Muttar for a Rabbi to discuss the awful shooting on Shabbos?

Imaofthree

I dont see why a Rabbi must mention it at all and who is she to “tell the Rabbi” what he should be mentioning. He is the Rabbi for a reason, he knows what the kahal needs to hear be it a dvar Torah on the parsha or a dvar halacha or whatever.

Additionally, we have enough things going on in our own communities to say Tehillim for. If you want to say Tehillim for them go ahead but it has never been the minhag in klal yisroel to say Tehillim for non Jews brabim in shul. In fact most shuls only said Tehillim brabim during the rocket barrage issue in eretz yisroel. So it would be extremely strange and unhear of to be saying Tehillim in shul for them. Lets be busy with our own issues. There are enough non Jews (311,591,917 million people living in the USA) to say psalms pray and give charity for for them. They dont need our Tehillim.

WIY, your lack of sympathy is disturbing. She didn’t ask why the shul did not say tehillim. She asked why it wasn’t mentioned. A Jewish child was killed but that is not the point. This was a horrific tragedy and we will be mourning those poor children’s lost lives forever.

Some news outlets have also identified Ben Wheeler as jewish.

Noah Pozners twin sister and older sibling survived the shooting

Morah Rach

“My sister is wondering why her Rabbi did not discuss the shooting during his drasha or say Tehillim”

I have plenty of sympathy.

I feel a strong moral imperative to say prayers for and offer help to suffering people, Jewish or not, where I can. I have a Catholic relative who went to a concentration camp to protest how Jews were being treated by the Nazis…it is absolutely necessary to reach out to help the rest of humanity. We are all G-d’s creations.

I do not know what is wrong with someone stating that they are more concerned over Jewish tragedies.

I view other Jewish people as extended family and I think it is natural for someone to feel more concern over members of their family then other people.

Of course this does not mean that my heart does not go out to thos eparents suffering from this horror right now, however I do not view non-jewish people in the same way as I view Jewish people.

Which I am sure is the same way vice-versa.

Ex. Several years back during the Second Intifada I was in the car with a group of people in the the US.

We got word there had been a bombing in a certain part of Israel.

I asked urgently if it was in the Chareidi section of that city.

Someone else blew up at me.

How can you even ask that, and irreligous jews mmean nothing to you.

I kept quiet rather then explain I have a vast number of reletives throughout Isreal.

However the person who blew up at me came to understand it on his own.

The next day I recieved word my first cousin was in the blast and her child was killed instantly R’L and she, and her husband sustained severe injuries (that have left their mark till today).

My point is that we are naturally more concerned with our own then with others.

Of course if someone would view themselves as an equal member of the non-jewish community this would not apply.

In my arrogant opinion, the natural inclination for a Jew is rachmanus and chesed. That is why Jews typically fail certain mitzvot which require the suppression of this natural inclination.

It is natural to be more concerned with our own than with others, just as we would be mroe concerned with our own immediate mishpacha, versus other Jewish families. Kal v’chomer, Jews over non-Jews. But that said, no one could possibly listen to these reports and not feel anhuish for ALL the families including those of the adults who were martyred, even as they tried to save the children.