What Do You Call a Missile That Never Lands?

The final days of Pesach lifted something within us. Our Shul services elevated our spirit and reawakened our longing for freedom and redemption. (Not to mention our longing for a soft piece of challah!)

Last night we celebrated with an epic afterparty that has become a cherished Central tradition, Mimouna. A beautiful gift from our Sephardi brothers and sisters, celebrated across Israel, Morocco and beyond.

On the 7th day of Pesach, we read Shirat HaYam, the Song at the Sea. It is the moment of undeniable miracle. Waters split, a nation walks through, and history is transformed.

Those were the good old days of miracles, you may think.

But while we were retelling those ancient wonders, the world has been living modern day miracles in real time.

For decades, Israel’s enemies openly declared their goal: to destroy Israel.  They planned a coordinated assault from every direction – north, south, within, and even from Iran itself.  Experts warned of catastrophic loss.

Thousands of missiles have been launched toward Israel. Each one intended to destroy lives.
Many are intercepted. Some, tragically, are not.
But when we step back and see what could have been, we begin to recognise not only strategy… but miracle.

How many of those interceptions were seconds from impact. Metres from homes, schools, families. How many lives were spared.

This is not just strategy or precision.
This is thousands of miracles unfolding every single day.

We call it technology because we have grown accustomed to miracles dressed in plain clothing. The question is not whether miracles are happening. The question is whether we are willing to see them.

Much of the Haggadah does not only recount past miracles, it points us toward future ones. When we say “dam v’esh v’timrot ashan” we are not only remembering what was, but acknowledging what still unfolds.

Not only then. But now.

We are living in an age of miracles. Not seas that split before our eyes, but tragedies that never happen. Headlines that almost read differently.

Take the story of “Dude 44”. A wounded American airman hiding for nearly two days in enemy territory, rescued in what was described as finding a grain of sand in the desert. When he finally made contact, he said three simple words: “God is good.”

This is the latest chapter in 3,338 years of Divine providence since the Exodus. On an ancient Egyptian monument it once declared: “Israel has no seed.” A nation with no future.

And yet, here we are.

Perhaps that is the greatest miracle of all. Not only that G-d appears in extraordinary moments, but that He remains present in the ordinary ones. All we have to do is open our eyes.

Pesach may be over, but its message lingers.

If we learn to see the miracles around us, the salvation within the “almost,” we begin to live differently. With deeper faith, greater gratitude, and an awareness that we are never alone.

Because the same G d who split the sea… is still guiding the waves.

Let’s carry that clarity and inspiration into the weeks ahead.

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A reminder that we begin shule Services tonight at 5:30pm, Please join us for a L’Chaim at 5:00pm

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Levi and Chanie