Reply To: Six-Day-War Major-general “There was a Siyata diShmaya”

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AviraDeArah
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Smerel, i don’t believe you’re understanding his intention properly. Everything is min hashomayim, and he reminds us of this in many, many places. His point was the the gedolim said that the 6 day war was a war like the American revolution, civil war, gulf war, and countless others that were within derech hateva. His explanations, citations etc are meant to explain that the war was not a neis, not that it’s not min hashomayim – those are two very, very different ideas

When you go to work and bring home a paycheck, when you take Tylenol for a headache, you are both acknowledging that it’s Hashem behind the curtain, and that He’s running your life through derech hateva. When the Tylenol works or the boss gives you a check, it’s not a neis that’s outside Teva, it’s a neis that is “al nisecha shebechol yom emanu”, “miracles”that are with us always… But we don’t say halel on that, and we’re not even allowed to, as chazal say about someone who says halel everyday…

If someone says that America winning the iraq war was a neis, you’d say he’s wrong – it’s absolutely min hashomayim, but it’s not a neis, because America has an exponentially greater army than Iraq. So too here; Israel had a lot of advantages, so the war was not a miracle at all. The satmar rov said that the only neis that happened was that the soton was so successful in convincing people that a neis had happened.