Rabbi Mandel on the War in Eretz Yisroel
People are getting depressed. Keep away from the news! It is very negative, and looking at it can be suicidal, Hashem Y'racheim; have Sechel, and look away! You don’t even know what this does to you. I sit down for an hour a day, to learn Mussar on Bitachon. I go through it, it’s not always so easy, I don’t feel like it’s affecting me. Another Vort in Bitachon, another P’shetel, I go through it, and I feel nothing happened. But when I look in the mirror; I'm all smiles! I don’t realize how it’s affecting me. You don’t chap how reading positive stuff is affecting you, it’s giving a smile on your face. (Bitachon Weekly is also not bad...). Stick to happy news, and don’t come near the latest updates; don’t come near it! Better not to know, not to see; keep away! When you talk positive, you bring more positive. I spoke to my class today about the Gulf War. That’s what you should speak about; the Gulf War! The Mashgiach R' Nosson told me that since Ness Purim, there was no greater Ness than the Gulf War! R' Don Segal Shlita said that there were Nissim G’luyim! The newspapers were full “Miracles, miracles!”. There were plenty of miracles now, too. A woman was about to be attacked, and she said “from now on, I promise to be Tz’niyus’dik, and the Arab ran away.
I cannot vouch for the accuracy, but people are saying that Tifrach and Ofakim are two Yeshivos that were on their list, and suddenly they turned around and changed their minds; they are not going there. Where did they go? To a different place, of young guys who were doing other things... they were having their own “Simcha”; a “Simchas (of the opposite of the) Torah” and they were the ones who were unfortunately killed... they Eibishter did a job, leave it to the Eibishter. Certainly, we don’t want this, Chas V’shalom, we really want them all to do Teshuva.
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