4 Responses to “One on One”

1. vivian rosenberg
   July 30th, 2006 @ 4:38 am

   If nothing else this war is accomplishing one thing. ACHDUS in behavior and in tefilla. We know that we have to stick together, and we appreciate one another, we respect one another. Can this not be done without a war? Maybe then we will not have such wars….

2. Chaim Grossferstant
   July 30th, 2006 @ 11:52 am

   I really appreciate this concept. Often I find that davening for some amorphous “Klal” depersonalizes the process.

   I also think that as we head into Tisha B’av and say (or at least have in mind) Holocaust kinnos we ought to study the life and death of 1-3 victims. The Nazis YM”S did not kill six million. They killed one individual with families, jobs, challenges triumphs, loves, dreams and aspirations and then they killed another such individual and then repeated the process a mind/heart numbing number of times (6,000,000!). Mass murder robs individual murder of it’s horror.

3. Steve Brizel
   July 30th, 2006 @ 3:43 pm

   Chaim-in the new book of RYBs’s shiurim on kinos. RYBS pointed out that the kinah about the son and daughter of R Yishmael the koehn Gadol is included after all of the kinos that deal with the Churban and Asarah Harugei Malchus. That is because we commemmorate individual tragedies as well as communal disasters on Tisha Bav-even and especially those involving children, especially the children of the Kohen Gadol because (1) they had seen the Beis Hamkikdash in its glory and (2) because the death of an individual requires us to mourn their loss even in the course of a national tragedy- a factor that is unique to Judaism ( pp267-270).

4. Bob Miller
   August 1st, 2006 @ 2:40 pm

   The Bostoner Gabbai in Har Nof, Yerushalayim is also supplying names of Israeli soldiers as partners to study and daven for.

   You may contact the Gabbai, Nesanel Peterman, at
   gabbai@gmail.com

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