Reply To: Being sensitive towards tragedy

Yes, of course. Bereaved. Thank you.
But somehow I left out the most important part.
Chacham Shalom Cohen shlita wrote the following: “the 45 kedoshim utehorim, KORBANOS TZIBBUR, who ascended in a storm to Shamayim…”
Also, HaRav Edelstein shlita related a story about the Chofetz Chaim: he had a son-in-law, a young man, Rav Tzvi Hirsch Levinson, and he died young. His daughter asked her father, why did he die, wasn’t he a tzaddik? The Chofetz Chaim told her: “There was a gezeirah on the dor and he atoned for the dor through his death! This is his zechus, he was mezakeh the dor through his death.”