Massacre Averted As Suicide Bomber Explodes Next To Shul In Tel Aviv

A bomb on a walking terrorist in his backpack exploded P R E M A T U R E L Y. Yes, a very great Neis. This terrorist was headed to a Shul full of Daveners and faithful Jews Learning in South Tel Aviv.  https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2306692/huge-neis-massacre-averted-after-failed-suicide-attack-next-to-shul-in-tel-aviv.html

HOWEVER:

ASTOUNDING: Bnei Brak Rav Last Week: “Limmud Torah In This Shul Protects All Of Tel Aviv”

Rav Avraham Meshulam, the Gabbai of the Rashbi shul in southern Tel Aviv, where a great neis occurred on Sunday evening when a suicide bomber’s powerful bomb prematurely exploded ten meters away from it, spoke to the media on Monday about the magnitude of the neis.

“The explosion was louder than I’ve ever heard before,” he said. “The whole shul shook like in a powerful earthquake. The electricity went out in part of the building and the glass of the windows shattered on people. Miraculously there were no people on the street at the time except for one passerby who was injured and we daven for his speedy recovery.”

“They saw on the security cameras that the terrorist had already approached the entrance of the shul, checked out the area and saw that there was a shul there full of people. Afterward, you see him going back ten meters and sitting on a bench and fiddling with the buttons inside his knapsack. Hakadosh Baruch Hu caused him to make a mistake and apparently he accidentally pressed the wrong button, activating the device at that moment and not several minutes afterward. It truly was a neis. The building next to the shul, a hardware store, was destroyed – the wall completely exploded. The glass that shattered on us was really marginal, nothing. None of us were hurt, not even a little. We believe that Hakadosh Baruch Hu protects us and saved us.”

Rav Meshulam told B’Chadrei Chareidim that the shul has a Yeshivas Bein Hazemanim every day, the largest one in the city, and the shul is especially crowded at night with mispallelim and lomdei Torah – exactly the time that the device exploded.

“Just last week, the Sephardi Rav of Bnei Brak, HaGaon HaRav Masoud Ben-Shimon, came to the opening ceremony for Yeshivas Bein HaZemanim, and said: ‘Know one thing –  this Yeshivas Bein HaZemanim protects all of Tel Aviv.’

“At that time, people didn’t attribute much importance to his words and thought it was simply a statement of chizzuk. But Baruch Hashem, everyone understands the koach of Torah – that’s what protects Am Yisrael. It could have ended in a mass-casualty incident – the explosion was extremely powerful.”

The shul’s Beis Medrash.

“My father built this shul 75 years ago in the name of Rav Shimon Bar Yochai. The shteibelach have been here for 75 years and are full of tefillos, shiurei Torah all the time.”

See the shul in the videos below: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2306848/astounding-bnei-brak-rav-last-week-limmud-torah-in-this-shul-protects-all-of-tel-aviv.html

The first video shows the limmud Torah continuing even after the attack – without lights or air conditioning.