Leil Shimurim: Hashem Eclipsed our Enemies
They say that seeing is believing In our age of technical wonders and artificial intelligence, we know that when it comes to “photographs” or “video, seeing is not necessarily believing. They can be easily altered, and it is close to impossible to know when they are “fake.” However, when it comes to natural things that we see with our own eyes, we still take it as true that “seeing is believing”. Moreover, the notion suggests that one cannot truly comprehend an event or phenomenon until and unless one sees it for oneself. That might be true about many things, but I beg to differ, at least for two events this past week. One of them was the solar eclipse that we missed here in Israel. We didn’t get to see it, but the accounts shared by those who experienced totality describe a fantastic phenomenon. It's depicted as an awe-inspiring, almost surreal encounter that makes one feel the greatness of our Creator like few others. Virtually all recount how incredible it was to watch the m...