Dear Brothers,
There is only one way to be secure. Hakadosh Baruch Hu enabled us to see with our own eyes that “There is me, and there is no other!” Emes Malkeinu – “It is true that He is our King; there is nothing but Him.”
It isn’t just little me saying this. This is the mutual feeling of Yidden of every type and stripe.
Four hundred years ago, Rav Chaim Vital zy”a wrote in Eitz Hadaas Tov, in his commentary on Perek 124 of Tehillim:
“There is a fifth and final galus, harder than all the others, and it is the galus of Yishmael, who is called perre adam (wild man).... Our Sages write that he is called Yishmael (lit., the L-rd will hear), based on the fact that in the future Yisrael will scream loudly in the days of that exile, and then Hashem will hear and will answer them....
“In galus Yishamel, they want to kill us, destroy our bodies and take our possessions. They want to swallow Yisrael alive, leaving “neither root nor branch,” and they are going to persecute Yisrael in many harsh and terrible ways, with unprecedented fury.”
And since nothing can stop them, and their wild behavior is worse than beasts of prey, what will happen to us? Regarding this, Rav Chaim Vital answers: “Our only hope is to trust in Hashem Yisbarach to save us from their hands.”
The Alshich Hakadosh on the passuk (Tehillim 124:8), “Our help [will come] in the Name of Hashem, Maker of the heavens and the earth,” writes, “In all the exiles, Yisrael had some physical assistance to be redeemed, but this is not the case in the final redemption, where we will have nothing but Hashem Yisbrach, and this is the meaning of ‘Our help [will come] in the Name of Hashem’ – that we have only Hashem’s assistance – through His great and holy Name. This is our help.”
Dear brothers, this is the only option: to connect only to Hakadosh Baruch Hu and to trust only in Him, to believe only in Him, to daven only to Him, and to anticipate help and salvation only from Him.
Let us internalize this deeply. We have no one to rely on. Our abilities in hishtadlus in the face of this bitter and impetuous enemy are nil, whereas the abilities of Hakadosh Baruch Hu are endless, for He is the Master of every power that exists. He is our strength and our shield. We place our hopes in Him, and He will save us.
Dear brothers, this is the call of the hour: Connect more Yidden to the Hashgachah Pratis phone line, make sure they also receive the newsletter and the Hashgachah Pratis magazine. Chizuk in emunah and bitachon is the true remedy and the real yeshuah for all of Am Yisrael.
It is my heartfelt prayer that even before these lines reach you, we will have seen the yeshuah of Hashem with our own eyes.
Kesivah vachasimah tovah,
Pinchas Shefer
Parshs Lech Lecha 5783 ■ Issue 124
