The Ziggy Story - What did G-d want?
In 1991, there was a long road that led up to Ner Israel. Today the road is gone, but imagine if you will for a moment a long straight road surrounded by trees on each side. At the end of this road is a stately-looking building, the main building of Ner Israel.
Now, imagine if you will, that it is Purim time, and the senior class (us I guess, although I don't think I was invovled) put a large wooden half-circle head with a nose hanging down on the roof, so that when you drive up Yeshiva Drive, it appears that Ziggy is peeking over the building at you. There are also large fingers that hang over the building, so it looks like he is holding onto the top of the building.
Keep that in mind for a minute, we'll get back there.
For some reason, I had a lunchtime Chavrusa, a Junior from Hamilton named Josh. Every day josh and I would sit at the same table, and learn Navi. We chose Divrei Hayomim, because we were told it was all names and should be easy for us to translate.
Purim has been over for a few weeks, and the powers that be in the yeshiva have urged my classmates to take the Ziggy down. As they are taking Ziggy down, he falls, and on his way down to the ground, he shatters a window in the Beis Medrash, spraying little pieces of colored glass all over the table where Josh and I learn at every day. At the exact time that Josh and I usually learning.
Except on this day, for some reason, we did not learn together. Others who were in the Beis Medrash at the time tell us of the lous crack of the glass and how we would have possibly been seriously injured had we been learning there that day. They declare it is a miracle that we weren't there.
The rabbis, of course, have a different take on this. Had we been sitting there and learning, they declare, the Ziggy would have never fallen in the first place. It was only because we skipped our seder that day that the Ziggy fell.
Obviously I don't know who was right. Was it the people who declared it was a miracle that we skipped learning that day, or the rabbis who said we could have prevented the whole thing by just showing up that day?
Now, imagine if you will, that it is Purim time, and the senior class (us I guess, although I don't think I was invovled) put a large wooden half-circle head with a nose hanging down on the roof, so that when you drive up Yeshiva Drive, it appears that Ziggy is peeking over the building at you. There are also large fingers that hang over the building, so it looks like he is holding onto the top of the building.
Keep that in mind for a minute, we'll get back there.
For some reason, I had a lunchtime Chavrusa, a Junior from Hamilton named Josh. Every day josh and I would sit at the same table, and learn Navi. We chose Divrei Hayomim, because we were told it was all names and should be easy for us to translate.
Purim has been over for a few weeks, and the powers that be in the yeshiva have urged my classmates to take the Ziggy down. As they are taking Ziggy down, he falls, and on his way down to the ground, he shatters a window in the Beis Medrash, spraying little pieces of colored glass all over the table where Josh and I learn at every day. At the exact time that Josh and I usually learning.
Except on this day, for some reason, we did not learn together. Others who were in the Beis Medrash at the time tell us of the lous crack of the glass and how we would have possibly been seriously injured had we been learning there that day. They declare it is a miracle that we weren't there.
The rabbis, of course, have a different take on this. Had we been sitting there and learning, they declare, the Ziggy would have never fallen in the first place. It was only because we skipped our seder that day that the Ziggy fell.
Obviously I don't know who was right. Was it the people who declared it was a miracle that we skipped learning that day, or the rabbis who said we could have prevented the whole thing by just showing up that day?
posted by Air Time at 11:27 AM
14 Comments:
ziggy. THAT'S the name I couldn't remember. Great story.
the story goes of the guy who's car went off the road on a cliff and miraculously he was saved. He went to the rabbi and wanted to do a complete tshuva and give a lot of charity and all to thank god for saving him.
The rabbi said, obviously we will accept everything you want to give and repentence is a very positive step as well.
But think for a moment. Who do you think pushed you off the road.
I think if G-d wanted to strike you down with broken gkass he would have found another way to it, if you foiled his plans by not learning that fateful day
The road is gone, but if you look closely you can see where it used to be.
If you have not been up there I highly recommend at least driving by just to see what has happened to their idyllic setting.
what do you mean "the road is gone"??
If you are on bathhurst, standing right in front of the country club across the street, and you look at Ner, there is NO ROAD going straight up to the building. You can see where the road used to be, and I think there is still a sign that had the address, but that road is gone.
If you look a bit toward the south, there is a winding road that has development all around it, and you can take that to New. The building looks very out of place, surrounded by a chain link fence and signs that warn trespassers to beware.
We drove up to the building, drove around to the back, and then went back out to Bathhurst when we were in Toronto a few weeks back.
wow. Wierd. I haven't the place in ages. Why would they have taken the road away? Chain link fences? That's nice. Maybe a little barbed wire on top to finish the look?
I live a few stoplights south of the yeshiva, and I thought the road is still there...with the yeshiva beside the muslim school.
Guess I have to take a drive up that way...
Pearl, there is a road that goes up to ner, but it curves a bit and it has been moved over a bit
Shu, I don't think God's plans are ever "foiled". I think it's the other way around...
veev, thats what frededom of choice is. god decided to throw glass at air. air used his freedom of choice not to get hit by glass. If god wanted to get him he would have to try another way.
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