I have been to Meron twice since the disaster.
Once exactly two weeks after it.
I passed the mountain, hesitated for a moment and continued on my way without entering.
The truth is that I simply could not forgive Rashbi for the disaster that shook every corner of my mind.
Two months after that I was already a little reconciled.
I went in, prayed, visited the area of disaster that changed his face and pondered in horror at something I had noticed around me: a world as it used to be.
Just as I adapted and went inside, so too did the site itself come back to life, and visitors flock to it en masse.
Hence the question arises: and what will happen next year?
Could it be that this terrible, horrific, unprecedented disaster will also fall into the basket of "happening"?
Of events that should be lived alongside and let the world behave as it does?
A year has passed, and that is exactly what is happening.
I do not underestimate the new ticket layout, which is said to be efficient and professional, and also parts of the work of the commission of inquiry that I watched made a professional and meticulous impression.
But Lag B'Omer 5762 in Meron strikes us with a chilling naturalness: once again ascending the mountain without a substantial change, there will again be events without those being found responsible for the default.
Although a whole year has passed, the commission of inquiry has not finished its work for some reason, again singing instead of shouting.
That night and the morning after, a shout broke out.
This shout should have continued to be heard in the space of the world forever, but certainly it should not have been silenced so quickly, even before the cart was decapitated on the creek and before the proclamation "Our hands have not shed and our eyes have not seen," and especially: "Atonement for your people Israel."
The blood of the victims screams and bubbles.
And that the compensation decided on by the Finance Committee silences him?
Does the layout of the cards silence him?
Can the world really repeat its custom because such a catastrophe "happens"?
According to reports, the professional event headquarters is doing an excellent job.
I am sure (or almost certain) that monitoring the amount of visitors, regulating events and roadblocks will do the job at the safety level.
And that's it?
Will no further, major, shocking step be taken by institutional institutions in the name of the 45 victims?
They may not be the only focus on preventing another disaster.
"His voice sang tyrants and cut off all the thorns and saved the oppressed Lord Bar Yochai," it was said in a piyyut about the Tanna Rashbi.
Were we wrong?
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