The Meron Tragedy, April 30, 2021 - Lag B'Omer, 5781

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Lazer Brody’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Beloved brothers and sisters, cherished friends, you just heard Shmuel Giggers Detner singing Rahem. Hashem have mercy. Shmuel Giggers one of the 44 not 44 or 45, it's unclear whether it's 44 or 45 victims of last night's tragedy in Meron, which you just saw some flashes pictures. Sorry that some of them are sort of graphic. Just understand what we're talking about. The maybe Israel's worst civilian tragedy ever. And didn't plan this podcast. Today's our 250th podcast unplanned. 250 is the Hebrew numerical equivalent for "ner". Ner is a candle. I said make this podcast right before Shabbat as a memorial candle for all the victims and also as a prayer for the dozens that are still fighting for their lives out of the more than 150 people hospitalized all over hospitals in Israel in the north. We have to ask ourselves one thing. Is it enough? Let Let's put this in a proportion. Okay, we got 44 people dead. In 19 91 there was the Gulf War in January 1991. Saddam Hussein attacked Israel with 39 Scud missiles. 39 Scud missiles landed in land of Israel. They destroyed whole apartment buildings in Ramat Gan, right next to the diamond district. Nobody was killed. One Scud missile landed in the American Army in Saudi Arabia and there were 25 American soldiers killed and 225 maimed. After the 39 Scud missiles, each one with a 250 kg payload, 550 pounds of explosives in each missile, there was

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1. 0:36Beloved brothers and sisters, cherished friends, you just heard Shmuel Giggers Detner singing Rahem. Hashem have…
2. 2:07with 39 Scud missiles. 39 Scud missiles landed in land of Israel. They destroyed whole apartment…
3. 4:09Baomer Meron, because it's after the 33 days of Omer, this is the Yahrzeit of Rabbi…
4. 5:42people. Ahab won all his wars. He won all his wars, and the Gemara tells us…
5. 7:44Agudah, within the Hasidim themselves, within the Hasidim themselves. Let a Belzer Hasid, the Gur Hasid,…
6. 9:17you're allowed to kill each other? You know what they all are? Everybody's like sheep. This…
7. 11:20it. And if we destroy the Holy Temple, we pay the price. So, in order to…
8. 12:50Don't think I have to talk about the Chofetz Chaim and go back to 1933. What…
9. 14:51of kippah. He's got a woven kippah, and I've got a black velvet kippah. Bezalel, boy,…
10. 16:23your father is. You're standing on your father's hill, and this one's standing on his father's…

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