<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:57 AM, SBA <<a href="mailto:sba@sba2.com">sba@sba2.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Nebach. Chazal tell us not to console mourners when meiso mutel lefonov<br>
(or something like that). The whole of klall Yisroel was in such a state<br>
last Friday.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>FWIW, A former IDF soldier came to me on Friday and asked "Didyou hear the news?"<br>I responded YES but I do not want to talk about it.<br>He then proceeded to regale me for the next 20 minutes...and I listened because he was an elderly gentleman, but frankly I was too depressed over that even and Rav Zev Segal's Tragic death to deal with the situation,, and so I tuned out as best as I could. Chazal's 3 days of silence makes sense at times. One would have been enough for me. <br>
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>