Faith or Political Solution? The Power of Prayer Versus Reality | The Daily

In a world that sanctifies quick solutions, faith is sometimes perceived as a naive stance. Prayer is seen as an escape, and a tzaddik is considered a good person but not "practical." However, those who know the inner worlds know: precisely there, in the place where there is no noise and no headlines, the true influence occurs.

In his holy words, our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, illuminates the power of prayer and self-nullification, the way in which simple faith sweetens judgments far more than any political plan.

These are his holy words:

Richard Nixon (President of the USA from 1969 to 1974) with Kissinger, who were the greatest lovers of Israel in the world. Kissinger was a Jew; he testified that he would conduct a Seder night, he would conduct a Seder night, a truly sweet, sweet Jew—he wanted to give the Land to the Arabs.

Just like now, give everything to the Arabs and there will be peace—there will be Arabs here who will rule and eliminate all the Jews. There won't be any Jews, so there will be peace; the solution is a simple solution.

There was the Yom Kippur War, so Kissinger said, we must give everything to the Arabs, because they had 100 MiGs (Soviet planes), and it is forbidden to blow up MiGs, it is private property, it is robbery (gezel), what they did was against Halacha.

This was in 5727 (1967); in 5727 I was 30 years old and we were in the field, we were shouting in the field. The police arrived and asked: What are you shouting here for? War! It is forbidden! You are signaling to the enemy to come.

Then we returned from Ponevezh; by 7:00 in the morning we had already finished the Amidah prayer—400 planes were destroyed, all the MiGs were destroyed, not one plane remained. The tanks were destroyed, everything was destroyed; how did they do such a thing?

The robbery of the gentile is a Torah prohibition, you committed a Torah prohibition. He threw a shoe there at the Israeli ambassador to the UN. He threw a shoe at him, you are criminals, robbers, murderers; it is not for nothing that they say that the Jews are murderers.

They blew up all their planes, not one plane remained. The MiG is such a small thing, so they hid it under the passenger planes, but the Jews went down and blew up everything for them; they knew where they were hiding it.

It was truly a Torah-prohibited robbery and he does not forgive it to this day. He does not forgive; he wants them to return the MiGs to him.