The rabbi did not know any of the men and women of Be’eri for whom he undertook to recite Kaddish until September of 2024. Strangers, all. . . . [Except that] now they are connected by the words in Aramaic he recites three times a day.
“The goal of the Seder,” she writes in the book’s introduction, “is to leave everyone on a higher spiritual level.”
The book’s tacit message: you don’t have to be a big macher to do big things.
When we take what is a tragic event and use it to enhance our awareness of Hashem, then the merits can be used as comfort.
Even while mourning, our sights are invariably set on the future.