We bentched Rosh Chodesh Elul the day before Hurricane Irene struck. Boruch Hashem it was much more mild than anticipated. However, two tragedies in the frum world were reminiscent of the tefillos we will soon be saying on the Yomim Noraim.
A man was electrocuted by fallen live wires as he was helping a child, and a woman drowned when the motel she was staying in was flooded. In וּנְתַנֶּה תּקֶף we say מִי יִחְיֶה וּמִי יָמוּת (who will live and who will die) and specifically, מִי בַמַּיִם. וּמִי בָאֵשׁ (who by water and who by fire).
May the new year bring only simchas to Klal Yisrael.
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