This past Chol Hamoed Sukkos, a terrorist tried to bring down a passenger plane, and a chain of open miracles stopped him. Even people who don't believe called it a miracle. But the Gerrer Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Shaul Alter shlita, noticed something nobody talked about.
The attacker had planned to do it on an earlier flight and held back only because a friend of his was on the crew. The passengers on that first plane will never know they were saved.
That, the Rosh Yeshivah explains, is the difference between "nisecha" and "niflaosecha" In Modim: the miracles we see, and the wonders that are with us every day without our ever knowing.
In his second talk, the Rosh Yeshivah speaks about bechirah. Every Jew, in Yerushalayim or in Boca Raton, faces his own tests in his own generation, and each one sets his own diamond in the King's crown.
Also featuring Rabbi Yaakov Gottlieb, a talmid of the Rosh Yeshivah, on carrying his Torah into his IDF service in Gaza and Lebanon.
Recorded at a chizuk gathering at Boca Raton Synagogue hosted by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, Wednesday of Parshas Vayeira 5787.
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