Reply To: The Murder of Hallel Yaffa Ariel

Thank you all for your kind remarks. Hallel’s slaughter was a tragedy. And the very next day, nebbich, another tragic korbon. A husband and father murdered in front of a couple of his children, and his wife now fights for her own life. My family tragedy is a tragedy of ALL of us. His tragedy, that of Dafna Meir, the Fogels, the Henkins, Shoshana Greenbaum O”H, the only child of her parents who was expecting her own first baby, and all the names mentioned AND MORE who were not, these are ALL our mishpacha, even though only Hallel was close blood to me.

Our middos tovos and mitzvos DO elicit positive response from HKB”H. We don’t want to see more korbonos, unless they are brought by our Kohanim in the Beis Hamildash. So each of us has the koach to help bring that day one day closer. I don’t ever again want to hear the anguish to which my cousin gave voice on Thursday, and will forever be feeling until Yemos Hamashiach, coming from the mouth of another Yiddishe mama.