Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi of the city of Safed and one of the most important rabbis in the religious sector, hints in an article to be published tomorrow (Friday) in the Shabbat bulletin "Olam Ketan" distributed in synagogues, that there is justice in the severe earthquakes in Turkey, which claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people.
In the article, the rabbi begins and mentions the drowning of the Egyptians in the Red Sea after the Exodus, and links this event to the earthquakes, due to the political positions of the countries from which the victims came.
"There is no doubt that anyone who would have seen the Egyptians drowning in the sea and would not have remembered the whole event from beginning to end, would have been filled with great pity for them and tried to save them from drowning, but the Israelites said Shira because they knew the Egyptians and understood that these drowning people wanted to kill some of them and continue to enslave the rest. They said poetry because they understood that there is divine justice here intended to pay the Egyptians who drowned the children of the people of Israel in a light that all the wicked in the world will understand and be afraid of."
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Shmuel Eliyahu, photo: Union of Community Rabbis
Rabbi Eliyahu cites a prophecy of the prophet Ezekiel which states that after Kibbutz Goliyot, there will be revenge on all the nations around us that have harmed us.
"God is passing judgment on all the nations around us who wanted several times to invade our land and throw us into the sea. Syria abused its Jewish residents for hundreds of years in the bloodshed of Damascus and others, invaded Israel three times to destroy, kill and lose," he wrote.
About Turkey he wrote that "we don't know what the accounts of Heaven are with Turkey, which has slandered us in every possible arena, but if God reveals to us and tells us that he is going to execute judgments on all our enemies, we only need to look and understand what is happening around us... We need to understand that it is for our benefit. .. We will know that everything that happens is to clean the world and make it better."
Attempts to rescue trapped people from a collapsed multi-story building, photo: Yossi Amar / Ihud Hatzla
"It's not that we are impervious to the sorrows of mankind, absolutely not, but if we don't say thank you to God for watching over us, it's a favoritism. If we think it's an accident, it's heartlessness. If we think we're more merciful than him, it's wickedness and stupidity. The song of the sea directs us To know that God is more merciful than all. To understand that the drowning of the Egyptians in the Red Sea is to save the world from evil and to save the world from tyrannical regimes of insatiable exploiters. To save the world from the idols of those who invented the "gates of impurity".
Rabbi Avraham Stav wrote on Twitter that "It just hasn't stopped me since this morning. The thought that the whole world is in tears in front of the terrible sights and stories in Turkey. And we, the people who brought to the world the good news that every person is created in Tselem, are supposed to rejoice in these atrocities and thank about them in 'The Soul of Every Life'."
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