Rav Mota Frank has realized that for two minutes, at 11 AM today, in about half an hour from now, just about the entire country will be standing still and silent for two minutes. In Rav Frank's eyes that means that for two minutes nobody will be speaking hatred about anyone else, no one will be speaking lashon ha'ra, nobody will be saying mean or negative things. No lies, no friction, no arguments, no blasphemy, no foul language. For two whole minutes!
Rav Frank wants to take advantage of those 2 amazing minutes, coming up soon, and turn them into a silent cry to Hashem to hasten the final redemption.
Doing this, he says, will have 1 million people unified for two minutes in a mass prayer! This will have the power to go all the way up to the heights of heaven.
Rav Frank adds in his message for those concerned about standing silently during the siren that there is nothing to be concerned about. Many rabbonim even in the Haredi community have paskened that it is not chukat ha'goyim to stand silently during the siren. The prohibition for doing something that might be like the goyim is only when there is no purpose in doing it. Standing silent has a purpose, and that is:
- to burn the memory of the fallen into the memory and consciousness of everyone
- to be aware of their deaths and to unite with their memories and turn their deaths into a merit so their merit should be a merit for us forever.
What a beautiful idea, at least for anyone who does not want to participate in the secular/State commemoration, at least they now have a positive religious ideal as well - stand silent for two minutes and daven for the redemption!
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