[Avodah] who is going to Gehenim

[SBA]

From: Micha Berger 
: SBA wrote:
>: The gemara gives the reason for earthquakes  (and tsunami) happening - when
>: Hashem remembers His children suffering amongst the Umos Haolom, he is
>: "morid shtei dimaos leyam hagadol - vekolo nishma misof haolom v'ad sofo"

>: So may we quote this gemara when discussing earthquakes??

> It depends how.
> Explanations that involve the many dying for the sins of a few not only defy
> the whole thrust of seifer Iyov, as would any other explanation.

> In addition, any notion that 10s of thousands of people who never heard of
> two boys in jail died, and countless mores injured, lost everything they
> owned, etc... because of their country's sins defies "haShofeit kol ha'aretz
> lo ya'aseh mishpat?" Hashem was willing to save the entire Sedom vaAmora
> region for the sake of a few tzadiqim.

Here's what Chazal say (quoted by Rashi in Parsha Bo) BK 60:
"Kivun sheniten reshus lamashchis - eino mavchin bein tzadikim lereshaim,
velo od  ela shemas'chil min hatzadikim techila"