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Doctors’ Plot, (1953), alleged conspiracy of prominent Soviet medical specialists to murder leading government and party officials; the prevailing opinion of many scholars outside the Soviet Union is that Joseph Stalin intended to use the resulting doctors’ trial to launch a massive party purge. On Jan. 13, 1953, the newspapers Pravda and Izvestiya announced that nine doctors, who had attended major Soviet leaders, had been arrested. They were charged with poisoning Andrey A. Zhdanov, Central Committee secretary, who had died in 1948, and Alexander S. Shcherbakov (d. 1945), who had been head of the Main Political Administration of the Soviet
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Rabbi Yakov Saacks, The Chai Center, Dix Hills
As a Rabbi, I study many topics of Jewish interest. I have my daily regimen but I also try to study something I have not known (or forgotten) before. In preparing for a lecture series on modern-day Israel, I learned quite a few interesting facts that I had not known, and in the process came across a fascinating theme. Namely, miracles.
TWO TYPES OF MIRACLES
UPROOTING NATURE
There are two types of miracles that can occur. The first miracle is one that shatters and defies nature. One example is when G-d split the sea at the time of Exodus. This miracle took water, which has the tendency to keep on flowing, and caused it to stop flowing and instead started building upon itself into a towering aqua edifice. This caused a literal break in the water and dry land could be seen between the two immense pillars of water.