The death toll continues to rise in a devastating cyclone which hit Myanmar, Thailand over the weekend. In our first report on Sunday afternoon, YWN reported a death toll of 350 [HERE]. This number was upgraded to 4,000 in our report this morning [HERE], and now Reuters is reporting that Myanmar’s military government has a provisional death toll of 10,000 – with another 3,000 missing.
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And a few years ago we had tsunamis kill hundreds of thousands. The impact is short-lived. We need to remember that this is all b’shvil Yisrael and do Teshuva, especially in this time of Sefira and petiras Talmidei R’ Akiva.
That is beeing an Observent Jew, to take out the news what one must learn from it.
That is why we say the brocho – Haroka haeretz al hamayim everyday, to prevent this type of disaster.
myanmar is not a place in thailand.
myanmar is the country that used be called (and still is, by some) Burma.
i dont believe we say that Brocho to obtain results. i believe we say it in gratitude to the Ribbono Shel Olam for his Great Kindness.