The Wonder, the Fear, the Comfort

I don’t know what got into me one night last week in Jerusalem, early morning, 1:30 AM. Maybe it was the videos I had previously seen, and here I was, in the “Show” myself.

We received, as many times previously in the last 7 days, an Alert that missiles were incoming. Living in Jerusalem, we’ve gotten used to the fact that the missiles from our Iranian ‘friends’ usually aim for the center and North of Israel.

As the Alert remained an Alert, with no notice of having to enter our mamad, safe room, I spontaneously decided to go onto our 12th floor Arnona balcony to see, not sure what I would see, but to see.

Within seconds, I saw with wonder what appeared to be a mass of missiles in the sky, streaking rapidly west, miles from where I stood, but still eliciting a chilling fear in me. Bombs, shrapnel who knows what! I say to myself; What in living hell am I doing on my balcony, seeing these ferocious killer machines in my sightline ?Then, seconds later, I see flashes rising from the ground from a further distance, quickly realizing, Oh My G-D, these are our Iron Dome Interceptors, and I see, with my material, physical eyesight one of them apparently making contact with one of the missiles, a flash of brilliant light and blazing fire appears, one of the missiles has been shot down. I see, not believing what I just saw.
I enter my home into the safety of our mamad and tell my wife.

I was/am in wonder, was in fear, but I am so ever grateful to be a part of this country, that is Israel, the Jewish homeland, that has the Iron Dome, the IDF and IAF to protect us, with G-d Almighty to comfort us in this journey, as partners in history, to withstand everything impeding in our path of creating light and goodness in this world of great, suffocating darkness.

Am Yisroel Chai, for ever and ever.