0740 - Recognizing Hashem and his Miracles Part 1 - Entebee

00:01 Everyone knows the story of the hijacking, that they hijacked the plane and they took it to Entebbe, to Uganda. So I'm not gonna go through the whole story. Everyone knows that. Also, I wasn't in New York when that started. I only was in New York when the Rebbe spoke about it in the beginning, which was Yud Beis Tammuz, Tov Shin Lamed Vav. So I just want to give over a few points that the Rebbe made. We all know that they hijacked the plane, they took it to Entebbe, and then Israeli government sent a few planes of soldiers and they rescued the Yidden there, except four, Rebbe, four Yidden were killed, but most of them were saved. And the Rebbe spoke about it very strongly. He started speaking about it Yud Beis Tammuz, but he continued speaking about it for a long time. For many months he spoke and added and added and added. And the nekuda that the Rebbe spoke was the nissim that took place then. The way they-- it happened was nissim. And the Rebbe went through all the details that every detail, every way along the way was a nes. The mere fact that they decided to go there, which was not something that made sense, et cetera, et cetera. It's all nissim. And the Rebbe said that we have to make sure that we thank Hashem for the nissim. And he said that the people who did it, um, mesirat nefesh, they put their lives on the line, the soldiers, and

01:24 they definitely will get Olam Haba. And we have to thank Hashem for the nissim that the Abishter did. And one of the things also the Rebbe said we have to strengthen based on that, the Mivtzoim went to the details, especially Mivtza Mezuzah. He said because when they checked the mezuzahs of these people who were hijacked, I think by all of them or most of them, there were definitely mezuzahs which were not kosher. Some of them were not kosher, maybe by some... Uh, nothing was kosher. Missing mezuzah, whatever it is. But the Rebbe connected to the Mivtza Mezuzah that we have to do the Mivtza Mezuzah. And this all was to prove, to show the connection to the nissim that the Abishter did, and we have to thank the Abishter for the nissim. The problem was that there were a group of people that came out and said this was not nissim. Since the people who did this were not from, the Israeli soldiers, not from soldiers, and if they're not from soldiers, the Abishter can't do nissim. And they made up a Maamar Chazal which is nisht geshtegen, nisht geflogen. Ei nakadesh Baruch Hu ese nissim al yerushayim. The Abishter doesn't do nissim to yerushayim. And the Rebbe went on and on about it to say that this is all not true. And he said, "Arachmanus on these people who claim that there were no nissim, and they're claiming that this is pashet keichve eytzem yod yosiel azachai lazeh, that this was done by the

02:44 human beings." And the Rebbe said it's not true. Chas v'shalom to say such a thing. And we have to thank the Abishter for the nissim. And the Rebbe even quoted what the Gemara says in Sanhedrin that rotz hakodesh Baruch Hu la'ases Cheski Ha'Meshiah. The Abishter wanted to make Cheski HaMelech Meshiah for the ni-- And this was a time when the Abishter made great nissim for Cheski HaMelech, the war. And the reason the Abishter did not make him Meshiah is because he did not thank Hashem for the nissim. So from here we see the importance of thanking Hashem for the nissim. And the Rebbe went on many farbrengens afterwards. This was during the summer of Lamed Vav and went into Lamed Zayin, mentioned it many, many times, this idea of the nissim. And then when it came to Simchas Torah, Tov Zayin Lamed Zayin, the Rebbe even added another point which I'll say in the next voice note