Hamaichin Mitzadei Gaver! Out of thousands of people out, this is who Leiby met!

This is exactly what I though, there is no way so many things happend “coinsidently”.

True but crazy now the question is why?

idk abt that tweet are you saying we shouldn’t do anything to help that this situation doesn’t occur from lectures about teaching our kids not to be so trusting all the way to looking inside ourselves and the community as a whole

Coffee, I didn’t mean that we shouldn’t take any lessons out of this horrible tragedy. Of course we need to all look deeply into ourselves for ways to improve and we need to teach our kids how to keep safe. All I meant is that we will never understand why Hashem chose this pure neshoma of a 9 year old as a korban.

This is just part of the yad Hashem involved in the story. Rav Eisenberger was saying that since this tragedy was shelo al pi derech hateva, the yad Hashem was more intricately involved, because it’s like a neis.

This tragedy has sent a shock wave throughout klal yisroel. I don’t even live in NY, but I am traumatized by this. As a father of little children, I can’t even begin to imagine the pain R’ Nachman and his rebbetzin are going through. It’s yadua that anyone who feels any pain from a tragedy, it’s because HKB”H wants him to get a message. Rabbosai, let’s take the message and improve our ways.

I dont think the point of the whole story was that Hashem wanted us to tell our children not to talk to strangers. It just seems like thats missing the point. I think Hashem wants us to do teshuva. That does not mean that parents should not use this as a spring-board to teach children a lesson but is that the reason why this came about and is that all Hashem wants you to learn?

how do you know adorable?

maybe Hashem is saying wake up you’re in galus act like it!

ca – That wouldn’t make sense. Why should someone have to get hurt to teach you to be careful not to get hurt?

I listened to Rav Fischel Shechter shlit”a discussing this issue (on the chazak hotline). He pointed out that the mere fact that everything was so “incidental” and happened the exact moment it was supposed to happen, goes to show that Hashem is the One Who’s running the show. And once we know that, we feel secure. Although we don’t understand WHY He did it, we know that Hashem’s our Father and does everything for our good. And since it’s so evident that He’s the One Who did it all we can rest assured that it’s for our good only.