The first text message many received last Tuesday read: 5 Yidden drowned in Miami. Condition critical. Please say Tehillim.

No names were mentioned but knowing that so many Yidden are vacationing in Miami this time of the year made me and everyone else who received the message shudder.

Everyone said a kapitel and davened for the best outcome.

A few minutes later a second SMS arrived requesting urgent tefillos for Yitzchak ben… and Chaim ben… both in critical condition.