September 11 2001 was the 23 of Elul 5761.
Today is September 11 and tonight, Friday night, is the 23rd of Elul. The dates overlap.
I find it in incredible that the yahrzeit of September 11 (I knew one person that died personally - Mark Rosenberg - he was my high school dorm counselor) falls on the Shabbos that we read of the choice we have to pick life and good or death and bad.
On September 11, we remember those for whom the choice was made by others, to give them Eternal Life in the world to come.
The perpetrators were (and those like them are) the embodiment of pure evil in this world.
God tells us to Choose Life! We do choose life. Good life is defined by the way we treat and respect others and the things we do to promote peace and harmony on this earth.
Terrorists may think they are getting Eternal Life. But their way, obviously, is not a Jewish way.
May they and their ilk perish from the earth, as they continue to live a dead existence, with their own awful choice of death and destruction.
And for the victims of that day - Y'hi zikhram barukh. And may destroyers of peace have no more power to perpetrate their evil.
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