[This article contains many stories of miracles that took place during the Gulf War that were recorded in Hebrew news articles and did not make their way for the most part, into the English speaking media . The author of this article has written a book, A Light Unto the Nations, which offers strong evidence for the existence of G-d. The author has also written an article in Hebrew, It is a Commandment to attempt to offer Sacrifices at This Time , which carries the written endorsement of Rabbi Israel Ariel, Head of the Temple Institute , Rabbi Dovid Bar-Chaim, head of the Ben-Yishai Institute and Rabbi Moshe Tzuriel, author of numerous works on the writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.]
Introduction
"And David said to Saul [Sha'ul], Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: and I went out after it, and smote it, and delivered it out of its mouth: and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and smote it, and slew it. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Pelishtian [the Giant ,Goliath] shall be as one of them, seeing he has denigrated the armies of the living Lord."
Failure to take past miracles into account, when considering whether to undertake actions to extend Jewish sovereignty over the land of Israel is part of the sin of the spies [meraglim, in Hebrew]. This failure led to the divine decree of death against most the men of the children of Israel between 20 and 60.
As Rashi states, in his commentary on Numbers [Bamidbar] 14:11 "Because of all the miracles which I have wrought for them, they should have believed that there is power in my hand to fulfill my promise".
Given the spiritual state of the generation , some , may find it hard to understand and accept that we got and we will get miraculous assistance.
To resolve this problem, I'll quote from the prophet Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 22 : "I do not do this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations, to which you came".
And similarly Isaiah chapter 59 testifies that the generation that will gain redemption, transgresses and denies Hashem and departs from our Lord, speaks oppression and revolt, conceives and utters from the heart words of falsehood [verse 13]. And similarly of that generation it was said, that truth is absent and he that departs from evil gains the social status of a crazy man [verse 15].
The biblical prophet , Isaiah teaches [chapter 54 verse 2] "Expand the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: do not hold back, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes".
The students of the Gaon of Vilna,(as explained in Rabbi Rivlin's book, Kol Hator, chapter 5 ), believed there are 17 facets of expansion needed to fully fulfill this verse.
All the activities that are contained within the commandment of expansion , it is obligatory to do them and strengthen them without stopping and without delay as the words of the prophecy there [in Isaiah] state, "Expand the place of your tent", etc. "do not hold back" , meaning, don't stop, and "strengthen your stakes".
In the same chapter [of Isaiah] of which we were commanded to "Expand the place of your tent", we have a trustworthy promise "No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that rises with you to judgment, you shall make into the guilty party, this is the heritage of the servants of Hashem [G-d] and their righteousness is from me, says Hashem".
The students of the Gaon of Vilna put their "lives on the line" countless number of times when they emigrated to Israel based on their understanding of biblical prophecy that expansion would bring success. The fact that they did succeed in turning Jerusalem into a Jewish city [as far as population figures are concerned] gives us confidence to follow their analysis of reality when taking future decisions.
As Samuel Katz in Battleground [a book that carries the endorsement of Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Jack Kemp] states (p.100,101) :
"It is clear that by now the state of the country was exacting a higher toll in lives than could be replaced by immigrants. But the immigrants who came shut their eyes to the physical ruin and squalor, accepted with love every hardship and tribulation and danger. Thus, in 1810, the disciples of the Vilna Gaon who had just emigrate wrote : "Truly, how marvelous it is to live in the good country. Truly, how wonderful it is to love our country....Even in her desolation she is unequaled, in her silence there is none like her. Good are her ashes and her stones".
"These immigrants of 1810 were yet to suffer unimagined trials. Earthquake, pestilence, and murderous onslaught by marauding brigands were part of the record of their lives. But they were one of the last links in the long chain bridging the gap between the exile of their people and its independence. They or their children lived to see the beginnings of the modern restoration of the country. Some of them lived to meet one of the pioneers of restoration, Sir Moses Montefiore, the Jewish philanthropist from Britain who, through the greater part of the nineteenth century, conceived and pursued a variety of practical plans to resettle the Jews in their homeland.
With him began the gray dawn of reconstruction. Some of the children of those immigrants lived to share in the enterprise and purpose and daring that in 1869 moved a group of seven Jews in Jerusalem to emerge from the Old City and set up the first housing project outside its walls. Each of them built a house among the rocks and the jackals in the wilderness that ultimately came to be called Nahlat Shiva [Estate of the Seven]. Today it is the heart of downtown Jerusalem, bounded by the Jaffa Road, between Zion Square and the Bank of Israel".
One of the main reasons that Israel experienced many more miracles of salvation from enemy explosions during the time of Prime Minister Shamir than during the time of Rabin was that Shamir was involved in expansion to a much greater degree than Rabin. Rabin signed away to the Arabs, land in exchange for what in essence is a cease-fire agreement with a high tolerance for cheating...
Excerpts from: Miracles of the Gulf War