The father of one of the Golani soldiers who survived the Hezbollah drone strike at the training base in Binyamina on Sunday evening shared the neis his son had experienced in the zechus of Mayim Achronim.
The father told Kol B’Ramah Radio on Monday afternoon: “Last week, they decided to have the soldiers eat in shifts due to concerns about attacks. Last night, they entered the dining room for supper and one of the soldiers asked my son and his friends to join him for zimun. They got up to to wash their hands with Mayim Achronim at the water fountain outside the dining room.”
“On their way out, they heard the drone and saw it crash into the dining room. He and all the soldiers from the unit who were sitting closest to the impact site were saved in a neis in the zechus of the mitzvah of Mayim Achronim.”
The father, who works in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, told his friends and acquaintances on Monday about how his son was spared, causing a Kiddush Hashem and chizzuk in the mitzvah of Mayim Achronim.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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It is HASHEM who protects us NOT the IDF!
You’re right David. And it’s Hashem that clothes you, not your pants and shirt.
What is truly amazing is that the mishna in eruvin says soldiers (at a battle camp) are peturim from netilas yadayim, and the gemara explains that that is for mayim rishonim, but that they are still mechuyavim in mayim acharonim!
What about the people who rely on the opinion in the shulchan aruch that we do not need to wash mayim acharonim today because we don’t have melach sedomit? Does Hashem want them blown up? That puts me in an awkward position.
now imagine if they would remove themselves from avoda zureh