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1. Well put it hits all the notes,
   and it really stirs the soul
   anyone who reads this,
   can’t leave with their heart – whole.

2. wow !!! on the money !!!! kudos !!!

3. Beautifully written…….

   What a shame…..

4. I’m proud to be a YW reader after reading this poem!

   Chazak Chazak Vinischazek!

5. stirs the soul

6. HOW SAD.

7. I have just printed it out for my students to read.

   Todah Rabbah.

8. wow thats is moving poem how sad it true . when people daven and say modim thay should say thanks we have not been punished more i will try an do better . please dont forget hashem like to hear a thank you sometimes

9. EXCELLENT JOB !!!! IM CRYING HELP !!!

10. AMAZING….and very moving!

11. he is realy right we have to stop sleeping and do thuvah

12. Thank you so much,
    for your strong reminder.
    We must all make great effort
    and act kinder.

    We must learn a lesson
    and heed the call,
    and not see any more posts
    of tragedies that befall.

    Thank you Yeshiva World
    for a great site.
    Keep up the good work
    in doing what’s right.

13. YW Editor
    you should pass it on to other religious media so all can read

14. truth from london
    you are 100% correct i once asked the Rosh Hayeshiva Reb Elya Shlita what such stories are m’chayev and he said bigger hakaras hatov for what we do have and that we dont have tzarros

15. Beautiful, touching, and TRUE!!!!

16. from the heart…. if only we would listen

17. I think a good place to start would be LASHON HORAH.

    Why loshon horah? Firstly, it is of the worst aveiros (When Chazal compare it to the gimel chamuros, they say that loshon horah is k’neged kulom).

    But primarily, it is the ONLY aveirah min hatorah that people are oiver every day, b’meized, without qualms or hesitation.

    It is an addiction. It is something that we cannot live without. But there are people who never utter a word of loshon horah. I know such people, you probably also know such people. If they can do it so can we. We must get rid of the addiction. From us, our families, and our communities.

    Let us be mekabel to live our lives “loshon-horoh-free” !!!! It can be done.

18. They come together
    To be husband and wife
    What a joyful simcha
    As they start a new life

    It was hashems plan
    But it makes me cry
    He was such a good man
    Why must he die

    Rachel our mother
    Cry for us,
    Cry for the mother and daughter
    Its a must

    Cry for our sons
    Cry for our fathers
    Cry for the little ones
    Who who were killed by “martyrs”

    We have been in golus for years
    We have shed thousands of tears
    Father, open your heart
    Even though we don’t do our part

    I open my sidder and daven
    To yell avinu shebashomyim
    Put out your hands
    And carry us to our land

    Take back your throne
    so we can all return home

    Enough with all the sorrow
    I’ve felt too much pain
    Father please hear me
    As I try to call your name

    Take us home,We wait till then
    AD MOSI!-till when

19. Beautiful, Beautiful.

    May you have the zechus to write such poetry about Moshiach’s arrival,

    BEMEHAYRA BEYEMAINU AMEN!!!

20. I think it left out the man that was sttabed by arabs ym”s while he was davening I think it happend like 2 weeks ago … but anyway this is a real musser safer .. we should only hear only simchas & joy from now on

21. NOT BAD; NOT BAD AT ALL……….

22. excellent!!!
    made a MARK !!!
    hope we all pray for no more of this to happen !!!

23. Beutiful poem. I would add these thoughts for self improvement in the area of bain adom l’chavero which are sorely needed:

    Don’t double park. Don’t block someone else’s driveway. Don’t honk your horn incessantly. Don’t litter. Blink when you’re make a turn. Don’t run a red light. Slow down when coming to a crosswalk. Let elderly people pass in front of your car without rushing them. Move your car promptly for alternate side parking. Don’t be a cowboy driving your SUV.

24. “I’m certainly not a rav,
    Not a rebba, nor a rebbitzin
    I just want to share an idea”, But sure knows how to write a darn good poem

25. I hope it is not misplaced to point this out. People can and do die at any age. If not, life insurance would be free at those ages. This is not some mysterious and sudden chain of events that has never happened until this point in time. Amongst all people – and not just Jews (frum or otherwise) – there are a number who die at young ages from illness, injury, accidents, or other causes (sometimes inexplicably). The proportion of deaths at these early ages is low compared to deaths at higher ages, hence the subjective feeling that these are early deaths. In fact, up until recently (early 1900’s) life expectancy was below 50.

    If anything, people are surviving now more than ever before to older ages than ever before. There are still young people who die, and there always will be. These deaths are tragic, though not unprecedented. What makes us stand out is our ability to see the victim(s) of each tragedy as people (I am including families as the victims) and not simply as statistics. I admire anyone who can continuously do that (especially when hearing about a stranger).

    This is the way of the world. The commentary on events like these should be empathy – the ability to feel the pain of another’s loss – not exclaiming that the tevah has changed and all of a sudden young people are dying.

26. The poem was written well and with meaning and emotion, I could not help but cry as I read through the paragraphs of tragedy after tragedy. I have forwarded this poem on to many people. Thank you to whoever wrote it & lets all remember to keep P.U.S.H. ing -that is Pray Until Something Happens !! We have to keep davening to Hashem with tears and real kavanah thats our only weapon & Hes the only One that can help us!! May we have weeks ,and months of YW updates of many simchos in klal yisroel!!

27. well said. need to read this every single day.

28. yasher coach well done thank you very much !

29. stirs the soul…

30. This brought tears to my eyes.

31. YW Editor, thank you for posting this beautiful poem.

    My tefillah is that when something good happens, we will see a poem on Yeshivaworld that will make us smile!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

32. maybe you can add a link so that we can click and go into this poem daily. will the YW reader who wrote this, tell us who he/she is?

33. Hey mdlevine: will you tell us who YOU are?

    Social Security number and all.

    Thanks.

34. Sorry squeak
    you have it wrong yes you are right about nature but not under 20 years old there are specail tefelis to say when this happens.
    at what stage will you say hashem is trying to get across a message

35. why did we need this tradgedy for yeshivaworld to post a poem…

    nebach so sad

36. great poem.

    I will try to do this starting now I”H.

37. good mussar shmooze.

    may hashem protect us for further bad news.

38. re:…. not exclaiming that the tevah has changed and all of a sudden young people are dying.
    I’m old enough to realize that relatively young and very young people are dieing in more of a rapid succession than ever before.

    I think we only seriously cry out to Hashem when we’ve experience tragedy firsthand, Lo Aleinu. Yenem’s Tzaros are stil Yenem’s Tzaros. Perhaps every day we can think how we can help a suffering person that we know, by Davening AND otherwise.

39. Also, it’s because of LASHON HARA and all the rumors that circulate when something (bad) happens!

40. it would be great if we could publicize this poem maybe send it to the yated and hamodia

41. by the lebenon war this past summer they asked harav posek hadar r’ eliyashiv shlt”a what should klal yisrael do 2 b mecazek ourself ……he said that all tzares r happning bec. we r not so makped all the way on”shmeras shabbes” yes that’s right !!!!! evreyone always finds hetarem etc.

42. To :ChafetzChaim Says: it’s because of LASHON HARA and all the rumors that circulate when something (bad) happens!

    I respectfully differ. I think it’s specifically when bad things happen, that many people temporarily halt their Aveiros, and then when life seem to normalize, they return to their old ways.

43. Squeak
    It certainly is NOT derech haolam for people to be niftar at such young ages, all though it is happening. A complete life is shiviim shana. All of these tragedies should be bringing out teshuva in everyone and shock everyone. “Echad min hachabura mais yidaag kol hachabura” Everyone should making their own cheshbon hanefesh and doing teshuva–so that we will ALL be zocheh to a geula krova, bimhaira beyamainu!

44. I second Squeak.

45. WHEN WILL MOSHIACH COME ALREADY

46. truth from london – under 20 years old is unnatural? What is it then? My point was that we are living in a stage of tremendous brachah where people think they can expect to live so long. Go back 100 or so years and less than half of all children born survived to adulthood. Diseases claimed young lives in those days by the thousands – is what we have today worse or better?

    A message from Hashem? We all know the message, so I think that anything that makes you personally think that you are getting a message is a message to you. If you think that this is unprecedented tragedy then fine. If you think this is a message I don’t disagree.

    Tmimus – Pardon me for expressing that I fully disagree with what you wrote. From your post I assume that you are older than me so I will try to show deference. I just think that your claim is totally baseless. Your age tells you that more young people are dying than ever before? But statistical data (some of which is certainly from before your time) tells me not like you.

    I am with you with regard to your second statement though. Part of the point of my post was that nearly everyone only really takes it to heart when it chas veshalom hits close to home. We are only human and we like to live our lives without interruption. Nebach, some of us become desensitized from hearing tragedies rather than being sad each time. What can we do – one is not supposed to be depressed all the time. Let each story make a roishem and do something with it – but don’t blow it out of proportion. These tragedies are not happening at an unprecedented rate. I would bet that the trend is down, not up. If you know someone in life insurance maybe you can get an expert opinion.

    I really do not want to sidetrack the issue. What prompted me to write a post was that I was impressed by how personally everyone here let the tragedies become. As above, normally people all but ignore yenem’s tsoros, but here it brings heartfelt posts.

    P.S. YW Editor: I noticed that you removed one little comment from my post. It is your site so I respect your censorship and will not repeat or hint at what I said, but I think that the editing in this case was ridiculous. Clearly what I commented on was intentional (based on your reaction) and there was no reason for it – hence my comment. I don’t think that I said anything wrong.

47. S. R. – there are many regulars who post here. many of us, although we have never met each other, look forward to sharing ideas with each other and seeing what they have to say.

    For a point of clarification: When asking which YW reader submitted the poem, I was not asking for real name (nor anyother personal identifiers), rather I was asking for their screen name or handle. The YW editor would not reveal the screen name and certainly not the real name unless permission is granted by the author – the request was to the author to put his.her screen name on it (if they wish).

    All the best,

    mdlevine

48. It all boils down to one thing -being kind and considerate of others, being dan l’kaf zechus; when we think someone did something wrong try and imagine ourselves in his situation and think about how we would have acted If we would be kind to others, we wouldn’t talk loshon horah about them, or cut them off while driving or block their driveways.We would greet people besever ponim yafos even if we don’t know the other person. We wouldn’t be so critical of others.

49. The gemora in mesechta Shabbos says for nivul peh bochurim pass away.
    The ger rebbe ( sfas emes) said the reason the sfardim did not suffer the holocaust was because they respected their shuls.
    The tosfos yom tov said the slaughter of over half a million yidden and 300 kehillos at gezeros tach vtat (as revealed to him in a cholim) was due to talking in shul.
    Such an easy mitzvah.
    Imagine the shmone esra repetition takes only +-4 minutes.!!

50. this poem touched my heart!! THANK YOU

51. beautiful……….

52. I don’t quite know how to say this -i’m certainly not qualified – but when we read this series of comments, i feel like we are really trying hard to be me’ayen into how we can improve ourselves and our communities- and actuarial evidence is not really so relevant- each yid is an olam- and each tragedy pierces the heart and should bring us to teshuva-which will surely give us tremendous simcha-
    Unfortunately, other bloggers, print stuff that is so ‘over the top’ that you can just break down and cry at the lowlife level, the viciousness, the lack of kovod hatorah/kovod talmidei chachomim. We have to try to reach out to those angry people, and if we all try to better ourselves to be good role models, rather than targets for criticism because of rudeness or typecasting, just maybe, we can bring them closer to a life al taharas hakodesh and preclude many tragedies.

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53. You know this is a wake up call for our generation….HoweverI would like to point out something that no one ever mentions. We are all here to better ourselves and our neshamas. These people that have recently passed away and were ripped out of our midst are special people. Hasn’t anyone ever considered that these neshamas are gilgulim and have come down on this world to do their tachlas on this world and they have accomplished what they had to and then were taken back?? Why always say it is our fault that they are not here anymore?? Who are we to say? Its fine to say we should do tshuvah, because we dont know when our time will come, however we are always to blame?? Yes, fine stop all the nonsense, the loshon horah, the sinah, the kinah, however we do have to face the fact that all these neshamas came down on this world and were now called home, and they may have accomplished all they have to do on this world even if it meant passing away early……………………….

54. amazing, unbelievable, outstanding, wow, bravo, beutiful, great, a+, job well done, fantastic, excelent, metzuyan, tov meod, ze’er shain,

    I really appreciate this poem finally someone is saying something

    Attn. bocherim be nice to those who are not part of the chevrah be mikarev them into your chevrah this is what will bring moshiach

    and of course “its gonna be the little kinderlach the little little kinderlach that make moshiach come” quoted from abie rotenberg’s songs

55. I read the poem earlier today and couldm’t help but think just last week I mentioned to a tehillim buddy about all the tragedies occurring both from illnesses and accidents and how it was forming a pattern. I mentioned just last week HaShem is speaking to us. He’s telling us the world is not being run properly and that we have to wake up from this spiritual slumber and stop running after money and everything else that the secular world professes as empty symbols of having made it. We must be above the superficial and try to understand and run our lives every moment according to Torah principles because the moment we start to be like everybody else and forget why we were put here in the first place, notjing but tzoros can result.

    I only hope that everybody learns from this very movingand historically accurate poem, that you can’t just say it’s sad, or people of all ages pass away. The events that have occurred over the past 2-3 weeks are frightening. As many Yidden as possible must take it upon themselves to try to do an extra mitzvah, daven with a little more kavaneh, and of cause the obvious one as some people mentioned, try to speak a little less loshen hora.

56. This was printed in the Yated.

57. Squeek:

    I hope all is well with you. You seem to be very good writer, a thought out one.

    However I do have a bone to pick with you. Historians and philosophers over the past couple of thousand years have been very hard pressed to explain our existence and immortality. Based upon the natural events/teva we should have been G-d forbid! annulled into history long long ago. Yet we are here, and thankfully flourishing. Even some vile anti-Semites have publicly admitted their baffle-ness. (Karl Marx for instance).

    If you have statistics limited to us, not general statistics , please share them. But, I don’t believe general statistics reveal anything in regards to us.

    In fact Reb Yaakov Emden wrote (about two hundred fifty- three hundred years ago) in the introduction to his Siddur (Feldheim publishers): the miracles that G-d has performed and continues to performs for us in exile, are even greater than the miracles of Yetzias mitzraim. Yep greater.

    When tragedies do befall us, there is a reason for it, and if one refuses to learn from them, i.e. hear its message then that would be Achzorious/ cruel and truculent (Rambam).

    May we merit the cease of all tragedies..

58. By the way. I truly appreciate the poem. I could not keep my eyes dry (while reading it, or writing this line).

    Thank you!

59. The poem was evidently written with sincerity and real feeling. However, that does not diminish from the need to look at it objectively. CHAZAL were not able to attribute the churban bayis rishon and sheni to specific misdeed(s) of klal yisroel until after much deliberation, and even then, there were different opinions.
    It is truly amazing how today it is much easier for us to know why something unfortunate happened and what we need to do to correct it. The Gemorah says that Bilam did not know ‘daas kono’ but his donkey did. (I will leave the nimshal out)
    There are at least 613 things that a person could need improvement in. It is not up to us to decide what the paramount issue of the day is. Each person needs to make his own cheshban for himself.
    Unfortunate incidents should serve as a reminder that no one is imortal, that life is not always smooth, that it is with chasdai Hashem that things are not worse and we should make better use of our short time here in Olam Hazeh for our own sake, our families’ sake and for all of klal yisroel

60. In addition to Davening, if , whenever possible, we give more Chizuk to the sick, Red more Shidduchim, help network and find the unemployed jobs, see only the good in fellow Yiden, do our best to promote peace among Yidden, make Kiddush Hashems among non-Yiden, etc., Hashem will IY”H smile upon us. It can only help us all.

61. MdLevine – i read YW all the time – i was the one who wrote the poem – but i never posted before – this is the FIRST time!! so dont know if my screen name will do much- but…..

62. Self improvement for each person is different & unique,
    For some its how they dress, for some its how they speak.
    One might need to learn the meaning of truely sharing in anothers simcha,
    Another may have to work on davening with more Kavana.
    Every person was born with things that they must fix and correct,
    The key is to look into youself, go deep down, and detect.
    Perhaps its a bein adom l’chaveiro, between you and another Jew
    Maybe its bein adom l’makom-the answer will come only from within you.
    The easy thing to do is to look around you and see anothers “Kabalah”,
    Thats nice to do but only if you and them were an exact replica.
    Remember, my dear friend,dont go thru life doing “the easy way out”,
    Show your strength, delve within, there is so much within you-bring it out!

63. Look at one “small” little poem can do: Bring out the best in all of us…

    How true, so true, taht Ahavas Yisroel is sorely lacking.

    Let us remember what so many meforshim write:

    The Bais Hamikdash was destroyed due to sinas chinam,
    We must rebuild it with AHAVAS CHINAM…

    While I too am very wary of the horn-honckers, double-parkers, cell-phone-drivers, etc. etc. part of Ahavas Yisroel is that when we are confronted by one of these “offenders” we must deal with it with Ahavas Yisroel and being dan l’kaf zechut instead of resorting to shouting expletives and what not.

    C’MON EVERYBODY!! LET US SOUND THE CLAXON CALL AND ANSWER HASHEM THAT WE CAN DO IT AND EVERY DAY WILL ACT A BIT NICER TO OUR SPOUSES, CHILDREN, CO-WORKERS, EMPLOYEES…

    MAY HASHEM TAKE HEED OF OUR NOTICEABLE IMPROVEMENTS AND MAY ALL YIDDEN ON THIS WEBSITE AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BE ZOCHE TO THE GEULAH SHELEIMAH BB”A!!

64. Just to expound on Baala Boose’s thought: Lakewood Yeshiva enacted a new Takana after a choshuva Bochur was taken in middle of night seder. Everyone is asked not to have their cellphones on in the Batei Midrashim. I think everyone can agree that the disturbances they have created was getting a little out of hand. Lots of shuls have signs asking people to turn off their phones and beepers but their effect is minimal. Most people figure that as long as it is on vibrate and doesnt disturb anyone, or if I am checking my e-mail quietly than surely that is not a problem. I can’t say this is THE reason however maybe if we “hang up and Daven” our tefillos will have more power to effect a Yeshua!! U’machah Hashem Dimah…..

65. itsprivate – keep posting here, please – you are a wonderful writer, we can tell your writing comes from the heart.

66. Itsprivate
    Yoshar koach! Your very gifted and as MD said seem to be a depth of emotion!
    Please continue to inspire us all!

67. * * WOW * *

    Itsprivate – you have a major zechus –
    Read all these posts –
    Every person who took upon his/herself to be more careful in any area –
    That’s all you! That is so amazing!

68. KOL MAN DE’OVID RACHMUNU LTAV.

69. very moving and emotional, you were doing great until the very last lines “If we don’t improve, you never know The next one can be YOU! –
    (chas V’shalom)”

70. I once read a story in the Yated that there was a mother ,nebach, that her son was niftared. through the whole shabbos this helpless mother was crying because her son was so precious to her. Her son came to her in a dream and said If klal Yisrael would’ve been more careful with lashon Hara I woundn’t have died. Listen to this we all have to try to be better in speaking and have ahavas yisrael. Good luch and hatzlacha

71. aanderinnyid: that last line makes the rest of the poem personal – the whole poem makes you cry and think…

    …the last line Drives the realness of the situation home! It is a powerful use of words!

72. I think that chat threads of this sort are needed more often on YW.
    Maybe some of the great writers on this site can share their work more often.

73. I can only add ONE word to your poem, You are 100% right,but there’s one Problem That has to be healed 1st, which is BEING “TOGETHER” THAT WE SHOULD BE ” SHAVIS ACHIM GAM YACHAD, WHEN THAT WILL HAPPEN THAN PEOPLE WILL WAKE UP, BUT 1ST YOU HAVE TO WORK ON THIS “SHAVES ACHIM GAM YOCUD, BECAUSE WITHOUT THAT THERE’S NO “AMUNAH THAT THERE’S “HASHAM” THAT RUNS THE WORLD. THERE ARE TO MUCH FIGHTING GOING AROUND BETWEEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN “BUTAI MEDRASHIM” SO THIS HAS TO BE HEALED 1ST
    &THEN WE CAN ENTER THE 2ND STAGE OF WAKING UP WHATS HAPPENING AROUND US. THERE WAS ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN YERUSHLIEM YESTERDAY WHEN A YOUNG MOTHER PUT HER CHILD ON THE BUS TO GO TO SCHOOL & SHE FELL DOWN WITH A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK, NOW WHAT SHOULD HER SMALL CHILDREN SAY, AVU IZ MINA MAMMA, SHE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THIS AT AGE OF 4, WE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE AT FAULT & WE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE TO WORK ONEACH OTHER & BE MACHAZIK ONE ANOTHER & THAT’S THE ONLY WAY YOUR POEM WILL OTHERS TO UNDERSTAND. TO BE MACHAZIK ONE ANOTHER , HELP ONE ANOTHER OUT, BUT YES I MUST ADMIT THERE ARE PEOPLE IN OUR JEWISH COMMUNITY THAT WILL DO EVERYTHING TO MAKE “MACHLOKUS” & THEREFORE THERE’S A PROBLEM & ALSO THERE ARE YOUNG JEWISH MEN THAT DENY THAT THERE WAS A HOLOCAUST IN WHICH SO MANY LIVES WERE TAKEN & THERE’S NO ONE THAT CAN HEAL THEM & THEY WILL FIGHT U IN BAIS HAMEDRASH & NOT LET YOU LISTEN TO “SHMONA ESRA” & KRIAS HATORAH & THAT’S A BIG PROBLEM. i CAN ONLY SAY THAT “REB MORDECHAI TCHNOBLER” SAID TO “HASHAM” BACK IN THE 1700’S THAT HE SHOULD “SEND MOSHIACH NOW” BECAUSE WHEN NOT NOW , IN LATER YEARS WHEN PEOPLE WILL NOT EVEN BELIEVE THAT THERE’S A “G-D” THE EXACT WORDING WAS FROM THIS Rabbi EM LO ACHSHOV ,AMUSA & QUOTE HE STATED THEN THE WORLD IS GETTING WORSER EVERY DAY, THEREFORE I AM NOT THE PERSON TO SAY MUSSER FOR KLAL YISROEL, I AM WORKING ON MYSELF EVERYDAY, BUT THERE MUST BE IN EVERY “BAIS MEDRASH ” THAT WILL REMIND HIS SHUL ABOUT DE HALIGAH BARSHAFA UN HIMEL, HUB RACHMONOS OIF UNZ

74. The poem hit the point exactly. Every Niftar should be a wake up call, not only the very young, or those in the “prime of life.”
    But , chaverim, there is no one Mitzvah or Midda whose non-observence is the cause of our tragedies. The Novi tells us what will become of us if we don’t shape up! Ours isn’t the first gentration to hear the cry! The Orthodox camp is but a small minority of Klal Yisroel.

    I beleive weshould all be careful in our observance of every Mitzvah. Take out a Chayye Adam and do what he says. He doesn’t give you a choice. Next it is incumbent upon every Shomer Torah And Mitvah person to do Kiruv to the nat yet frum. If we can get the majority of Klal Yisroel to be Shmorei Torah U Mitzvos, maybe Hasehm will se that we are serious about coming back to Him and allowing hHim back into our lives.

75. I love the poems. I was very touching and meaningful. I happy that this person wrote the pome

76. one more news story and this gets pushed to page 2 – please put another box on your homepage where we can link on this poem without having to search for it. in a few days it will be buried several pages deep.

    thank you.

77. I second Mdlevine. Please make a link on the homepage.
    It’s crucial.

78. I appreciate the effort put into the poem and sense genuine anguish over the tragedies. However, I must ask, has the author recently had a phone conversation with G-d to know that the cause of these tragedies was lack of Ahavas Yisrael? Do the statistics show a marked rise in tragedies? Has there been a drop in Ahavas Yisrael that correlates with this?

    The world has its own realities with levels of complexity far beyond the reach of most any of us – this type of thinking attempts to force it into a nice kitchy feel-good box in which we now know have the answers (“If only someone would listen to me!!!”)

    As scary as it is, the world is built on Chaos. Trying to shield yourself from it by constructing artificial black-and-white realities is (in my opinion) the antithesis of avodas Hashem.

79. To: Minols, theschechters and anyone else with the same views as them – i am the one who wrote the poem – i specifically wrote that im not a rav……meaning – i have no business making a psak…..that i dont know for sure why things happen and until moshiach comes i dont think i will ever know – this is just an idea – and trust me i dont think it hurts to practice a bit more ahavas yisroel, you aint gonna lose anything…….. read the poem again – it doesnt say anywhere that A + B = C ……. it was just a thought………. and yes when so many tzarros happen the first thing to do is THINK- and ask yourself why are these things happening – what message can i take? thanks

80. page 5 already – new comers will never see it 🙁

81. wow – i see mdlevine is really hooked on the poem! good for you that you still read it!

82. i made sure to let my older children read it also – and i explained to them the references that you made in there.

83. now that we are in the three weeks (May HaShem turn this period into a time of simcha) perhaps you can put a link on the home page for the new people here to read this poem for the first time and for the rest of us, to give us some perspective for when we debate seemingly minor issues.