In a moment that has left many shaken and reflective, fragments from the Iranian missile that fell Sunday in a shelter adjacent to a beis haknesses in Beit Shemesh struck one of the Sifrei Torah, landing precisely in Parshas Zachor, the very parsha that Klal Yisroel read just this past Shabbos.
The parsha, which reminds us of the eternal battle against Amalek and resonates so powerfully with the story of the Megillah, carries profound relevance in these days, as we face a modern-day Persia — Iran. That the shrapnel found its way specifically to those words seemed, to many, far beyond coincidence.
Misplallelim in the beis haknesses stood in stunned silence when they discovered where the fragments had pierced. The sight of the damaged Sefer Torah, struck in the very section commanding us to remember Amalek, was viewed by many as a stirring remez min haShamayim — a call to introspection, teshuvah, and strengthened emunah.
In days when missiles fly and sirens wail, this remarkable occurrence has left the community contemplating the clear and present message: that even amid the noise of war, the Ribbono Shel Olam speaks — sometimes in ways that pierce straight to the heart of the parsha.
Well if the sefer Torah was rolled to the proper place for Maftir, where else would you expect it to hit?
It could have hit any other place in the room, yet it found its way unto the sefer Torah exactly on that spot. That’s the way I look at it.
The Sefer is puusel
It was open to that parsha tho…
So didn’t it hit parshas zachor because the sefer torah was turned to that spot?
Wow! Tremendous! So what’s the message?!
we are not hashems secretarys.
So Matzav, and others, should stop with these “amazing” stories.
The shrapnel didn’t have to hit the sefer torah altogether. It was directed there
Oh, it was open to that spot? Obviously it could not have been Hashem. Never mind………..
Time for klal yisroel to wake up to serious Teshuva and Achdus together as one loving nation so Hashem can send Mashiach already b’karov.
Amazing! The shrapnel didn’t even have to enter the shul at all. And once it did, it could’ve hit anywhere but the Sefer Torah rolled to that parshah.
Thanks for this chizuk!