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Car Full of Yeshiva Boys Heading to Camp Explodes – Moments After Everyone Exits

A group of 12 boys from Cleveland were headed to the Catskills, reportedly to Camp Kaylie. Around two hours after leaving Cleveland they smelled gas in the vehicle.

The vehicle stopped a few times to check things, and then proceeded again. The smell grew stronger so the driver stopped and ordered everyone out of the vehicle. Moments later the vehicle literally turned into a fireball.

All their possessions they were travelling with to camp were destroyed including pairs Tefillin, but the group of boys have nothing but thanks to Hashem for sparing their lives.

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12 Comments

  • UNBELIEVABLE!!!

    OY! B”H everyone is safe, but it’s SO hard to loose one’s possessions!

  • Maybe it's time

    Someone sponsor some normal decent cars for shluchim instead of putting teenagers into dangerous donated cars that often have problems with brakes, windshield wipers, , gear problems etc…..

  • car

    Ye I know some 1 who had the exact same situation. With same model of vehicle ………

  • Shmuel Munkis & his "possesions"

    Is it such a loss after all?:

    Shmuel Munkis does it again, inspiring us with a great story, this time with an important moral message. So, we see from here that Reb Shmuel was not just a joker.
    Rabbi Shmuel Munkis moved to the city of Beshenkovitz, Russia. He was highly respected by the Chassidim because he had the rare privilege of being selected as a personal emissary of the Alter Rebbe. He would, often, inspire, teach, and advise many younger Chassidim. Reb Shmuel was giving a farbrengen (a gathering of Chassidim, where a Rebbe or well-learned Rabbi would inspire them with Torah topics and stories, especially Chassidus), when, suddenly, a young man charged in from the outside saying there was a fire in town. One building after another caught fire, including Shmuel Munkis’s house, but, thank G-d, his family was safe.
    Reb Shmuel rushed with his students, and joined the brigade of neighbors, who were at the river, passing buckets of water to each other, in an effort to put out the flames. When the fire calmed, Shmuel watched, helplessly, as his house and all his possessions got burned to the ground. He began to recite a blessing, but, strangely, it seemed that his clear voice sounded joyful! “Baruch Atah Hashem (Blessed are you o G-d)…” So, everyone thought that he was going to accept his fate by praising G-d.…Elokainu Melech HaOlam (our G-d, master of the universe)…”They were waiting for him to say the final words, “Baruch Dayan HaEmes,” which means, “Blessed is the true Judge. But, instead, he concluded with, “shelo asani goy! (for not making me a non-Jew)” “Poor fellow,” they thought. It was too much for him, so he cracked. But those who knew Reb Shmuel better asked, “Reb Shmuel, why did you say the blessing like that?”
    “Think a minute,” Reb Shmuel replied. A religious goy decorates his windows with figures and symbols of idolatry. When his house burns down, so do the images of his ‘deities.’ So, what does he have? Nothing! How can anyone endure such a thing? Now, all my physical possessions have been destroyed, but I did not lose everything. My G-d lives on even after the fire, he will not abandon me; so, for this, I have to be most thankful!”