[Avodah] Should we be davening for R' Elyashiv to live?

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From: Marty Bluke <_marty.bluke at gmail.com_ (mailto:marty.bluke at gmail.com) >

R'  Benny Lau wrote...that maybe we should be davening
for R' Elyashiv to be  freed from the yisurim that are affecting his body
(in other words to die). 
 

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I don't think it's a Jewish thing to daven for the death of someone who is  
suffering. In fact, this suggestion is shocking to me.  We daven for his  
refuah and we daven that Hashem will ease his suffering, and leave it up to  
Hashem to decide how to ease the suffering. I knew someone who at one point 
was  in a coma and had only "hours to live" -- dying of cancer -- yet he 
came  out of it, went home, went back to learning, made a siyum with his 
friends,  lived a year after he was "supposed" to die -- a year which his wife 
believes  was given to him because of the intensity of her davening.



--Toby Katz
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Romney -- good  values, good family, good  hair


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