October 7, Why Didn't God Save Us on ? Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

Now, let's look at October 7th. People ask, "How could that happen?" So, I ask the other question. How come it didn't happen before for my inmates that would love to do this on a daily basis? Sick, you know, animals full of hate. The answer is cuz all those other times God was protecting us. God said no. It's there's verses in in Psalms, the nations make plans of how they're going to destroy us, how they're going to attack us, how they're going to kill us. And God comes and disrupts all of those plans and doesn't let them happen. But that's God stopping it from happening. But then we can unfortunately be in a position in our relationship between us and God where God says, "Okay, I'm I'm stepping back. I'm not protecting you today." And and let's see what happens. And that's one way to understand what happened on on the 7th of October. God said because of this decision by God as stricter judgment, maybe because of our behavior, we all have to figure out what we were doing wrong that we were vulnerable on that day and we're going to be so to speak on our own. those evil people were allowed to then bring their schemes to and actualize them because God said today I'm not stopping them. And that's that's tragic and again it's hard and I'm not saying that I've solved our problem. I said okay great now let's go let's go home and and be happy. No. Why did God do that? Why how could God decide not to protect us from those ruthless evil enemies of God and of God's people? How could he let that happen? And so we have to go one step further and understand that there's a right and a left hand to the way God runs this world. There's a punishing hand and there's a loving hand. There's a providence that loves and there's a providence that punishes that is strict. And uh somehow our actions below cause a response above. There's a very very known saying the way we act here in this world will cause the divine judgment above to mimic that on some