Lag B'omer & the Meron Tragedy: a Torah Perspective from Rabbi Chaim Mintz

tonight we're all very upset overwhelmed by the terrible news marriage israel about the terrible accident that happened hamburg lost their lives and it's very very especially upsetting if you remember last year there was no blackboard at marone because of the covenant epidemic and we were so stricken by it this whole year and now finally opening up miron and now we're stricken again with this terrible accident all jews around the world again everybody's nervous now everybody has korean friends and that's israel they don't know what's happening again all these in the world are affected by this tragedy it was just to know how people lost their lives that's enough in itself but right now we're worried about who are the ones who are hurt even somebody says talk a little while ago said to me are we that bad because strikes us but two in a row the whole year was suffering was covered and now with this terrible tragedy which is almost unequaled so it's worse than a service attack would that bad by hashem i said no adorable on the contrary we're so good by hashem that's why this world who holds us in high esteem we're his nation with our manifold the chosen nation hashem demands perfection from us since we're so close to him he's perfect we're born over children of hashem and therefore just like a parent who has a special child outstanding that's great in his intellect and this whole personality and the whole uh media study has character traits the parent expects more from them demands more from them and is more strict with them that's why this broker was strict with us because he loves us so much because we're his nation it demands perfection naturally ultimately will be greatly more rewarded the fact that we're close to him that's in itself is a great reward to this world and the world to come just read just a few few weeks ago another view that they were so close to our ship but i couldn't have some sense of people close to me i was sanctified took their life away because they did a small sin they made perfection from them great people and this week cedra talking about emory the simple meaning with tell the kahana who even they iron but other mufashim commentaries tell them you are they are they'll expect more from you who are there you obviously tell them who their father is who they're coming from expect much more from them and their genes is there's greatness that's more careful therefore i'm going to demand from them more than other jewish people since they have been the iran that's the father for they have the alberta they have to do the service of ignorance and they have many more laws than the other jews absence of the children of harmony expects more from the great ones we have to realize we've been abroad with the children of the voice of the great patriarchs and matriarchs whose people are probably going to be serving we have the genes of greatness that shouldn't demand from us perfection because we are able to be more perfect than all the nations of the world and therefore hashem the meant from us to be greater and if we don't live up to that we are open for punishment to make sure that we think about why the punishment is coming whether hashem is demanding from us so the person said that hashem thinks we're so bad he gives us all give us all this punishment no he thinks we're so good therefore he wants us to to think about our actions it seems that we're not up to par the way he wants us to be and he's throwing at us these difficult times and things that we're going through and each person of course will wait for a great idol for the grammars of the generation to tell us how we should think how we should conduct ourselves what we should do uh as a result of this great tragedy but we must every person has to look into himself and see if we can perfect ourselves not for a long term at least we're short term at least for a week a month a few days to think maybe we should perfect ourselves in different ways whether it's whether shabbos maybe we're not keeping comments like we should i'm not talking about driving cars and job this person's religious but maybe the shabbos table should be more a turreting of chapman's table different words of torah to chapters that was merely without that talk of of of of work of politics things that are not that shabbos from shabbos table maybe sentence kind of maybe we have to make up for people that we're not in good terms with even with parents with relatives something like bad terms with them with neighbors with friends let's try to make friends with people that we should be friends with and we have a grudge against them disruptive grudges luminatorial their men should maybe not learning enough maybe they should learn more davening maybe the women are not diverting enough a lot of women to feel that they're not obligated to die and to pray they are obligated to pray that they ask the rabbi what exactly they have to do but they're not relieved from the uh mitzvah of fair they have to dive in also so let's try to think of ourselves again a few examples how about saying in the morning the great is the mullah in you that you uh give back on the shout to us every morning don't say with come on and we'll get up in the morning we say and we said what's going on a few examples of we might bring the cable on ourselves so we could ask have mercy on us to not to throw away any more disastrous things difficult things for us to live with should we have about mothers who should shine his face at us with breakfast abundance of profits and blessings to good things and doing everything's having a good job to everybody go to