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Hyperbole: death of Asaf Ramon is "of Biblical proportions"?!
« on: September 14, 2009, 04:37:45 AM »
Hashem will not approve of Pipi's speech that the death of Asaf Ramon was of "Biblical proportions" http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/171037

With all due respect to the departed, Hashem loathes unnecessary and unwarranted superlatives, hyperboles and encomiums, because it leaves no room for the truly great and worthy!

Just before the Yom Kippur War in 1973 there was a massive Zahal military parade in Jerusalem, where Israeli leaders waxed, nay boasted, that the Israeli army was of "Biblical proportions", with "heroes worthy of the Tenach" and "ready for anything and everything" etc.

They were soon taught otherwise!

The Talmud states that excessive mourning and exaggerated tears is actually a Chilul Hashem and an aveiroh that will bring on more deaths.
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