"The Weirdest" Yom Yerushalyim weather ! (Re: Thoughts about the 40th Yom Yerushalyim)

moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ken Bloom <kbloom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Who was it here that once mentioned their theory that the mashiach
would come on Yom Yerushalyim 5767, 40 years after the Six Day War?
The appointed time has come.

Well, Moshiach did not arrive yesterday but...

We had the _weirdest_ weather you can imagine - heavy rains, thunder
and lightening, and _hailstones_. And that in the second half of the
month of _May_. And the day started out warm and fine. I even walked
to work in my shirtsleeves! ....

YOU AIN'T KIDDING about WEIRD!!

Yesterday I figured "Hey! What can I lose by going to the Kotel for Minchah?"

Well, on the way to Sanhedriya from Ramot Bet, "the sky opened up" (as in Parashat Noach's "Niftechu arubot hashamayim!!" and it began *teeming* with hailstones coming down as well. Note that this is a week after we had temperatures in the 90's!

Anyway, getting to the Old City on the Number 2 bus, I thought a water main had burst somewhere, as water was shooting up like a miniature geyser. That was until I saw the same thing repeated in about 5 places, and I then realized that it was a case of the storm sewers being inadequate to handle that much rain. Riding by the Eastern Wall, the streets looked like The Canadian Niagara Falls' Whirlpool Rapids (for anyone who has been there), so fast was the water streaming. I then saw a policeman dressed in a rain suit whose motor scooter JUST FLOATED AWAY IN THE CURRENT! Amazing!

The roads were so traffic-clogged that the ride which normally takes anywhere from 15 to 25 minutes (from Sadigora in Sanhedriya to the Kotel, coming into the Old City near Sha'ar Shekhem (Damascus Gate / Bab al 'Amud) and passing the Northern, Eastern, and Southern Walls) took an hour and-a-quarter. Getting to the center of town with the 38 bus wasn't much more fun, or much quicker.

I THINK my sandals ought be just about dry by now! :-)

See Shmuel I 12:17-18 for a similar story. BTW yesterday was the
Yahrzeit (anniversary of the death) of Shmuel Hanavi!

Yes, and the bus company had extra buses going to Kever Shmuel HaNavi (the Tomb of the Prophet Samuel, located, unsurprisingly, in Nebi Samwil, as the Arabs call Shmuel HaNavi).

Moshe Schorr
It is a tremendous Mitzvah to always be happy! - Reb Nachman of Breslov
The home and family are the center of Judaism, *not* the synagogue.
Disclaimer: Nothing here necessarily reflects the opinion of Hebrew University

Yaakov K. (also) in Y-m
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