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Rav Avigdor Miller on Yiras Hashem from Missiles

Jun 8, 2026·1 min read

Q: When Sadaam yimach shemo is buying up scuds or other weapons, what should be our reaction?

A: Now I’m not a general. If I were able to do it, I might destroy him in some way. Secretly maybe, not so publicly. If you would find somebody who will poison him quietly, it wouldn’t be a bad idea. But that’s not the subject now.

As soon as you read about that in the newspapers, know that the purpose is yiras Hashem, to think of Hashem. Say, “Ribono Shel Olam, הפר עצת אויבנו. Ribono Shel Olam, save the Jews in Eretz Yisroel. Eretz Yisroel has so many frum Jews kein yirbu. So many talmidei chachamim, tzaddikim, yekarim, ahuvim. Hakodosh Boruch Hu, have rachmanus on them.”

Now, you’re doing a good thing, but He’s doing you a better thing. It’s done for the purpose that you should utilize that news to pray to Hashem. That’s what it’s for. That’s the achievement that was made for your purpose. They surely should have that to’eles, they surely have to hear that news and they should all cry out to Hashem.

(November 1997)