Faith or Political Solution? The Power of Prayer Versus Reality | The Daily Strengthening from the Holy Words of Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a

In a world that sanctifies quick solutions, faith is sometimes perceived as a naive stance. Prayer seems like an escape, and the righteous are considered good people but not 'practical.' However, those who are familiar with the inner worlds know: precisely there, in the place where there is no noise and no headlines, true influence occurs. In his holy words, our teacher, the esteemed Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, illuminates the power of prayer and self-nullification, the way in which simple faith sweetens judgments far more than any political plan. These are his holy words: Richard Nixon (President of the USA from 1969 to 1974) with Kissinger, who are the greatest lovers of Israel in the world. Kissinger was Jewish, he testified that he would conduct a Passover Seder, he would conduct a Passover Seder, truly a sweet, sweet Jew - he wanted to give the land to the Arabs. Just like now, give everything to the Arabs and there will be peace - there will be Arabs here who will rule and eliminate all the Jews. There will be no Jews, so there will be peace, the solution is a simple solution. During the Yom Kippur War, Kissinger said, they need to give everything to the Arabs, because they had 100 MiGs (Soviet planes), and it is forbidden to blow up MiGs, it is private property, it is theft, what they did was against Halacha. This was in 5727 (1967), I was 30 years old and we were in the field, we shouted in the field. The police came and asked: What are you shouting here? War! Forbidden! You are signaling the enemy to come. So we returned from Ponevezh, by 7:00 in the morning we had already finished the Amidah prayer - 400 planes were destroyed, all the MiGs were destroyed, not a single plane remained. The tanks were destroyed, everything was destroyed, how did they do such a thing? The theft from a non-Jew is a Torah prohibition, you committed a Torah prohibition. He threw a shoe at the Israeli ambassador to the UN. Threw a shoe at him, you are criminals, thieves, murderers, it is not for nothing that they say that the Jews are murderers. They blew up all their planes, not a single plane remained. The MiG is such a tiny thing, so they hid it under passenger planes, but the Jews went down and blew up everything for them, they knew where they were hiding it. It was truly a Torah theft and he does not forgive to this day. He does not forgive, he wants them to return the MiGs to him.