Thursday, February 27, 2025

On the morning of February 1, 2003, the Columbia Space Shuttle, returning from its STS-107 mission, was destroyed upon re-entry, 16 minutes before its scheduled landing. All its crew members perished, including Ilan Ramon, a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, who was the first Israeli astronaut. Prior to his departing to space on Space Shuttle Columbia, where his mission included the manning of a multispectral camera for recording desert aeroso, he arranged to take kosher food as well as a Kiddush cup, a Torah Scroll, and a dollar from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory.

Links: Pride, Pain and the Suddenness of Life; Remembering Ilan Ramon

He made this universe with a plan:
That you will do the impossible.

But if it is the plan, then how could it be impossible?

For you it is impossible.
For Him, anything is possible.

But I am the one who must do it. How am I to do the impossible?

Because He is with you and within you.
And to find Him there, that is possible.