We all saw it: an ordinary man, no training, no flight experience, took the controls in mid-air with real danger all around him and brought a full plane down safely. The story stirs something in us, and then the question comes: and me? What can one regular person actually change in the world?
Rav Asher Perkash, a mashpia in Eretz Yisrael, connects that miraculous rescue over Sukkos to Parshas Bereishis and to the moment we are all in now — coming back from the Yamim Tovim into the routine. What are we taking with us into the new year, when the hisorerus of Tishrei meets the daily grind again?
In the shiur for Parshas Bereishis, Rav Perkash asks:
Why was man created alone, when the rest of creation came in multitudes?
What does the statement "the world was created for me" actually obligate us to do?
A miracle from Heaven or human courage — do we have to choose between them?
Why did Chizkiyahu HaMelech not become Mashiach, despite the great miracle he merited?
And what does Yonah HaNavi teach us, going down to sleep precisely when the sea is raging?
Rav Perkash shares divrei Torah he heard from the Lubavitcher Rebbe at farbrengens in Tishrei 5747, forty years ago — words that take on special meaning in light of recent events.
"As one stands on Shabbos Bereishis, so goes the entire year."
Watch now, and go into the new year knowing how much koach lies in each one of us.
