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NEWS
Rav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz: "Talmidim from Abroad
Currently in Eretz Yisroel Should Let Their Parents Know
Everyone Will be Safe."
by A. Cohen
"All talmidim from abroad currently staying in Eretz
Yisroel should let their parents know that everyone will be
safe. For when children stay in Eretz Yisroel occupied with
Hashem's Torah this is the best, most secure shelter to
defend and save the entire world, and only through those
engaged in Torah will rescue and salvation come," said HaRav
Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz during a talk he gave to bnei
Torah from abroad at Yeshivas Daromah in Bnei Brak. "Only
through those engaged in Torah will rescue and salvation
come, and thus parents back home can rest assured.
"The signs of tzoros and Golus in what is unfolding
before our eyes around the world are signs of the coming
Redemption. When Pharaoh pursued Bnei Yisroel the Torah
relates, `And Bnei Yisroel cried out to Hashem,' and later it
says tefilloh can bring victory, and defeat all of the
nations of the earth."
During his talk Rav Lefkowitz quoted Rabbenu Bachyeh who
writes, "And know that matters surrounding this first exile
hint at this last exile we are now in, with servitude and
suffering waiting, and returning and waiting. And if the
Redemption tarries, it is all only to increase our wages and
to benefit us in the end, by increasing misfortune and
punishment for those who are enslaved among us. Similarly in
this future Redemption when the final redeemer is revealed
hatred will rise up between the Nations and Yisroel, and they
will further enslave us and the redeemer will be revealed and
once again be concealed in order to lead the Nations astray
and to harden their hearts. When the end draws near there
will be more and more severe tzoros, which is a sign
of Israel's salvation" (see end of Parshas Shemos).
"All of Creation was created for Klal Yisroel," continued
HaRav Lefkowitz, "and everything that takes place in the
world is so that Klal Yisroel wake up and come closer to
HaKodosh Boruch Hu through tefilloh. Says the
Medrash Rabboh, `HaKodosh Boruch Hu said for the sake
of this rose, the garden will be spared' (Shir Hashirim
2:2), and in the merit of Torah and those who study it,
the world will be spared.
"People are seeking various means and devices to save
themselves from the terror of war, yet we have nothing to
lean on other than our Father in Heaven. The greatest rescue,
the most secure shelter are botei knesses and botei
medroshos where people sit and learn Torah. We must
strengthen ourselves in tefilloh and pray for Klal
Yisroel. [We must] feel HaKodosh Boruch Hu's sorrow,
for 'imo Onochi betzoroh.' We must pray from the
depths of our hearts and improve our Torah learning, our
ma'asim tovim and our acts of chesed. Then we
can be assured that HaKodosh Boruch Hu will defend and
watch over us, and we will merit the complete Redemption
speedily in our days, Amen."
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