Rabbi Chaim Zaid shlita (may he live long) is a beautiful Darshan (preacher) on Eretz Yisrael. He speaks so beautifully, with so much Emunah (to really believe in Hashem), and tells so many stories. I've talked to him a few times a week already, and I just spoke to him again today to verify two stories he said had just happened in Eretz Yisrael after the war. These are such beautiful stories, but he just quoted to me and said I should quote what David Abuchatzeira, the big Mekubal (Kabbalist) in Eretz Yisrael—Rabbi David Abuchatzeira—said. He has tremendous Kedushah—he's a very, very holy man—and Shemirat ha'einayim (guarding of the eyes). The Abuchatzeira family is full of Torah and Yirat Shamayim (fear of Heaven).
He told them that what Hashem taught us after the October 7th massacre, the horrible milchama (war) that we're going through right now, the horrible war of Simchat Torah, is that Hashem is putting us through a school, teaching us Emunah to really believe in Hashem. And he told them that what happened on October 7th was Me'al Derech HaTeva. How those Yimach shemam (may their names be erased) were able to get in like that is still a big question mark; it's unbelievable. It was Me'al Derech HaTeva. And David Abuchatzeira told them to say publicly that if the massacre that happened on October 7th happened Me'al Derech HaTeva, then the message that Hashem wants from us, the Jewish nation, after such a massacre is to work harder, Me'al Derech HaTeva, lema'an (for the sake of) HaKadosh Baruch Hu (the Holy One, blessed be He).
What is Me'al Derech HaTeva? It means it was out of nature; it was not a normal thing, the way that Hamas, Yimach shemam, was able to get in like that. So Hashem is also asking us, Me'al Derech HaTeva, to work harder, go out of your comfort zone, go out of your regular schedule of life, go out of your regular routine, and work harder and do more for HaKadosh Baruch Hu, for Torah and Mitzvot (commandments).