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This was more than luck. This was a miracle, a sign of Hashem’s everlasting protective Hand over His people and His land. There’s no such thing as “luck” – how convenient it is that all these explosives just… didn’t go off. Hashem’s hand is so apparent but the majority of people would view it merely as a coincidence or luck. I suppose the same people would attribute the creation of the world as luck or coincidence too.

Perhaps this is why we have Pesach. On Purim we celebrate Hashem’s hidden miracles and how He can save and redeem Am Yisrael without having to interfere with the natural order of the world. But on Pesach we celebrate Hashem’s overt miracles, where He manipulates nature completely. And He only does this for Am Yisrael.

This is why Am Yisrael’s New Year starts in Nissan, the month of the redemption from Egypt, and the world’s as a whole starts in Tishrei, Rosh Hashana. Creation alone, as miraculous and ingenious as it is, isn’t all-encompassing. Creation shows us Who created the world, but it doesn’t show us He created the world for Am Yisrael. The redemption from Egypt does. This is also why in the 10 commandments, Shabbat is to be observed to both remember creation and the redemption of Egypt.

If we just view everything as “luck,” we are no different than the rest of the world. Our year would only be counted from creation. But we need Pesach. We need to start acknowledging Hashem’s hidden and overt protection over us. And nowhere is it more obvious than in the Land of Israel, where our final redemption has already begun.