The pundits and Monday morning quarterbacks are out there. A cell phone would have saved his life they say. Why was he wearing his hat and jacket dont these charedi yeshiva guys know the proper dress for a hike. Blame the yeshivos for not letting bochurim have cell phones. On and on the commentors got it down pat. Guess what, experienced hikers get lost too. Cell phone batteries run out and there isn't always reception. Do we know what realy happened in this case?
Why dont they blame themselves for not searching the entire area right away? why did it take so long to decide on the specific area where he was found . They should have done a walk through of the entire forest immediately. why did it take 6 days for these professional organizations to find the Niftar.
A freak story like this has no answers its a cheshbon from shomayim, and it is worse to use it to attack and besmirch the yeshivos and charedim. The circumstances here dont call for any of this second guessing. In the hesped for Aaron Z'L the Rosh yeshiva Rav Tzvi Kaplan spoke how the Bochur went like a yeshiva man with his hat and jacket. Its a shame when a tragedy is used to further an agenda of hate to the Torah world masked behind saftey.
Is it, or is it not, a good idea to go hiking on a hot day wearing a hat and jacket?
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't understand the point that you are trying to make. Are you claiming that if a charedi yeshivah bochur does something unsafe and dies as a result, nobody should point it out, and if they do then it must be because they hate charedim?
ReplyDeleteThe trip was first a visit to yad vashem going to the forest was an afterthought.
DeleteI would guess he didn't specifically want to hike with a hat and jacket, but didn't want to publically travel to the forest without them on, and had no where to leave them once he got there.
ReplyDeletePersonally I would have just stayed home. But I highly doubt if this had any connection to his death. Hat and jacket or not, no one is going to survive with no water for 6 days.
Do you mean to say the pundits are wrong when they assert that you should have a phone with you when you hike? And that you should hike without a hat and jacket?
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