There simply are no words that are adequate to capture the pain, tragedy, and loss that was suffered in Meiron. Unfortunately, the fact that there are no words and can be no words will not stop people from trotting out the usual platitudes (already heard this from someone and saw the same quoted online b'shem a gadol) that we need to work on sinas chinam and achdus, etc. Please stop. If every tragedy large and small, wherever and whenever it occurs, is an occasion to trot out the same speech about the same issues and same problems that we have had in Klal Yisrael for 2000 years, then the message becomes trite and meaningless. And for those who somehow blame the attendees for what happened or for even holding such an event, please stop. Save making yourself sound like an idiot for some other day. "Sod Hashem li'reiav." Maybe Rashb"Y, the greatest baal sod, has some understanding of what happened on his Y"T, at his kever, but I cannot even begin to grasp at it.
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-- ("Maybe Rashb"Y...has some understanding of what happened"
ReplyDelete'A body into which the light of the soul does not penetrate should be crushed;'*
could the light of the soul of those killed have been so great that a body in our day cannot possibly accept all of it?
'the body will then become receptive to the soul's light, and they will hold together and become luminous.'*
'then', at techiyas ha'meisim...
*Rashb"Y, as quoted at Sichos in English, Chapter 49 (1) [10.]
{yes this is just a fanciful word beside the plainly known, horrific deaths that just occurred. where an informed supernatural explanation is wanted, then in the absence of nevua, "silence" must be the honest course})
-- "I cannot even begin to grasp at it"
but can only ask, 'mah??' [mem = 40, hei = 5...]