We continue with the Bet Halevi, where he is telling us that in situations that seem hopeless, a person should never give up hope because Hashem has hidden ways and is unlimited in how He can make things happen.
He quotes two pesukim to answer, “If enemies come to harm him….”
One is, “If Hashem is happy with a man's ways, He will cause his enemies to make peace with him.”
Hashem can cause the enemies to make peace. He's in charge of their minds and their thought processes.
Another is that it says about our enemies, “We will see vengeance.” Furthermore, he says, Remember the war of Avraham Avinu with the four kings.
Avraham Avinu defeated those kings, miraculously. He had special miraculous sand that he threw, and the sand turned into bows and arrows.
And there is the story of Nachum Ish Gamzu, who said, Gam Zu Letova, this too is for the best, which has the power to create miracles.
In one well known story, a king issued some kind of decree, so the people decided to send Nachum Ish Gamzu to bring a treasure chest of jewels to the king, to save them. They chose him because miracles happened to him all the time. On his way there, he stopped to rest in an inn and he put the chest under his bed. In the middle of the night, the innkeeper emptied out the gold and silver out of the chest, and so that it wouldn’t feel empty, he filled the chest with dirt from his backyard.
When Nachum got to the king to present his gift, they opened up the chest and found mud.
Of course, their first reaction was, “Off with his head!” But God sent an angel that resembled a minister who was sick that day, to say, “Maybe this is from the dirt that his great-grandfather Avraham used for a war.” They tried it, and sure enough, the dirt turned into arrows. Nachum went back as a hero, with much gold and silver.
Obviously, that's not happening to us.
Avraham Avinu won the war, and we are told to remember those wars, but you say to yourself, “What in the world does that have to do with me? These miracles are not happening to me.”
The answer is, miracles happen today as well, in hidden ways.
Someone told me the story of one of the videos going around. A certain soldier said he has seen many things, but this was the most open miracle that he saw. They were sitting in Gaza and the meal was tuna, which was not very edible, so they would smoke the tuna by heating up the can, giving it a better flavor.
This soldier was trying to do this, but one of his fellow soldiers said, “What are you crazy? There is live ammunition here! If you're light a fire, who knows what could happen?” So, he took the can of tuna and hurled it away.
Just then, they heard shooting, so they started shooting at the spot where the shooting was coming from, which was toward where they threw the can of tuna. Eventually, they saw a white flag, and a group of Hamas terrorists came out of a tunnel.
It seems that this can of tuna made a direct hit on the tunnel opening, and the terrorists thought it was some kind of bomb, and that they were under attack, so they shot back. In doing so, they revealed their position, and they were caught.
That's not dirt turning into arrows. That's tuna fish cans turning into bombs. It’s the same thing, just one's open and one's hidden. Those kinds of things happen today as well, if we believe.
That's what the Bet Halevi is telling us. Hashem’s ways are limitless and there's no way for us to figure out how or what He'll do in order to save us.
We should be zoche, in the merit of our bitachon, to see such hidden miracles.
Have a wonderful day.