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Your just acts are like the mighty mountains; Your judgements are unfathomable …. (Psalms 36:7)
As I write these words, the whole Jewish world is reeling from the news of the tragic loss of 45 lives at Meron on Lag baOmer.. We feel deeply for their grieving families..
Why G-D sent this tragedy to us on Lag baOmer on all days – the day commemorating the abatement of a deadly plague and a day of rejoicing – and at the tomb of Rashbi of all places, only He ultimately knows. His judgements are “river-deep and mountain-high”. As the Kotsker Rebbe famously said, if we would understand Him we would be Him. One small consoling effect is that the tragic accident generated a br