UOJ OPINION:
There
were no shortage of God's messages sent to us through the "Great
Rabbis or Gedolim" when it came to the Meron and Karlin-Stolin
tragedies. Lack of tznius, loshon hara, not learning enough Torah, going
lenient on kashruth, long wigs, short dresses, not listening to the Gedolim on everything, Internet, having
a smartphone; I'm certain there are more.
Why no messaging from God on Surfside?
Why is there no "Kinnus Hisorarus" organized by the Agudath Israel? Why is there no Zoom day of Chizuk? Where is Paysach Krohn with his bubba masses that he relates going back to the baal agala of the Baal Shem Tov? Anyone see Rabbi Frand out there stomping the bimah how mixed swimming could be the problem? Living on a beach - OY! Imagine if the engineers confirm severe damage to the pool slab that was part of the support beams that were part of the foundation where the mixed swimming took place! And what good could people see if their units faced the pool and the beach Hashem yirachem? What about Yanky Kanievsky feeding the public with a mouthful of nonsense his grandfather never said?
I asked this question to the rabbis that I communicate with, (yes, many Orthodox rabbis).
Besides
the usual " we don't understand the workings of Hashem, certainly there
is a message; one rabbi was brave/dumb enough or had enough chutzpah to actually tell me that he
was certain there was no public message because" God does not send
messages to Jews through "Goyim".
It resonated with me because one such giant (lower case g) told me something similar years ago.
In
other words, if everyone that lived in Champlain Towers South in
Surfside were Jews, there would be a message, since gentiles were part
of the tragedy and many lived there, there will be no message from God through the tragedy of gentiles.
At least for now.
But Jews are creative, when this post goes viral, as most of them do, there will be O so many messages from God!
Wait for it!
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Floor by Floor, the Missing People and Lost Lives Near Miami
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/30/us/miami-building-missing-dead.html
