There is no ‘power of our own arm’ – comments from the Rav
Excerpt of shiur, Monday, 8th Kislev, 5785, to the Yeshiva in the Old City
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Now, we are seeing in Syria that everything fell.
The Sitra Achra fell, and in Lebanon, the Sitra Achra fell.
[But] now we had seven killed, it’s not helping anything that…
Hashem is showing that there is no ‘kochi v’otzam yadi’ (the power and strength of my own arm).
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They say that [the soldiers who were killed] in Lebanon, they were killed by our own trap / mine.
Now, just a minute ago, I heard that they entered a tunnel, and there, that was a booby trap, [that the army emplaced] against the Hizballah.
So this is now the final sakira (report?), [that] in Lebanon they entered some tunnel there, some house, to uncover the tunnel. They went into the tunnel, and then the charge went off.
But it was a charge that we put it [there], that if the Arabs would come back, so then they would go to gehinnom (even gehinnom won’t let them in.)
So, in any case, this is seven dead.
This is not simple.
Three killed in Gaza, and four killed [in Lebanon], and 18 badly injured. This also means without hands, without legs.
So there is no kochi v’otzam yadi here.
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Translated from Shivivei Or 388.
THEY DO NOT WANT US TO DANCE AS THEY KNOW THE POWER THAT WE HAVE
BACK TO THE BEGGAR WITH NO LEGS
“This also means without hands, ”
WHAT CAN THIS BEGGAR NOT DO ?
WHAT ELSE BESIDES DANCING AND SAYING OUR SETS OF PSALMS SHOULD WE BE DOING ?
CLAPPING