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face=Arial>From: Marty Bluke <<A title=mailto:marty.bluke@gmail.com
href="mailto:marty.bluke@gmail.com">marty.bluke@gmail.com</A>><BR><BR>R'
Benny Lau wrote...that maybe we should be davening<BR>for R' Elyashiv to be
freed from the yisurim that are affecting his body<BR>(in other words to die).
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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PTSIZE="10"><BR><STRONG>--Toby Katz<BR>=============</STRONG><BR>Romney -- good
values, good family, good
hair<BR><BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------------------------
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