Shortly after October 7, HaGaon HaRav Ben-Tzion Mutzafi spoke to his talmidim about the terrible massacre. “We need to cry day and night over the Simchas Torah tragedy – on those murdered – the babies whose heads were cut off, the soldiers who were brutally murdered,” HaRav Mutzafi said. “קול צווחה נשמיע, וקול בכי ונהי נודיע, עד כי יתעוררו הצדיקים בגן עדן לבקש רחמים עלינו”. “The biggest tzaddikim can’t stand [on the same level] they’re at,” the Rav added. One of his talmidim asked him: “If someone is murdered by cruel goyim, yimach shemam, do their relatives need to say Kaddish since they go straight to Olam Haba?” The Rav answered: “Your question is justified as there are poskim who wanted to say that השכבה [a special tefillah said on niftarim] and Kaddish aren’t needed as [the victim] is exempt from din in Shamayim.” [Since he was murdered Al Kiddush Hashem.] “But when they discovered the words of the Ari, who wrote that Kaddish and השכבה are for two reasons – one is to save the niftar from Din and Gehinnom and the second is to raise him to higher madreigos in Shamayim, they retracted their opinions and wrote that Kaddish and השכבה should be said because even if it’s true that the victim is exempt from Din, but Kaddish and השכבה will raise him to higher levels, to be closer to Hakadosh Baruch Hu.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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