Mumbai Tragedy
The situation in Mumbai doesn’t seem to have worked out as we had hoped. I was reading reports and holding out a bit of faith and hope, until I read “Boruch Dayan Emes” on CrownHeights.Info. That is a very final phrase. It literally means, “Blessed is the true judge”, and expresses the Jewish belief that even in tragedy, G-d has made His choices, for His reasons, and we must accept them.
I take this personally. Rabbi and Mrs Holtzberg are not faceless victims a world away. They are of us. Were I ever to be sent to Mumbai on business, not likely, I know, their Chabad House would have been on my itinerary, and I know, without ever meeting them, exactly what reception I would have gotten. So they are my friends, just friends that I wasn’t able to actually meet.
Boruch Dayan Emes…. indeed.