September 11th

Please see this thread from last year: 9/11 Video

Maybe one day…this writer will have the courage to write his personal experience of the horror that day…..

Just one line I will write to my friend B.E. “You say Shema for both of us, hold my hand and I’ll lead the way….”

I can feel the sheetrock and sand in my throat chocking me right now…

That’s enough horror…I already didn’t sleep a wink last night.

Kisiva Vachasima Tova.

I was a block or so away from the towers when they fell.

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The Wolf

I knew the Beigeleisen fam, they lived in my neighborhood. EDITED his story still gives me shivers up my back every time I hear it

”Ki eshmira Shabbos, K-ail yishmeraini…” – Zemiros L’Shabbos.

“When I safeguard the Sabbath, G-d will safeguard me…” – Sabbath Liturgy

when you have such a passion for a mitzvah, Hashem protects you, seen from this story:

David, an observant Jew was at Logan Airport getting ready to board United Flight 175. He was going to LA on an important business trip and had to make this flight. He boarded the plane, watched the doors close, and sat down.

Suddenly he remembered that he left his tefillin in the terminal boarding area. He politely asked the stewardess if he could go back and retrieve his tefillin, which were sitting just a few feet from the gate.

She told him that once the doors of the plane closed, no one was allowed off the plane. Not about to take this sitting down, he asked if he could speak to the pilot to obtain special permission. Surely the pilot would understand. The pilot did not comply. He simply restated the policy.

David was not about to lose this precious mitzvah, or let the holy tefillin get lost like that, so, not knowing what else to do, he started screaming at the top of his lungs, “I am going to lose my tefillin.” The crew asked him to be quiet, but he refused to stop making a fuss – a rather loud fuss.

Finally, he was making such a ruckus and a tumult that the flight crew told him that they would let him off the plane, simply because he was a nuisance. In fact, even though it would only take about 90 seconds to run out, grab his tefillin, and run back – they were not going to wait for him.

No matter. David was not about to lose his tefillin, even if it caused him great inconvenience or cost his business a loss. He left the plane, never to re board.

This flight was United #175. The second plane to reach the WTC. David’s devotion to a mitzvah saved his life.

The consequences of David’s actions do not end there. Originally the terrorists wanted both towers struck simultaneously to maximize the explosive carnage. Later it was learned that due to this whole tumult, the takeoff was delayed, causing a space of 18 minutes between the striking of the two towers. This delay made it possible for thousands more people to escape alive from both buildings.

Literally thousands, if not tens of thousands, of lives were spared because one Jew would not forsake his beloved tefillin.

I worked in a building abutting the towers and that morning my young daughter missed her van which would take her to school in the Lower East Side of New York.

So I took her by subway train and heard the deafening explosion of the second plane smacking into the building as we got out of the station.

When the towers fell, it seemed like a string of firecrackers going off; starting from the top, one floor popping and then the one below it, on and on.

When the towers collapsed, they were shooting beams like missiles in all direction and many hit World Trade Center 7, a fifty story building which stored many thousands of gallons of fuel throughout the building. The building burned all day and fell toward evening. When this building fell, it created a massive fire ball which entered my office across the street. The heat of the fire melted my computer to the floor and fused my desk drawers together.

It took a long time before my mind could think of other things and not replay this episode over and over. If this was my experience, I can’t imagine what it was like seeing the Bais Hamikdash destroyed.

One thought; I remember how everyone treated each other with the utmost respect and kindness for months afterwards. It’s unfortunate that things eventually went back to the way they were before.

We should never forget that day. Never forget how we acted during the tumult and for weeks afterward. The way we hugged our families, treated our neighbors, let the little arguments fly off without burning a hole in our hearts like it used to. The way the flag of America flew over so many homes and shops, the way we showed appreciation for our country, were PROUD to be an American for they have allowed us to be frum yidden. America has helped us, so we should now help them during their tragedy. How yidden helped Jews and goyim alike, how Jews helped others without regard for their type of hat, nussach of their siddur, or color of their shirt. How the stores gave away water and shoes for those who had to walk home. Our siblings weren’t annoying- we were glad they were there. We appreciated human life in a way we haven’t in a long time. We cared about people we never met, may never see in our entire lives. But they were there, and they needed us, our tefilos, our thoughts.

We became different that day. Our R”H and Yom Kippur were different.

We should never forget how it changed our lives and we should never have allowed us to relapse into our old selves.

Never Forget 9/11/01

ghoulish

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Nope. Feeding on corpses just doesn’t jive with my religious beliefs

Score -1 points for ames for that comment

Touche. I concede defeat.

I heard someone speaking (in 2006) and he brought up the September 11th attacks. It was a moving speech as he dramatically stressed some interesting facts, like “This is the first incident since July 4th, 1776 where the incident is referred to by the date. The Challenger Disaster is not known as January 28th, the assassination of JFK is not known as November 22nd…”

He then paused for a few moments and started talking about the Holocaust. “People are able to deny the Holocaust today because the average person can’t visualize the number six million. The number one hundred thousand sounds much larger, yet it is only one sixtieth the size. Let’s try to look at it another way. The Holocaust was one September 11th every single day for five and one half years. Imagine one September 11th beginning on September 11th 2001, it would still be going on now and wouldn’t end until March of next year!”

I thought I’d bring this up since there are those in the U.N. who deny the Holocaust yet would consider it foolish to try and deny the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001.

ICOT- yes, its sickening how some ppl have the audacity to deny it…

i mean, can you imagine someone getting up and saying “9-11 never happened-” ????????????????????????????????????????

i mamesh don’t understand how holocaust deniers did it…

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Its really crazy about the holocaust because as the generations go on, its so easy for the world to manipulate what really happened.

P.s. Hey Mr. 80- did you remove a ? from emoticons post? Isn’t that overeacting? Or is it just me you do it by 🙂

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There are already people who claim that the plane attacks were fake and that the buildings fell using explosives. Give it 80 years and people will claim the buildings never existed and that all pictures are doctored. People with agendas will find ways to say what they want.