Residents of the Pardes Katz neighborhood in Bnei Brak told B’Chadrei Chareidim about the tremendous neis they experienced when an Iranian missile hit a school building.
The missile struck the Otzer HaChaim Bais Yaakov school, causing it to collapse and seriously damaging the neighboring ALEH rehabilitation center and the Mishkenot Shimon shul and other nearby apartment buildings, killing Avraham Cohen, H’yd.
The school, which only a few days ago was bustling with hundreds of students, is now a pile of rubble.
Several hours before the missile strike, several teachers cleaned out the school’s bomb shelter so that the neighbors could use the shelter during the sirens. [Since the buildings in the neighborhood are old, the apartments don’t have individual safe rooms [mamadim] and some even lack communal bomb shelters.] They locked the shelter when they were finished and left the keys with one of the neighbors who lives next door to the school.
During the siren on Monday at 4:15 a.m., the neighbors rushed to enter the shelter but found it locked. With no choice, they quickly fled to another shelter.
Just seconds after the siren ended, the missile fell in a huge explosion on the building and completely destroyed it, with the force of the blast damaging nearby buildings as well.
The residents of the area later discovered the details of the nissim. The neighbor who had the key to the shelter slept through the siren. The missile fell on the front of the building and not on the back, which could have resulted in many casualties, chalilah.
“חסדי ה’ כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו רחמיו.”
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Keep shelters open and do not lock them during a war.
Keep shelters prepared, do not start cleaning them 3 days after a war starts.
Do not rely on miracles.
How can the Editor at The Yeshivah World call the missile that hit Bnei Brak in the early hours of Mon. 16/6/2025 and killed Avraham Cohen a נֵס? 🤦 You have a very twisted interpretation of what a miracle is. You are trying to infer positive השגחה פרטית has taken place when the opposite is the case. This incident, like all the other Iran related ones in the last six days in Israel that have killed, maimed, injured and displaced people, is a tragedy that 100% could have been avoided.
A True Story: In late May 2014 on our fourth extended stay in Israel since early 2012, I made two visits, alone, to Bnei Brak. (Caroline had returned to Paris by then). I specifically wanted to visit the Lederman shul, Rashbam Street 19, next to Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s home. (No one suggested this course of action to me. I was staying at Ruth Ouzana’s flat in North Tel Aviv at the time.) I attended the Lederman shul on a Thursday and then a Friday morning, spending a total of five hours there, quietly reading and curiously enjoying the ambience. There was hardly anyone there at both those times. Before I left Israel on 6th June 2014, I proposed a set series of corrective/redemptive moves aka “The G-d Algorithm” for various key issues affecting the country and its people. These were not heeded unfortunately and the rest, as they say, is history.
On Mon. 16/6/2025 morning an Iranian missile hit a residence in Bnei Brak not far from the Lederman shul. קישוריות הדדית Prayers for the deceased and injured.
Take Note: The G-d Algorithm still applies and can be implemented. ⚠ Better late than never…
נביא כמוני יקים לך ה’ אלהיך מתוך עמך ושמעת אל נביא כזה.
Adam Neira
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The picture looks like Gaza & a Jew was killed.
I guess we have bought in to the Secular idea of “Low expectations”
One Jew killed is a Neis because it wasn’t two. So I guess the Holocaust was also a Neis because it was 6,000,000 killed when it “could have been” 6,000,001.