Dear Arutz-7's precious and loyal listeners, May Hashem bless you from Zion.
"The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone." (Psalms 118, 22)
It's not that the rejected stone later became the cornerstone, but rather that *while* it was being rejected, already then, it was a cornerstone. And perhaps it was rejected precisely because it *was* a cornerstone. And therefore, as the next verse states, "This is Hashem's doing, it is wondrous in our eyes."
We, the students of Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed, shlita, Dean of Yeshivat Beit El and Rabbi of Beit El; we, who have merited learning and analyzing our circumstances from the perspective of "believers sons of believers," know that "G-d is good to all, and His mercies are upon all His creations."
We know that He, the Master of the Universe, Whose goodness is absolute, renews even His very goodness every day. And just like the Talmudic sage R' Yehoshua asked (Tr. Hagigah 3a), "What new thought or ruling was raised in the Study Hall today?", we too ask, "What new aspect of G-d's goodness was manifest for us on the day that we were forced to stop Arutz-7's radio broadcasts and continue them only via the internet?"
We, who have performed this 'holy work' of operating a Beit Medrash-like radio station (Arutz-7) for the past 15 years, know clearly and absolutely that even this temporary decline and fall will serve as a springboard, with G-d's help, for us to rise up even higher and carry out even greater and purer accomplishments.
We will follow the advice of the "living and eternal" King David to his Chief of Staff, Avishai ben Tzruyah, when he was running away from his son Avshalom and while being cursed and stoned by Shimi ben Gera. King David told Avishai,
"Behold, [even] my son who came out of my body, seeks my life - how much more so this Binyaminite [Shimi]? Let him alone, and let him curse, for Hashem has bidden him. It may be that Hashem will see my affliction and will compensate me for his cursing this day." (Sam. II 16, 11)
I have no doubt that we, who have merited to see and feel the pulses and pangs of the Messiah, and the redemption that G-d has delivered in the ingathering of our exiles and in the building of our inheritance and the inheritance of our forefathers, and in our wonderful army, and our heroic and courageous residents of Yesha - people of self-sacrifice and dedication, together with that of the entire Nation of Israel that is suffering so tremendously in acquiring and building the Land of Israel - we will be strengthened and will overcome, and will work, with G-d's help, towards the legislation of a law that will enable, in the near future, the resumption of our broadcasts.
We will do whatever is possible in order to be heard over the radio waves as in the past. Our goal is to enable you, our hundreds of thousands of precious listeners, to continue to learn Torah on our broadcasts, to become strengthened in your love of the Land and the Nation, and to once again hear the "joy and prayer" on Arutz-7.
Ketzaleh