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Rabbi, Are There Open Miracles Today?

Rabbi Chaim Mintz

Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses open miracles in a live class at Oorah's Torah Spot.

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Rabbi am I under the wrong impression I think at one time I thought you said that um we now live in uh in the time of hidden Miracles and in the past it was you know seen Miracles like um the Hanukkah lamp and the splitting of the Red Sea right but I think that we have we have Miracles H seen Miracles now also what you were talking about before about The Six Day War that's not a hidden Miracle that's a hidden Miracle that's a you know that's a scene miracle and the fact that you know when I started coming to Aura was several years ago you gave a she in uh JCC and the topic was the Holocaust and as a child of a Survivor I this is very and you you've lectured on this many times and I've always had a very difficult time understanding what you're saying and accepting it but for some reason tonight when somebody said something about the war so ghetto something about the war so ghetto the miracle was that there were survivors I mean that in itself is a miracle it wasn't supposed you know that wasn't the plan the fact that there were survivors who came out who were able to have children who have grandchildren that in itself is the miracle the war so ghetto with all that was Was Defeated how many Jews were there against how many German soldiers compared to how many polish soldiers against the Germans and they were defeated how much longer did the Jews

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  1. 0:00Rabbi am I under the wrong impression I think at one time I thought you said
  2. 0:30hidden Miracle that's a you know that's a scene miracle and the fact that you know
  3. 1:00something about the war so ghetto the miracle was that there were survivors I mean that
  4. 1:31defeated how much longer did the Jews hold out than the other ones so we are
  5. 2:02outnumbered ridiculously if you look in the books of the wars of the of the world
  6. 2:32splitting the Red Sea it wasn't turning water into blood people it looks like a miracle
  7. 3:02it's it's not a open miracle that cannot be uh denied by other people want to
  8. 3:33says I look at my hand and I look at my body and I see God

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