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No other loss compares to death. An awful sadness fills the relatives’ hearts as they try to make sense of what has happened. How can it be that this person, whom they loved and was so alive, is suddenly dead and gone? Questions abound: Why didn’t God save my relative? Why is there death at all? What is the purpose of this life in which the righteous often suffer? When faced with these big questions, there is a mitzva to strengthen one’s faith in God, Who has the whole world in His hand. He rules and judges with fairness and justice. Even though sometimes we cannot understand His behavior, we need to have total faith that all He does is just, and for the best. For this reason, the Sages instructed mourners to recite the blessing, “Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, the true Judge.”
