Another terrible incident has happened and we all look up - and ask: Until when?
After this question, which is common to all of us, we split up.
These complain: 'Why didn't the parents save more? Why are the parents so uncaring? And if they had diamonds, would they have forgotten them too?' Others are more adamant and angry: 'Punishment for the guilty! Imprisonment! 10 years in prison!''
And others, some of us, vent their anger on an entire community, observing the Torah and the mitzvot: 'This is the end of the mitzvot, 'Be fruitful and multiply!' This is what happens when you bring children into the world and don't know how to protect them.
Did we really appoint anyone as judges? Each of the people to whom this happened will claim and say: "I was sure this wouldn't happen to me.""! Or: "I was among those who shouted against their people that this happened." "I don't know how it happened to me.".
Each of them is a million percent sure that something like this couldn't happen, and here it is. Because that's what was destined to happen. And unfortunately, it happens in the best families. With the parents who are the most protective of their children, the most caring, and the most vigilant for the most part.
Do they deserve punishment? Why are people punished? So that they learn, and so that the people around them will be deterred.
Those people to whom this happened, learned their lesson in the most extreme way. There is nothing more to teach them. We should not judge a person who has had such a terrible incident happen to him, he has received his punishment in a big way. No punishment you impose on him will deter him more than the punishment he has already received.
And the deterrence to others? Is there anything that might deter a parent more than their child dying and burning? I don't know of a more terrible deterrent. Will hearing about someone going to prison following such an incident deter us more than hearing about a child being burned in a horrific heat?
We must remember one important thing: punishment was not born to take revenge, it was meant to educate. The reason prisons are so full of criminals is that instead of educating, we are busy taking revenge all day long. Look how happy we are for the death of people who have sinned. We sit in front of the radio and wait to hear what the sentence is? How many years will he spend in prison? And how bad it is in the narrow, rotting room he entered.
The more we increase pure and correct education, the more we are careful to instill values in the hearts of erring souls, the more we will succeed in achieving, the more we will succeed in transforming a criminal sitting in prison into a better and more educated person. Even in this case, if we do not live with the belief that we have a duty to punish, curse, and insult people to whom exactly what could happen to any other enlightened person, but for some reason happened specifically to them, the world will be a more beautiful place.
And as for the diamonds, I am sure that a person who carries diamonds as frequently as parents carry their children will forget the diamonds just as they forget the children, and much more so, because in any case, children are not just diamonds.
People say that they hid their money in all sorts of holes in the house and often forgot to take it out before leaving the house. They forgot where they hid it and forgot that it existed, yes, and it was a huge sum for them. Children in a normal home are the property that a person would do anything for. I'm sure that if you asked that parent if he would prefer to have his child's hand or one of his fingers cut off, he would answer without thinking: Cut off my hand, just don't touch my son's organs!
So good and pious people, do not judge people whose place you are not in. Instead, pray to God that He will not bring you into the same trial, because who knows if the trial will not turn, God forbid, into humiliation.
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