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Tziduq haDin
 
Posted: 14 Mar 2008 07:55 AM CDT
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Tziduk Hadin

Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz

Yated Neeman

March 13, 2008

Yerushalayim in shock

Numb with grief

Frozen hearts

Disbelief

In the heart of Yerushalayim

A yeshiva under attack

Unarmed students

Shot in the back

Rifle blazing

No escape

Vicious death trap

Savage hate

Gunfire roaring

Young men falling

Massacred

No escape

On Rosh Chodesh

Adar Sheini.

Yeshiva bochurim

Close to eighty

The murderer sought

To kill them all

600 bullets

Blasted forth.

Innocent souls

Pure young men

Will never speak

Learn

Or laugh again

Victims so young

Leave us behind

To ponder the tragedy

Of how they died

Complacency shattered

Pow

Does nonsense still matter?

Bang

People misguided, divided

Boom

The first report announced

Terror in a yeshiva

All across the world

Headlines screamed

A yeshiva, a yeshiva

Under siege

Jews gasped,

Immediately asked,

Which yeshiva?

Where is the yeshiva?

Is it the yeshiva

Where my son learns?

My brother?

My cousin?

My friend?

We are all sons

All brothers

All cousins

All friends

Can it be that yeshivos, too,

are no longer safe?

Our teivas noach

In stormy waves

The teivah was breached

Bochurim slain

Wounded, bleeding

Searing pain

The Jewish heart punctured

Jewish souls bereaved

Across the world

United in grief

Yerushalmi Yidden

Broke down and cried.

For the yeshiva was taken

To the war’s front lines

All over Eretz Yisroel

As they assembled for Maariv

They said Yaaleh Veyavoh

for Chodesh Adar

And when they finished davening,

A silence so bitter

All they could muster

A tearful whisper

Hashem yishmor

How were there no guns that

day in Merkaz Harav?

Young boys died armed only with

their seforim

Mosru nafshom al kiddush Hashem

Gemaros soaked with victims’ blood

Seforim shot up, survivors numb

Friends gone forever, innocent youth

To their final rest in the world of Truth

Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers

Trying to comfort each other

Sitting shivah, hearts rent

Grief that keeps flowing without end

As vast as the ocean is Jewish pain

The cycle returns in every decade

Hate and persecution take their toll

On a nation with an eternal soul

Down the corridors of history

>From the days of Harugei Beitar

The eight crusades

Gezeiros Tach V’Tat

Crisscrossing the globe

The pogroms in Russia

Poland… Chevron.

Auschwitz

Birkenau

Therezenstadt

Treblinka

Naharia

Kiryat Shemonah

Munich

Sderot

The 12 bus

The 2 bus

Sbarro’s

Park Hotel

Netanya

Pesach night

When will it end?

Rain the first night of Sukkos

Signals G-d’s displeasure

What about the innocent

Snatched on the first night of Adar

Do we feel the pain in our

deepest soul?

Do we feel the hurt or are our

hearts cold?

A yeshiva,

Any yeshiva,

Is no longer safe!

The mizbei’ach is mechapeir

for avonos

The bais medrash became a mizbei’ach

What happened to “ein

moridim m’hamizbei’ach”?

What happened to the

zechus haTorah?

Lechapeir al avonoseinu,

Chodesh nehepach misasson l’eivel

But the story will soon change

In the end of days

As love conquers hate

And comfort removes pain,

Truth will triumph over lies

Darkness will finally yield to light

Ohr chodosh al Tziyon ta’ir

The light of Moshiach will shine

Over Tzion

And Yerushalayim

When we learn to

Love

Care

Feel the pain

Of the exile

When at last we unite

As brothers and sisters

When love binds us close

Despite our differences

No one will defeat us

Armed with our oneness

No enemy can beat us

Amaleik’s power manifests in Adar.

Haman’s dice landed on Adar

Parshas Shekolim tells the secret

Of the machatzis hashekel

Its power to counteract our

eternal foes

Amaleik and Haman.

Machatzis — half.

Because without each other,

We aren’t whole

One half and another half

And another

And another

No longer separate

But part of each other.

Achdus brings us victory

It has no rival

The ‘magic bullet’

That ensures our survival.

Esther said to Mordechai,

“Leich kenos es kol haYehudim.”

Bring the Jews together

Only if they are together,

Can I win the king over

Only if they are united

Can we triumph

Over Haman

And prevail over

Amaleik

“Leich kenos es kol haYehudim.”

Only if we are together,

Can we defeat Yishmoel

When we are One

Echad

Without friction or fighting

No power can hurt us

No force is as mighty.

K’Ish Echad B’Laiv Echad

Under Hashem Echod.

May Hashem bring us safely

To that blessed day

 Bayom hahu yehiyeh Hashem Echod

U’shmo Echod
 


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