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Amen!

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Sorry but we can only judge with our eyes some people have a much more difficult tikun than others but it doesn't make them saints .

A young mother with little children that passes away does and rightly so elicit and deserve much more empathy than someone whose only responsibility

was to himself ,true we don't all have the same strength of character but you can't compare the two. One was a life that did not get a chance to realize it's potential while the other was one that wasted it's potential for whatever reason but wasted nonetheless.

May Hashem have mercy on both and on his people Israel

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Pirke Avot 1:6 - 'Judge every man on the side of merit.'

Pirke Avot 2:4 - 'Do not judge a fellow until you've stood in his place.'

Yeshayahu 60:21 - 'And your people, all of them tsaddikim'

HaYom Yom, Iyar 5th. - 'A soul may descend to this world and live seventy or eighty years, in order to do a Jew a material favor, and certainly a spiritual one.'

Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 606:3 "תקנת קדמונינו וחרם שלא להוציא שם רע על המתים"

Our Sages are clear about the first three, and unless you have ruach hakodesh, you cannot know whether anyone accomplished their mission or the opposite ch"vs.

I suggest you meditate on those things.

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