Three weeks ago, a group of religious Jews came from
Bnei Brak to the non-religious kibbutz, Sufa—near the border with
Gaza—to harvest wheat for Pesach (Passover). They harvest the wheat
every summer when the sun beats down on the fields, thoroughly drying
the wheat. The wheat is then stored until the winter when they start the
production and baking of matzos.
Aharon Samet, owner of the
“Samet” factory producing “tzitzis” (fringes), is the Badatz [a
religious food-supervision company] community supervisor for the wheat
harvest. On a radio program today (July 30th) with Rabbi Moshe Ben Lulu,
Samet told the story of a great miracle which occurred for the people
of Israel thanks to this year’s wheat harvest.
“This year we
are getting ready for the Shemitta agricultural sabbatical year, so this
summer we harvested wheat grain for two years. We searched the whole
country, looking for wheat which was sown late in the season and needed
rain which, specifically, fell late. At Kibbutz Sufa, right next to the
Gaza border, we found an entire field sown in mid-January, which was
considered very unusual, and we found there 2000 acres [sic] of green
wheat which was just right for us,“ said Samet.
“We harvested
the wheat,” said Samet, “and we ran into military police, as well as
undercover and regular police, who came to check out who we were.” The
Gaza air campaign was already underway, and Samet and his colleagues saw
the smoke clouds over Gaza, and heard the sirens while they were busy
harvesting and transferring the wheat to trucks and moving them towards
the cleaning plant near Masmiya for cleaning the wheat, fumigating and
tithing it.
Two days later, 13 terrorists from Gaza came out from a tunnel
which opened into those fields near Sufa. The terrorists had been
planning a big attack, and had been counting on hiding among Sufa’s
giant wheat field–which the matzah makers had just chopped down. The
terrorists couldn’t understand how their camouflage had disappeared.
The
empty field enabled military observers to spot and identify the
terrorists, and open fire on them. Many Jewish lives were thus saved by
the grace of Heaven.
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Yes, this is just a story
about a ‘coincidence’. But then, Jews know that the word, ‘coincidence’
is just another way of saying, ‘the hand of G-d’.
Happy is the nation that recognizes the G-d of Israel.
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