JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On Erev Shabbos, Professor Ofer Marin, the director of the Shaarei Tzedek hospital visited the injured people recovering from the bomb blasts in Jerusalem accompanied by hospital rabbi Moshe Peleg and Hagaon Rav Asher Weiss who is the halachic authority for the hospital.
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Prof. Marin with Rabbi Asher Weiss and Rav Moshe Peleg
The three visited a 62-year-old man who is recovering after undergoing a number of operations to remove fragments from his body. The man surprised the visitors by showing them a Tehillim which he had with him at the time of the bombing, as he was planning to travel to Meron.
One fragment hit the back cover of the Tehillim and tore
the pages but stopped at Tehillim 124 with the verse “Our soul escaped like a bird from the hunters’ snare; the snare broke, and we escaped.”
The injured man who requested to remain anonymous allowed the picture of the torn Tehillim to be published and stressed that “this is what can help.”
According to some commentators, this pasuk refers to Yishmael who tries to trap Jews but they succeed in escaping.