Message from Rav Chaim Mintz shlit"a regarding the Tragic Petirah of Aharon Nosson Lebovits Z"L

The news of the tragic accident that happened is upsetting in the worst way to everybody who hears about it. A big clap to call Israel. Four young men being killed at one time. It's a tragedy for the Jewish nation. tragedy special of Ben Tyra and for Ben yes learning full-time in yeshiva and it's a clap also for Ura one of them Aronos Liu which was a counselor and were for a few years very outstanding boy special and it's so upsetting right after for thing like this to happen look how much we're losing by these boys. Imagine that they're studying Torah all day, all those hours, and now they're not studying anymore, and we're losing all those hours of Torah of of those studying Torah, which is so precious to us. So what is Hashem telling us with this? We have to try to figure it out the best we can. Tell us in V that The four times when death happens to Israel. One of them times is right after sukus. And uh the reason given is because the Jews failed to give enough charity during sukus and therefore they're punished afterwards. So all of us hearing this have to think to ourselves, are we giving enough charity? This is something that affects all of us. We can't say, well, it's not me. It's nothing to do with me. It's something to do with an accident like that. It has to do with all of us. We have to feel we're all part of it. And we have to check, are we giving enough giving enough money for at least a tenth of our earnings? You could give more than that also up to a fifth. But at least a tenth we have to get from our from the earnings that we have money that's coming into us and uh that's the number one thing for us to think about because that's why right after tragedy happens tell us those who are not in the money so much the people who are learning Torah they have to think about said that those who are studying They totally have to give a tenth of the time. They tenth of the earnings they don't have but tenth of the time to give to others. That's the stuckle they have to give. So uh we have to think to ourselves to uh are we giving a time to others that uh who are needy who need help people that want to study Torah they can't learn on their own. So these are few things to think about. Everybody has their own ideas, realizations about what they have to improve on. But we have to take this as a great message from Hashem. We have an Nim today to tell us uh directly what we should be doing. But Hashem gives us different uh ideas. he's puts in our in front of us that we should uh think about and try and prove ourselves in order for us to uh be close to he wants us to be. So should and not have to bang on that door so much anymore and we should on our own do what we have to do and have without any more tragedies only.