{"id":47443,"date":"2019-05-08T07:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T07:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=47443"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:51:04","slug":"yom-haatzmaut-5779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/yom-haatzmaut-5779\/","title":{"rendered":"Yom Haatzmaut 5779"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why, in Shemoneh Esrei, does the bracha of Kibbutz Galuyot immediately follow Barech Aleinu? Because as the Gemara says, there is no surer sign that Moshiach is coming than the land yielding it&#8217;s produce:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8220;&#8216;\u05d5\u05d0\u05de\u05e8 \u05e8\u05d1\u05d9 \u05d0\u05d1\u05d0 \u05d0\u05d9\u05df \u05dc\u05da \u05e7\u05e5 \u05de\u05d2\u05d5\u05dc\u05d4 \u05de\u05d6\u05d4 \u05e9\u05e0\u05d0\u05de\u05e8 (\u05d9\u05d7\u05d6\u05e7\u05d0\u05dc \u05dc\u05d5, \u05d7) &#8216;\u05d5\u05d0\u05ea\u05dd \u05d4\u05e8\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc \u05e2\u05e0\u05e4\u05db\u05dd \u05ea\u05ea\u05e0\u05d5 \u05d5\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05db\u05dd \u05ea\u05e9\u05d0\u05d5 \u05dc\u05e2\u05de\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great miracles and prophecies are unfolding before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Rav Eliyahu Dessler, Rav Avraham Pam, and Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky on the miracle of the State of Israel and how it saved Jews from giving up faith in God post-Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>The connection between the first bracha in benching &#8211; \u05d4\u05d6\u05df \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05e2\u05d5\u05dc\u05dd \u05db\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5 &#8211; and the second bracha in benching &#8211; \u05e2\u05dc \u05d4\u05d0\u05e8\u05e5 \u05d5\u05e2\u05dc \u05d4\u05de\u05d6\u05d5\u05df is now unfolding before our eyes. Israel not only produces agriculture but teaches developing nations how to use their own resources to grow their own food.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/r-gold-may-7-19.pdf\">Download mekorot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Delivered at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouisrael.org\/\">OU Israel Center<\/a>, May 7th, 2019, 2 Iyyar <\/em><em>5779<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why, in Shemoneh Esrei, does the bracha of Kibbutz Galuyot immediately follow Barech Aleinu? 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