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BODENHEIMER Of Integrity and Kiddush Sheim Shamayim Chalfman a selection of comments by Rabbi Avrohom Pam, Rabbi Elya Svei, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS (Novominsker Rebbe) and Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg w""'1!>, as well as anecdotes from the JOSEPH FRIEDENSON RABBI NOSSON SCHERMAN lives of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky and Rabbi Shimon Schwab ;i:n:i?cn-01, culled from the pages ofThe Jewish Observer MANAGEMENT BOARD AVIFISHOF NAFTOLI HIRSCH ISAAC KIRZNER 23 RABBI SHLOMO LESIN It Happened on Shavuos, REPORT FROM THE KOSEL NACHUM STEIN Yonason Rosenblum RABBI YOSEF C. GOLDING Buslnesti Manager 16 Published by BOOKS IN REVIEW Agudath Israel of America RABBI MOSHE SHERER YosHEIV OHEL PRESIDENT reviewed by Rabbi Eliyahu Glucksman U.S. TRADE DISTRIBUTOR ISRAELI DISTRIBUTOR Feldhelm Publishers Netbemia Rosenberg 200 Airport Executive Park Kiryat Telshe Stone, 108A 27 Spring Valley, N.Y. 10977 D.N. Harei Yehuda, ISRAEL POSTSCRIPT tUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE AUSffiALIAN DISTRIBUTOR Toras Emes and the Nine Days' Siyum:AnotherView M.T. Bibelman Gold's Book & Gift Co. Rabbi Yisroel Reisman Grosvenor Works 36 William Street Mount Pleasant Hill Balaclava 3183, Vic., London ES 9NE, ENGLAND AUSTRALIA 28 THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not LETTERS TO THE EDITOR assume responsibility for the Kashrus of any product, publication, or service advertised in its pages JI ©Copyright 1997 IN A SEPARATE SECTION: 75th Anniversary of the Founding of Agudath Israel of America - JUNE 1997 VOLUME XXX/NO. 5·6 A Symposium on the Priorities For Years Ahead Rabbi Aaron Brafinan The Crisis is Now II I. THE SPATE OF SUFFERING will only result in an he pointed to Shmiras Shabbos and increase in their suffering." adherence to family laws, which he here isn't a frum community in We are not Nevi'im found suffering neglect, as need­ our metropolitan area that is not ba'alei ru'ach hakodesh ing attention. His call for intro- Treeling from tragic deaths of (prophets or spection aimed at self-improve­ young and middle-aged people, which spiritual men t is no less relevant are occurring with terrible frequency. visionar­ today.... Ultimately, of course, The Tehillim and "Mi sheberach"lists for ies) to we submit to the will of cholim just keep on getting longer and know for Hashem, knowing that there longer, with the numbers of seriously ill sure why is a just reason for all that frumme Yidden far out of proportion to certain things Hashem does - a reason the general population. The story has occur. We also that we cannot fathom. circulated several times that a health care have no right I once heard from an worker in one of the major New York to tell anyone old Chassidic Jew that hospitals said, "G-d must be angry at who is in pain the Kotzker Rebbe was your people because so many of you are that he is suffer­ once asked Why? in a sick." ing for his own tragic situation, to Part of our mesora and emuna as sins (based on the which he respond- Torah Jews is based on hundreds of Gemora in Perek ed: "Shain volt der sources, starting in the Torah when Hazahav and based Ribbono Shel Yosef's brothers exclaimed "Ma zos assa on recent writings Olam oisgekukt Elokim lanu! - What is this that G-d and discussions I've ven Ich Menachem has done to us!'; through the pages of had with Gedolei Yis­ Mendel ken Im Nach and Talmud, as well as in all Sifrei roe[). In fact, the possi­ farshtein!" (Loosely trans­ Mussar and Chassidus, that nothing that bility is there that a lated: "How would G-d look if I, Men­ happens to us is mere coincidence or the righteous person suffers as achem Mendel, could understand His results of natural forces at work. a means of kappora (atonement) for the ways!") It is therefore incumbent upon us to entire community. Nevertheless, we as a tzibbur must discover why the Middas Hadin - the There are many other possibilities of respond to all of the tragedies we expe­ Divine attribute of justice - is so strong. why different people suffer and this is rience, so they can serve as a wake-up The Rambam at the very beginning dealt with in numerous sefarim. The call to spur us to teshuva. This is always of Hilchos Ta'anis states that the Chofetz Chaim, for example, has writ­ painful, because it necessitates a truth­ response to tragedy, as well as to all types ten a number of letters and published ful, critical self-analysis. It is a call to cor­ of tzaros, is teshuva and tefilla (repen­ more than one Kol Koreh (public procla­ rect our behavior even if it cannot be tance and prayer) - which includes mation) that takes note of tra&ic occur­ directly linked to specific instances of fasting. This will cause the suffering or rences and natural catastrophes, such as suffering and loss. difficulty to be alleviated. The Rambam devastating floods, earthquakes and We must also differentiate between then goes on to say, "And if they will not pogroms. (See Published Writings of the battling for the authenticity of Torah, cry out [in teshuva] and merely say, it Chafetz Chaim, Letters 10, 11, 12 and which necessitates our focusing on the is just a normal occurrence or happen­ 40.) While he clearly declares that it is deviationist behavior of others (i.e. Con­ stance, such a reaction is the way of cru­ beyond us to determine why G-d has servative and Reform), and teshuva, elty, and will only cause them [the peo­ brought such calamities on mankind, he which requires us to focus inwardly. (See ple J to continue in their evil ways, which also reads these events as unmistaken sidebar.) calls for teshuva. Rather than seek some --·------ ------- ---·-· -- ----·--- ----- Rabbi Brafman is menahel of Yeshiva Derech direct linkage between sin and punish­ As a tzibbur - as a united, cohesive Ayson of Far Rockaway. The author expresses ment, he calls for people to examine community- we must examine our sit­ appreciation to Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky N~, Rosh Hayeshiva of the Yeshiva of Philadel­ their private and communal affairs for uation and seek to correct what may be phia, for reviewing this article and making some areas that need correction. In his time, our flaws at this juncture. We live at a 6 The Jewish Observer, Summer 1997 time, on the one hand, of unprecedented Losachmod-Do not be envious (as the Sh()rtly after tile bf oodyriots of Torah learning, certainly in the numbers.
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