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Prayer Continues As 10 Tons Of Meteor Explodes
Hundreds injured by surprise visitation from heavens, but not in synagogue in bull’s-eye
WND
A meteor exploded over central Russia today, creating an atomic bomb-size shock wave that shattered tens of thousands of windows, shoved buildings around and injured an estimated 1,200, authorities said.
But it wasn’t big enough to disrupt prayers at a synagogue in the bull’s-eye, where Shliach Rabbi Yechiel Levitin told COL.org, a website focusing on Jews and Israel, “People come here to pray despite the cold, which is minus 8. The congregation prayed as usual, and they along with Head Schliach Rabbi Meir Kirsch were assisting the injured.”
“We heard a huge explosion … but did not know what it was,” Levitin told the website. “There was glass shattering everywhere, people trying to escape – but there was nowhere to run.
“Then we found out it was a meteor from space.”
He said one of the congregants ran outside to see what was happening, and a huge piece of glass fell into the spot where he had been sitting moments before.
“It was clearly a huge miracle,” Levitin told the site.
Not everyone experienced such a miracle, however.
Authorities said the fireball, traveling at an estimated 20 miles per second, blazed across the sky with a white trail that could be seen for hundreds of miles, then exploded, disrupting mobile networks, breaking windows, walls and anything breakable.
