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Please see text of this post by Asaf Rejuwan, one of the Israeli survivors of flight 1073 who wrote on Facebook: reposted by Caroline Glick at end
English follows Hebrew:
*ניסי ה' ועוזו במדינת ישראל
*שלום. הסיפור ערוך. מעשה מההקפות
השניות בחולון*:
*45 דקות של "מזמור לתודה" במרומים*
ברקע שירת ההקפות השניות העירוניות בחולון – אירוע ענק שארגנה ישיבת חולון יחד עם הגרעין התורני, אליו נהרו אלפי אלפי יהודים שרקדו בשמחה אדירה עם ספרי התורה – התרחש מפגש מצמרר מאחורי הקלעים.
בין האורחים שעלו לבמה היה שׁוֹטָה, רופא מאופקים, מגיבורי אירוע סיכול הפיגוע ב"מטוס הניסים" של פליי דובאי. מאחורי הקלעים פגשו את שוטה ואת אשתו סיגלית. שוטה אמר בצניעות: "זה לא אני, זו שרשרת של ניסים! כולם על המטוס היו גיבורים".
משהו בעיניה של סיגלית שידר שיש כאן סיפור עמוק נוסף. כשנשאלה: "תגידי, גם את היית על המטוס?" היא ענתה בפשטות:
"כן. ואני היחידה שידעה להתפלל שם. אז התפללתי בשביל כל המטוס."
"מה עשית?"
"אמרתי 'מזמור לתודה' במשך 45 דקות רצופות."
סיגלית מעידה על עצמה שהיא אישה ביישנית ופחדנית מטבעה. אבל באותם רגעים מורטי עצבים, כשהמחבל ניסה לפרוץ לתא הטייס ובעלה רץ קדימה להסתער עליו, היא הרגישה פתאום כוחות נפש עליונים. "הרגשתי שהשם איתי," היא מספרת, "וידעתי שאני חייבת להרגיע את כולם."
היא נעמדה במעבר המטוס, פנתה לכל הנוסעים המבועתים ואמרה בביטחון מלא:
"תירגעו עכשיו! השם יתברך איתנו. הוא לוקח את המטוס שלנו, מרים אותו, ומנחית אותו כמו מרגרינה בשדה התעופה! אין לכם מה לפחד! רק תתפללו!"
הנוסעים המפוחדים הביטו בה ואמרו: "אנחנו לא יודעים איך להתפלל..."
"אין בעיה," ענתה סיגלית. "אני אגיד 'מזמור לתודה' ו'שמע ישראל' – ואתם תענו אחרי 'אמן'!"
במשך 45 דקות תמימות, ברגעים המפחידים ביותר בחייהם, עמדה סיגלית וקראה בקול תפילה והודיה, וכל יושבי המטוס ענו אחריה 'אמן' כאיש אחד. בחוויה הפנימית שלה, התפילות וההודיה האלו הן שהחזיקו את המטוס באוויר!
מיד לאחר מכן, על הבמה מול האלפים בחולון, הקריא הרב חגי לונדין את דברי ה'נפש החיים' על סגולת "אֵין עוֹד מִלְבַדּוֹ": כשאדם מעגן בליבו את ההכרה שאין שום כוח בעולם חוץ מהבורא, ומשיב לו תודה – שום נזק לא יכול לשלוט בו.
כששמע זאת שוטה הרופא, הוא נדלק, לקח את המיקרופון ואמר בהתרגשות לאלפי החוגגים:
"רבותיי! מי שלא מבין ולא מאמין – לא יודע איפה הוא חי! כל המטוס הזה היה שרשרת של ניסים! היינו אמורים להיות 174 לוויות, ובחסדי השם יצאנו לחיים! עכשיו צריך רק שמחות גדולות בתורה ובשם!"
חשמל של אמונה עבר בקהל. אלפי יהודים קפצו באוויר עם ספרי התורה בשמחה, בקדושה ובאמונה צרופה.
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The story is edited...
*Story from the Hakafot Shniyot in Holon
*45 minutes of "Praise to God" in the heavens*
In the background of the singing of the Hakafot Shniyot in Holon – a huge event organized by the Holon Yeshiva together with the Torah Garin, to which thousands upon thousands of Jews flocked and danced with great joy with Torah scrolls – a mesmerizing encounter took place backstage.
Among the guests who took the stage was Shota, a doctor from Ofakim, one of the heroes of the event that thwarted the attack on the Fly Dubai "Miracle Plane". Backstage, they met Shota and his wife Sigalit. Shota said modestly: "It's not me, it's a chain of miracles! Everyone on the plane was a hero."
Something in Sigalit's eyes conveyed that there was another deep story here. When asked: "Tell me, were you on the plane too?" she answered simply:
"Yes. And I was the only one who knew how to pray there. So I prayed for the whole plane."
“What did you do?”
“I said ‘Psalm 100 for Thanksgiving for 45 minutes straight.”
Sigalit describes herself as a shy and timid woman by nature. But in those nerve-wracking moments, when the terrorist was in the cockpit attacking and her husband ran forward to attack him, she suddenly felt a surge of spiritual strength. “I felt that God was with me,” she says, “and I knew I had to calm everyone down.”
She stood in the aisle of the plane, turned to all the terrified passengers, and said with complete confidence:
“Calm down now! God is with us. He takes our plane, lifts it, and lands it like margarine at the airport! You have nothing to be afraid of! Just pray!”
The frightened passengers looked at her and said: “We don’t know how to pray…”
“No problem,” Sigalit replied. “I will say ‘Psalm 100 for Thanksgiving’ and ‘Shema Yisrael’ – and you will respond after ‘Amen’!”
For 45 full minutes, in the most frightening moments of their lives, Sigalit stood and read aloud a prayer and thanksgiving, and all the passengers on the plane answered after her as one. In her inner experience, these prayers and thanksgiving were what kept the plane in the air!
Immediately afterwards, on stage in front of the thousands in Holon, Rabbi Haggai Lundin read the words of the 'Nefesh Chaim' on the virtue of "No longer alone": when a person anchors in his heart the realization that there is no power ien the world except the Creator, and returns thanks to Him - no harm can control him.
When Shota the doctor heard this, he lit up, took the microphone and said excitedly to the thousands celebrants:
"Ladies and Gentlemen! Rabbosai, whoever does not understand and does not believe - does not know where he lives! This entire plane was a chain of miracles! We were supposed to have 174 funerals, and by the grace of God we came to life! Now all we need is great joys in Torah and in the name of God!"
An electricity of faith ran through the audience. Thousands of Jews jumped in the air with Torah scrolls in joy, holiness and pure faith.
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Asaf Rejuwan, one of the Israeli survivors of flight 1073 wrote on Facebook:
״I don't usually post on social media, but today I felt something burning deep inside me that I simply had to share.
Ever since the incident where the terrorist's attempt to hijack the Flydubai flight was thwarted, there has been a lot of coverage in the media, and I’ve been asked many times what factors I believe prevented the terrible disaster that could have befallen our people had that despicable terrorist succeeded in his plans.
Today, I think I received a very special and interesting answer to that question. Naturally, after the incident ended and we landed safely on the Land of Israel, I felt the need to thank many people... the passengers who cooperated, my lioness of a wife and all the mothers and fathers who protected their loved ones, the children who stayed composed, and every Israeli passenger on that plane.
Yesterday, I was part of a group of passengers interviewed for an international channel. As each passenger went into detail about how they experienced the flight, we realized something very important- something you only understand when the dust settles and you get into the small details during intimate conversations among yourselves.
We realized that every single passenger on that flight had a role, every passenger on the flight had a role.
One passenger was responsible for communicating with Israel's security services
I discovered there was a passenger on board who provided a mobile hotspot and made sure to share it with others
Another female passenger sat and recited Psalms
A passenger made sure to pass along headphone cords to tie up the terrorist
Passengers kept track of where we were going to land using GPS maps
An Australian passenger was the only one on the plane who could make calls back to Israel from an enemy country (Saudi Arabia)
And the list goes on... And, of course, the amazing Yaniv, the wonderful Tzvika and Tali, the hero Shota, the great man Or, and many other great friends who lent a hand.
I had no doubt that after such a great miracle, I would be attending synagogue on Saturday morning to recite the Birkat HaGomel (the prayer of thanking the God of Israel after a lifesaving miracle)
I am not a religious person. I believe in God in my own way, and I don't usually look for signs in everything. But today, something happened that completely astonished me. Completely by chance, today in the synagogue I read from Parashat Devarim (Deuteronomy 33:26):
"There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, and in His majesty rides the skies."
אֵין כָּאֵל יְשֻׁרוּן רֹכֵב שָׁמַיִם בְּעֶזְרֶךָ וּבְגַאֲוָתוֹ שְׁחָקִים
I read the verse, stopped, and got goosebumps, and so did all the other worshippers who knew the story and understood why I was there with them.
After everything that happened on that flight, after the fear, after the storming of the terrorist, and after realizing how thin the line between life and death really was- finding myself facing those exact words, "rides the heavens to help you," was a moment I can hardly explain.
I don't know if it was divine providence, a coincidence, or simply a moment that took on a profoundly deep meaning for me. But today, in the synagogue, as I recited Birkat HaGomel, I felt mainly one thing:
Thank you. Thank you for life. Thank you for the miracle. And thank you for the privilege to stand here and tell the story.
Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱״

