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Who WASN'T on the Bus - and Why

13/2/2019

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While I don't know the whole spiritual message behind the bus-overturn tragedy that happened on the Modiin-Jerusalem 443 route, I do want to point out something else.

While we need to pray for and assist the survivors and mourn those who died, it's also important to realize something revealed by my son:

Many people meant to be on that bus ended up missing it.

​And it wasn't their fault.

Two boys who learn in my son's yeshivah intended to take that bus. Familiar with that bus's timetable, they stopped in at a nearby grocery store to pick up some nosh when the bus suddenly sped by. 

In fact, several other potential passengers were in that same store and also shocked that the bus came early and didn't stop.

(In routes between cities, buses don't come as often and a missed bus is a huge inconvenience to the potential passengers -- something the drivers are aware of, making them more likely to wait for a person running after them and yelling, "Wait!")

This missed bus was their salvation, as they found out later.

It reminds me of similar incident that happened around the time of suicide-bombings on the buses in Tel Aviv & Yerushalayim.

An American girl was attending Tel Aviv University's one-year program for English-speakers.

When the crowded bus pulled up at the stop where she waited, she tried to get on, but the driver started yelling at her, "There's no room! Get off! Wait for the next bus!"

Startled, she protested that there was room as she was already inside the bus.

But the driver kept yelling at her and with a final shout of "There's no place for you here!", he shoved her off the bus.

Living in Eretz Yisrael for 25 years, I've never seen a bus driver do that.

Then the bus continued along its route and...

...exploded.

That's why, indeed, there was no place for her on the bus.

It wasn't her time yet and it wasn't her way to go either.

(BTW, she didn't leave her dorm for a month after that.)

So while we need to remember & be sensitive to the pain of the victims of this tragedy and the pain of their families, and to help them and daven for them any way we can, we should also remember that nothing is truly an accident.

And we should ask Hashem what message He wants us to understand from this.

Hopefully, we won't need to suffer anymore tragedies and the Geula will come already, b'ezrat Hashem.

Please see Neshama's blog for a list of names for davening:
Route 443 Accident Victims Need Your Prayers

Also, Hamodia included these names:
Chemdatia Ditza bat Rivka
Tamar bat Rivka
Moshe ben Chana Hendel

May everyone have a refuah shlaima of the nefesh & guf b'toch sha'ar cholei Yisrael.
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bracha
13/2/2019 16:57:14

Firstly, we must always be aware that everything is from H'. B'DE for the victims of this horrific accident. H' YERACHEM!
The SOI is a 'bus' oriented country and that's wonderful because there's always a way of getting around. There are two big mistakes being made with the running of this very important mode of transportation in a small country of precious Jewish neshamot who are being taken for granted by 1) allowing arab bus drivers and 2) by not having the drivers being properly trained and also warned that if they are not responsible in their behaviors (meaning they get angry too fast and have a problem of SPEEDING). Also, would have them pass a test for making sure they are mentally stable. Too many accidents in the Land and when there is much vehicular terrorism of late, and many times, they have to investigate if it was really an accident or terrorism, There seems to be very little accountability on so many levels. There's chaos all over the world, but we should be a light unto the nations and must be accountable so the insanity stops and if the above problems are not taken care of, it will, c'v, continue and only with the coming of Moshiach Tzdkeinu, all this insanity will stop,. .

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Myrtle Rising
13/2/2019 19:47:30

Wow, Bracha. What great points one after the other. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts.

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neshama
13/2/2019 17:31:41

Yes, it is so hard to fathom why some were destined. The two women that passed on were sisters, one leaving behind a baby. I don’t know about the other. But here we see, in life and in death, together. Those poor husbands. Thank you Myrtle Rising.

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Myrtle Rising
13/2/2019 19:48:31

I didn't know about the baby, Neshama. That's heart-breaking.

It's hard indeed. Thank you.

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Leah
13/2/2019 22:34:41

Hashem please send help! Very very sad.
As I was reading your post Myrtle Rising, I reflected on a friend of mine. She she was in Eretz Yisrael. She had her baby with her in the stroller and was waiting for the bus.
She had just purchased a book and wanted to get home quickly as she was excited to start reading. She looked up the road to see if the bus was coming and looked back at the pizza place. She looked back at road and then back to the pizza place. She was hungry and figured she would get the pizza slice or continue to wait for the bus.
She decided that she was hungry and turned to go inside. Just then, the bus showed up and she said to herself, I'll go home as I do have food and I want to read and it will be too long for another bus to come etc..
She hopped on and got home. She then heard on the news that the Sbarro pizza shop where she just was standing was as we now know.....
Shortly after there was another terrorist bombing at another shop, she was a block over when she heard the explosion.
We just never know.....we just never know. Only Hashem knows. It is up to us to continue to live each day to serve Hashem with our greatest efforts. May the choleh have a refuah shelaimoh.
Please Hashem send Moshiach Now!!!!!!

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Myrtle Rising
13/2/2019 23:48:33

I'm really glad to hear that your friend and her little baby weren't hurt. The Sbarro bombing was so horrific. And gosh, she was near another one also? I remember that period, and the fear and tension in the air.

"It is up to us to continue to live each day to serve Hashem with our greatest efforts." -- Thanks for that chizuk, Leah. I really needed to hear it.

"Please Hashem send Moshiach Now!!!!!!"

Amen to that -- ken yehi ratzon!

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michael
13/2/2019 23:28:33

perhaps the bus sped by because the driver was a speeding driver

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Myrtle Rising
13/2/2019 23:43:19

Could be. I'm interested in hearing the results of the investigation because so much of the accident was so strange (and so sad).

Thank you.

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Leah
14/2/2019 18:59:52

Yes, so true. Looking forward to your posts.

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