[Avodah] Report: Orthodox Weddings to Resume with "Approved Model" in New Jersey: Rabbi Aaron Kotler

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 03:17:17PM -0400, elazar teitz via Avodah wrote:
> The commemoration was not decreed because of the loss of lives during the
> plague; it was because of the major diminution of Torah knowledge which
> resulted from it. It was not because there were deaths, but because of who
> died and because of the effect on klal Yisraeil of their deaths...

I would have said it was because their deaths had insufficient effect
on the attitudes of kelal Yisrael, and therefore what we should have
gotten in the years of shock at the loss, we now have to spend time
on every year, working on kavod haberios incrementally.

Not really a disagreement, other than my shift of focus from loss of
Torah knowledge to a more middos oriented definition of loss of Torah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha