Posted by
Charles Corban (Chad) Higgins on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:34:01 AM
This one is by Bernie O. Wolf, an American who made aliyah just in time.
I was in the Negev with my partner Dotan when the big earth quake hit. It was cosmic, the magnetism, the arora, psychadelic. I used to do alot of drugs and nothing compared to this. I saw Dotan go flying upside down head over heals as our tent colapesed. He was religious and dressed haradie so it was like something from the Macabie Olympics. I just sat there in the brighness of the night with the heals of my hands cupped into my eye sockets seeing him flying in my minds eye. Then I could hear Dotan yelling he broke his toe or something.
We were there digging. You know, a mitzvah from 2 Kings 3:16 (the 3:16's of the Bible all make a good study by the way). Also, there is Hosea 10:12 where is says plow up your fallow ground till the Lord rains righteiousness on you. There is one in psalms that says people returning to the land bring water to the Negev too. See, I brought it in stages, by returning and them by digging. That's right, me and Dotan never had a blue collar job in our life. But we did blisters and snakes and sunburn because we love Hashem and wanted this end time mitzvah.
Yes, and the "make this valley full of ditches"? That is a quote from Elisha, what he said where there was a previous water miracle in Israel after they dug dithes in faith.