Is It A Miracle?
You might think it horrible. Too horrible to think, and certainly too horrible to say, but I have heard it said by a lot of people in the last few days. Simple people, and sophisticated people, and some apologized for what they said, and some just threw it out. But what I heard was that what happened in New Orleans is a miracle! You look at the sights on the TV or in the newspaper, at all the houses ruined, and at the people thrown out of their homes by a natural disaster, and your only inclination is to reach out and express your sympathy, and try to give a helping hand. How could someone say that!? That it is a miracle? But I've heard it said.
When we use the word miracle in English, It sounds like some wonderful positive occurrence at the hand of God. And it is wonderful, but it isn't always positive. The Hebrew word for miracle is "ness", which means a flag, pennant, or standard. The idea is that we're going along in life and taking everything in this wonderful creation for granted, and then all of a sudden, God plants something that is different from the "natural" occurrences in this world, and it is meant to remind us that there is something greater than we are in this world. And we are, looking at the pictures from Gush Katif, with ten thousand people thrown out of their homes because the Arabs don't want to live next to a Jew in their so-called territories (although they don't mind living next door to us in our neighborhoods), and the Americans have supported this travesty of human rights even though in Serbia, a few years back, they called this "ethnic cleaning"! And then, one week later, A big storm comes from the ocean, and takes a little strip of land in the middle of America, and wipes it out, and innocent people are thrown out of their homes, and even the governor of that state tells people that they should leave their homes! Could it be that it is a lesson from on high?! There are those, who understood the enormity of the injustice in Israel, who understand that this is a shame and a travesty to human kind. And some of these people read the bible, and feel that what happens today too has the weight of stories we read in the bible.
What do you think?
haveil_havalim
When we use the word miracle in English, It sounds like some wonderful positive occurrence at the hand of God. And it is wonderful, but it isn't always positive. The Hebrew word for miracle is "ness", which means a flag, pennant, or standard. The idea is that we're going along in life and taking everything in this wonderful creation for granted, and then all of a sudden, God plants something that is different from the "natural" occurrences in this world, and it is meant to remind us that there is something greater than we are in this world. And we are, looking at the pictures from Gush Katif, with ten thousand people thrown out of their homes because the Arabs don't want to live next to a Jew in their so-called territories (although they don't mind living next door to us in our neighborhoods), and the Americans have supported this travesty of human rights even though in Serbia, a few years back, they called this "ethnic cleaning"! And then, one week later, A big storm comes from the ocean, and takes a little strip of land in the middle of America, and wipes it out, and innocent people are thrown out of their homes, and even the governor of that state tells people that they should leave their homes! Could it be that it is a lesson from on high?! There are those, who understood the enormity of the injustice in Israel, who understand that this is a shame and a travesty to human kind. And some of these people read the bible, and feel that what happens today too has the weight of stories we read in the bible.
What do you think?
haveil_havalim
posted by ShimonZ at 7:35 AM
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