Why do children pass away at a young age? Because we must return the deposit to Hashem – Daily Ha...

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Welcome to the daily Halacha corner. As we said in one of our previous segments , the reason children pass away at a young age is because they completed their purpose in this world. And once their task was fulfilled, once they did what was required of them, it was time for them to return to their Father in heaven, to return to the Garden of Eden . We must know that children are deposits that the Holy One, blessed be He, has entrusted to us; they are not ours. And when their time comes, the Owner of the deposit, the Almighty, asks us to return the deposits to Him. And whoever merits returning the deposits to the Almighty whole and pure , just as they received them—happy are they and happy is their portion. Anyone who loses a child at a young age , a child who never tasted sin, needs to know that they merited returning the deposit whole and pure, and for this, they shall be blessed. It is written in Avot de-Rabbi Nathan, Chapter 14, that when Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai lost one of his young children, his student Rabbi Eleazar ben Arach came to comfort him. Rabbi Eleazar ben Arach said to him, "My teacher, let me tell you a

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1. 0:00Welcome to the daily Halacha corner. As we said in one of our previous segments ,…
2. 0:30And whoever merits returning the deposits to the Almighty whole and pure , just as they…
3. 1:01parable." A king gave a deposit to one of his servants and said to him, "One…
4. 1:31and clean child who never tasted sin; he studied Torah, he recited verses."" You returned the…
5. 2:02deposit to him?" Rabbi Meir replied: " Certainly, it is his deposit, it is not yours."…
6. 2:33should find comfort in the fact that they merited returning the deposit to the Owner of…

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