Musar sobre II Samuel 7:19

Yet, for everything there is an occasion, and for every experience, a time.¹²Compare Ecclesiastes 3:1-2. R. Salanter is saying that the epidemic has created a time for grief in our life. We also are pained by the untimely loss of life. Nevertheless, we should guide our emotions not to fear the plague. Now that this plague has appeared in the land, and even here—may the Merciful One save us—this is the teaching that should guide a person,¹³Compare II Samuel 7:19. The verse in II Samuel carries the overtone that this guidance is a gracious, unmerited gift from God. and this is common sense: Do not be afraid of [the disease] at all. For what is human life in any case? Who knows if his [future] path [in life] would have turned out [to be] upright. Furthermore, we must act in accordance with the wise doctors’ instructions - for our religion tells us to walk by the light of their words¹⁴Halakhah considers “you shall safeguard your lives very much” (Deut. 4:15) to be a mitzvah. Halakhah also rules that saving a life overrules all of the Torah’s commandments except for three. and thus uphold this life to be good and do good.