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And sometimes when we have when we
believe that everything is mapped out by
Hashem that's sometimes when the
greatest miracles happen. So speaking
about miracles of course you're going to
but I have to tell you a story that you
probably never ever heard before. You
may never. So it's got to listen. There
was once a soldier serving in the
Russian army. Now this was no regular
soldier. This was a very tyra bakr that
was used to sitting and learning many
many hours a day. He was learning
rashbas and garumaras and he was dvening
and he would say he was a really good
and what happened was
there was a big war that broke out in
Russia and he was drafted to the Russian
army and was very terrible for this
bakar because besides the fact that he
was used to instead of serving the
Russian army he was serving
he's learning all day but his biggest
fear
the thing that he was so scared of most
was that they were going to war [music]
against Prussia which later became
Germany and what happened was his
biggest fear was that maybe he's going
to hurt another Yid because there were
Jews that were residing in the other
army and maybe the worst imaginable
thing that can happen is that he would
kill another Yid but he was drafted and
he knew that his life was on the line
and he had to go and it was very very
very hard because these were terrible
people. They would get drunk all the
time. They would say bad words and it
was a very bad situation, very bad
hashbah that had on this bakr. And weeks
went on and finally one day while this
boy was he was not used to anything. He
was this weak little boy and he couldn't
hold a gun and he couldn't have any of
the material. Every time he'd go out to
war, he was literally limping and he
couldn't carry anything and it was so
hard for him. [music] And one day he
just decided he saw this tree stump in
the middle of the field while he's
supposed to be fighting and killing
other people. He's just like, you know
what? I can't do it [music] anymore. And
he just pllopped he plots on this tree
on this stump in the middle of a field
in the middle of the war and he just
started to relax and he took out a Mishn
from his pocket and he started learning
and all of a sudden he was like in this
whole he was learning and he felt so
connected again to Shamim and Hashem and
he felt like he was doing the right
thing and lo and behold all of a sudden
a bullet went right into his stomach and
he's aching and he feels like he's about
to die and he's in such pain and he's
wondering how could it be that the
second that I took on my Mishna after
all these weeks in the war all of a
sudden the second that I'm learning
Mishnayas that's when I that's when
Hashem decides I should get shot and
he's sitting and aching and bleeding and
to make matters worse
there was a German soldier who came over
this a Russian soldier this big huge
tall guy and he was this little wimp and
the Russian soldier took his big boot
and kicked him. And this this this baker
this boy went flying and [music] again
gets out on the floor. He's unconscious.
He's literally feeling like he's about
to die and he's all he remembers after
is that how could it be? I was just
learning Mishnas. I was doing it was
finally like the perfect situation. I
should have been protected but instead I
got shot in the stomach and then I got
kicked by this iron boot in my stomach
again and now I'm literally dying. And
as he's having these thoughts, all of a
sudden he hears a loud explosion
and he knows something just happened and
he was in terrible pain and he saw
everything was bleeding and gushing and
he had enough to look back and what did
he see? He saw there was a rocket that
landed right on the tree stump that he
was learning his Mishna on.
And then he realized it wasn't because
he was learning that Hashem didn't care
and Hashem [music] wasn't watching. It
was just the opposite. It was the of the
it was the of those Mishn that literally
saved his life. As we go into and we
learn about we remember Hashem does and
we should never think when we're doing
the right thing that maybe it's not the
right thing. Maybe something else. As
long as we do the right thing, we can
always look back at
and always know Hashem is looking back
at us, protecting us, supervising us and
loves us more than anything. And
sometimes when things seem dark and we
see upon him, that's in fact [music] the
most when Hashem is watching over us and
carrying us.