Rav Avigdor Miller on Hashem’s Endless Miracles
QUESTION: What lesson can we learn from the Islamic fundamentalists terrorists that were caught right before they wanted to blow up tunnels in New York City?
ANSWER: Well, the fact they were caught before they did harm we have to thank Hakadosh Baruch Hu for that. Certainly.
But we have to understand from this story that there are many reshaim that are planning all kinds of wicked things that we don’t know about. And Hakadosh Baruch Hu is constantly saving us in ways of which we are unaware. You have to know that. Very many things have happened to save us from things which we’re not aware of. And although we don’t have the slightest inkling that we were in danger, but we have to know that many times we are in very extreme sakanos and Hakadosh Baruch Hu has rescued us.
I’ll give a mashal. I always quote the same mashal. The blood vessels are very narrow, especially in the brain. Some are so narrow that the blood corpuscles can pass through only one by one; they’re so narrow.
Now you know the blood is viscous; it’s a sticky fluid. And it’s very easy for it to get stuck there. If it would get stuck there would be chalilah a stroke. A stroke in the brain! And still the blood vessels continue to march. The corpuscles march through the tiniest blood vessels in the brain and we rarely, rarely ever get a stroke. Sometimes one of the corpuscles gets stuck. That man is in trouble now! It’s a stroke chas veshalom. Suddenly Hakadosh Baruch Hu sends along the next corpuscle and it gives it a push and it’s unclogged! A neis!
We have to know Hakadosh Baruch Hu is doing miracles without our knowing it. Wonders are taking place within us. We’re being saved every day. נפלאותיך על עת שבכל ניסך ועל עמנו יום שבכל. Hashem is doing miracles all the time. We’re being saved. And it’s important for us to realize that.
So, this story with the terrorists is just a mashal. Just like there we see that they planned to do something but Hashem frustrated their evil intentions, there are many instances where things are taking place that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is constantly rescuing us from perils.
TAPE # 927 (August 1993)
Reprinted from a recent email of Toras Avigdor, - (based on a Thursday night tape #927 from August 1993.)
Thoughts that Count for Our Parsha
And everyone who is wise-hearted among you shall come, and do all that G-d has commanded (Ex. 35:10)
Commenting on this verse, the Vilna Gaon would quote the Book of Proverbs: "The wise in heart will heed commandments, but a prattling fool will come to ruin." The wise man does a mitzva as soon as it presents itself, before any obstacles can arise. The "prattling fool" discusses it endlessly and puts it off, until it remains undone...
And Betzalel made the ark (Ex. 37:1)
Of all the components of the Sanctuary, why is Betzalel's name associated specifically with the ark? At different times in history, all of the other vessels were also fashioned by other people (i.e., for the First and Second Holy Temples; they will also be made for the Third Holy Temple when it is reestablished). However, there has always been only one ark, made by Betzalel. Although hidden away after the destruction, in the future it will be revealed. (Meshech Chochma)
Reprinted from the Parshat Ki Vayakhel 5762/2002 edition of L’Chaim.
