Steve Rosenthal was one of the 37 survivors after the collapse of the Champlain Towers where he lived for twenty years. He describes how most of his neighbors were tragically killed, but he was saved from being crushed by a mere ten feet.
After this traumatic event, Steve moved to a nearby hotel. Out of the blue he gets a call from the police. “We found something of yours in the rubble,” they said. Confused, Steve asked what it was. “Your tefillin,” the police answered, and they promptly sent him a picture of his tefillin bag with his name on it.
From that moment forward, Steve Rosenthal knew that it was Hashem who had saved him that day. Every day he started coming to shul and wearing tefillin and keeping Shabbat. So too, Bnei Yisroel clearly saw Hashem after Korach and his followers were destroyed. Let us not wait until Hashem shows us He is in control.
Reprinted from the Parashat Korach 5784 email of Jack E. Rahmey based on the Torah teachings of Rabbi Amram Sananes.
