

I started asking, I asked the following question, how many missiles have been launched from

I ran to Israel in the past five years?

So I have a total here that will record over a thousand ballistic missiles.

Over a thousand ballistic missiles were shot, a thousand 180 missiles, approximately

1,180 missiles.

Then I asked, how many landed in populated areas in Israel and how many were intercepted?

The answer was, he gave in each one of the battles, how many landed on the first 150 that

were sent in 2024, zero to one, okay, so 150 were sent, and 99 percent were flicked out

of the year by Hashem.

In the October battle in 2024, 180 were sent, and two to five landed in populated areas,

landed but not necessarily populated areas.

In 2025 and June 13, this past year, they sent 566 ballistic missiles of which 20 to 31

landed in Israel, which is 95 percent were intercepted, and now recently they sent 300

ballistic missiles, and between five and 12 landed in Israel, some in populated areas

and some in deserted areas.

And then I asked, what's about the Houthis?

And they sent approximately 180 missiles from Yemen all the way to Israel, and how many

of them were intercepted, a total of 99 percent of them, 99 percent.

Why is it important for me to go through all these numbers?

Why, like, who cares about the numbers?

Who cares about this?

It's a great miracle, great.

We're going to try to put everything together, everything together in all of our teachings,

you know, in our prayer class, when we talked about Hodu, we said, Hodu Hashem, Kirub

Ishmael, Hodu Be Amim Ali-Losov, give thanks to Hashem, the clearest name, make his

acts known among the peoples.

Zerulo, Zamrulo, Sikhubikhal Nifloosov, sing to him, make music to Hashem, speak of all

of his wonders.

We shouldn't say, oh, it's in general, general rule, God has been good to the Jewish people.

Here and there, a missile fell through the cracks.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

Every single missile needs to be praised that Hashem intercepted it.

Oh, Iron Dome, David Slink, it's nonsense, it's the hand of Hashem.

The Iranians, last week said that something supernatural is happening for the Israelis.

The Iranians said that.

Shouldn't we recognize the supernatural events that Hashem is performing in front of our

eyes?

To stop and realize, this is not normal.

And we go about our day, and I don't see many people like, you know, here and there, I

hear people telling me, you know, I too, by the way, I have children in Israel who want

to come visit us for Pesach and can't leave Israel because their flights were all canceled.

Oh, that's such a pain, it's such a heartache because we want our children to be back

or ready to visit for Pesach and they can't.

Do we realize the miracles that are going on?

Do we realize the unbelievable magnitude of these miracles in front of our eyes?

And when does it happen?

Right?

And the days of Purim, the days that precede Pesach, who knows if it'll continue to

Pesach, they say there was a talk of a ceasefire, maybe, maybe not, we'll see what happens.

But what happened when the Jewish people were in Egypt?

They had the splitting of the sea, the splitting of the sea.

What an amazing miracle.

Everyone witnessed it.

What happened just a few days later?

90 days later, they're serving the golden calf, 50 days till they received the Torah at

Mount Sinai from the splitting of the sea.

And then 40 days after that, they have the golden calf.

What's wrong with them?

I mean, you just saw the splitting of the sea.

You saw the miracles of the ten plagues that transpired, that God demolished the Egyptians.

And now you're serving a golden calf.

What's wrong with you?

See, our nature is to just get busy with life.

Our nature is, and by the way, during this whole time, the Jewish people are benefiting

from mana, that descents from heaven every morning.

They're living in miracles, and yet they don't realize the miracles.

We are no different today, where we are living in miracles and not recognizing the miracles

that we are experiencing.

Combine, we have over here what?

1500 rockets, ballistic missiles.

We're not talking about the ones from Hamas, 1500.

And what?

I mean, these things are a thousand kilograms of explosives.

They can take out a city block.

It's unbelievable.

And yet people are just traveling around, going here, going there in the United States,

outside of Israel, in the diaspora, and in Israel.

People are just moving out of life.

It's a little inconvenience, but we'll get through it.

We have to stop and say, holdul Hashem.

We have to stop and we have to sing Hashem's praise wherever we go.

It's the most miraculous thing in the world.

We're living in a world.

They say that, you know, they're two and a half billion Muslims.

Not everyone is a terrorist, only ten percent of them.

Oh, sorry.

So 250 million of them are.

250 million.

How many Jews are there in the world?

17 million in the entire world.

We're living in miracles.

We have to say them.

We said in our prayer class, we have to say it every day because if you stop saying the

praises of Hashem, you start forgetting them.

You stop recognizing them.

You stop seeing the goodness of Hashem.

If you stop praising, Basu Mayam, Alayam, you should also say every day, every day,

pronounce it again.

We wake up in the morning, say Hashem.

Thank you for saving the Jewish people.

Thank you for protecting the land of Israel.

Thank you for saving us, whether it be the temple in Detroit, the terrorist, attempted

terrorist attack, whoever else it may be.

We have to declare this every day, vocally, pronounce it and thank you Hashem.

Thank you Hashem.

We're not running from anything.

I titled this Iran, Iran, Iran.

We don't know.

We're not running.

We ran till now.

We're not running anymore.

We're proud.

We're proud to declare our Judaism.

So Hashem wants from us.

Hashem wants us to be proud.

We don't take off the amaca.

We don't take off the symbolism.

We put out, pull out the high necklace.

We pull out the star of David.

We're it with pride.

Not to hide our Judaism.

To embrace it and to declare Hashem's greatness every single day.

It's unbelievable, it's unfathomable.

The degree to which these miracles are clear in front of our eyes, they're clear in

front of our eyes.

I highly recommend, I have this, it's in alarm, it's called the red alert.

Every time there's a rocket heading towards Israel, whether it be from Kisbalah, whether

it be from the Iranians or from the Houthis, you get a notification.

Just to feel it.

So we don't feel numb.

And you'll realize that it's at every hour of the day.

I think it was Thursday night, more than half of Israel was in the bomb shelters.

All night.

Know what that means?

How many people can't go to work the next day?

How many children are off schedule?

How many kids are not going to be able to go to school?

I mean the whole country, everything is turned over.

Hashem is protecting us.

Hashem is trying to wake us up.

Like what's the wake up call, wake up, wake up, shake us out of bed.

We're in a sleep, we're in a sleep, in a deep sleep.

What I'd like to do is I'd like to encourage each and every one of us to declare every day.

You read the news, you read these miracles, declare it, say Hashem, thank you.

Thank you for protecting us from those 13 missiles.

Hashem Thursday night, they over a hundred rockets came from Khizbalah, from Lebanon.

Minimum damage, minimal damage, maximum miracles, maximum Hashem is protecting us.

Holy technology is so advanced, Hashem's hand is so advanced.

Creator of heaven and earth, Hashem is showing us every single day is miracles.

We have to declare it, Basu-mi-yoyim al-Yoyim, Yeshua say.

Declare it every day, the salvation that Hashem brings to us.

We can't become numb to it.

We have to recognize it every single day.

We have to declare it every day.

Shear it every day.

Thank you, Hashem.

Hashem should bless us all.

That we should all be uprooted from our comforts here in the United States,

transported to your Shalayim.

We pray every day with sech-a-Zen-o-i-Nin-u-Beshub-Khalati-Yamber-Akhameem.

Hashem, our eyes should see your return to Zion in our days, speedily in our days,

with mercy, that Hashem's temple descend back onto the temple mount,

that we be able to bring our offerings in the temple.

How important it is for us to realize.

Recognize, Hashem loves us, Hashem wants us.

We have to desire.

We have to, yeah, it's comfortable here in the United States.

It's comfortable, people in Europe, people wherever they are, till we get rattled.

Oh, antisemitism.

We have to wake up.

We have to get ready.

Prepare ourselves.

Dear friends, we should continue to see the amazing, beautiful hand of Hashem,

every single day of our lives, and declare it out in the open.

Don't shy away.

Don't run away.

No, I ran away.

Run towards Hashem.

Run towards Hashem, recognize his incredible miracles.

We should continue to be blessed every single day, I mean.

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