Tel Aviv, Israel - Tehillim Spares Rabbi's Life

Tel Aviv, Israel - Amid the aftermath of the Palestinian suicide attack that killed nine comes news of a rabbi's life that was spared when a Tehillim (book of Psalms) held in a pocket next to his heart was ripped in two by a piece of shrapnel.

Rabbi Avishai Batshvilli and his wife were among the people near Tel Aviv's old central bus station when the suicide bomber blew himself up yesterday as Israelis celebrated the fifth day of the Passover holiday. Along with the dead, more than 60 were wounded, at least 10 of them seriously.
The rabbi's son-in-law said that his father-in-law "had a small Tehillim in his shirt pocket next to his heart. One of the (pieces of) shrapnel penetrated his jacket and hit the Tehillim tearing it in two," he said. "I am now holding this Tehillim, it's unbelievable, this fragment could have entered his body, Heaven forbid."

Batshvilli and his wife, have been hospitalized with moderate injuries.