Comments on: LIVE BLOG: Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake Hits Capital Region- Felt Up East Coast [UPDATED 3:59PM EST]

By: Mashiach Agent

Mashiach Agent — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:39:11 +0000

start teshuva now & we will not need these shaking wake-up calls coming from Hashem

DON’T WAIT UNTIL AFTER TRAGEDY STRIKES C”V we have seen enough already, BUT is anyone ready to confess to hashem & do teshuva? when in reality we all need to do teshuva

BOTTOM LINE:we leave hashem with no choice but to do these tragic events…

By: Lib

Lib — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:33:12 +0000

Thank you, Hashem, for causing an earthquake and but also for not letting anyone get injured.
Sounds like a strange thank you. If Chazal thought that we should just say a bracha, so maybe we should just say a bracha.

By: saaiksr

saaiksr — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:36:30 +0000

Okay, #38, THANK YOU HASHEM FOR LETTING THE EARTHQUAKE PASS PEACEFULLY AND NOT LETTING ANYONE GET INJURED! AND THANK YOU HASHEM FOR KEEPING US SAFE AND SOUND AND ALIVE FOR ANOTHER DAY! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

happy now?

btw, does anyone know if you’re still allowed to the bracha, even though it’s been 8 hours since the earthquake?

I didn’t know what it was at the time, but I was sitting in my room and everything just started shaking. It wasn’t until my father came home from work that he told me it was an earthquake.

By: basmelech

basmelech — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:12:54 +0000

I had just sat down in the driver’s seat of my car, when I felt my car gently rocking back and forth and I saw the hood of the car undulating. I thought I was going crazy or hallucinating. I thought maybe I’m dizzy, but, I felt fine. Then I thought maybe it’s an earthquake ha ha, like I didn’t really think so. I thought maybe something is wrong with my car, but, it wasn’t even running. When I drove away everything was fine so I thought I imagined it. When I got home I heard it on the news.

By: Git Meshige

Git Meshige — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:59:10 +0000

#37, oh how you miss the point. If you were saved from fire or death, a bracha of hagomel was instituted , not Maaseh Bereishis. That brocho was instituted for the wonderous things Hashem created or did. It is incumbent upon every one to verbally thank Hashem during davening and on the blogs for sparing us from this specific would be disaster.

By: shazam

shazam — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:52:26 +0000

#35: Baruch Ata Hashem means “Hashem, You are the source of Blessing.”

The Chachamim knew what they were doing when they were mesakein the berachos. The berachah they were gozer on us to make for an earthquake includes thanks to HKB”H.

By: baylasheva

baylasheva — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:01:09 +0000

BARUCH HASHEM we’re all here alive another day…to post and share our reactions with our brethren! Perhaps the message from Above is: Do teshuva now before the Elul rush. I speak for myself, of course.

Ahavas Yisrael also means giving mussar with ahavah.

By: Git Meshige

Git Meshige — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:36:39 +0000

#34, thats not a bracha thanking Hashem for saving us. Its a bracha that priases Him for doing wonderous things. All other comments did not even mention an iota of thanks to the Ribonei Shel Oilam. On a frum web site?

By: shazam

shazam — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:26:46 +0000

#33, see #15.

By: Git Meshige

Git Meshige — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:07:04 +0000

You know what suprises me, reading all these comments not one comment expresses thanks to Hashem for causing no harm through this earth quake. This could have been deady and everyone is busy saying their buba meisos and noone is thanking Hashem for saving us. What a disgrace!