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TorahAnytime - What Happens to a Miscarried Child? - R. Paysach Krohn - TorahAnytime.com

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Author: TorahAnytime
Categories: Lifestyle Education
Tags: lifestyle, education
Views: 2 · Last viewed: 2026-10-16 00:55 UTC

Short Summary

Main recommendation: Parents who have suffered a miscarriage can take comfort in the teaching, attributed to Rav Moshe Feinstein, that children lost in miscarriage are pure and will stand in the front row with the tzadikim at techiyas hameisim (the resurrection of the dead). The answer comes from a letter Rav Moshe wrote to a distressed early-teenage boy whose mother had many miscarriages, and it is presented as a source of consolation.

Key Points

  • The teaching is drawn from Rav Moshe Feinstein's responsa, Igros Moshe, Yoreh De'ah, number 138, which the speaker cites as the source for those who want to look it up.
  • The boy wrote to Rav Moshe after his mother suffered repeated miscarriages at six, seven, and eight months, and he was the only child to survive.
  • Rav Moshe wrote to the boy that he should live to be old and have a great life, before explaining what happens to the miscarried children.
  • The reasoning given is that children who miscarried never sinned, so their hearts are pure from all sin.
  • The speaker says the lost children will stand up front with the tzadikim, and that the boy's siblings will be with them.

Details Worth Noting

  • Concrete instructions: No specific steps, practices, or actions are prescribed; the only actionable element is the suggested source to look up, Igros Moshe, Yoreh De'ah 138.
  • The speaker uses the name Yaakov Leib as an illustrative example of a sinless soul who never spoke lashon hara, never spoke untruth, and never hurt anyone.
  • The speaker says Yaakov Leib is waiting to meet his parents after their 120 years (i.e., after they pass away), as part of the consolation.
  • The speaker presents this as Rav Moshe's view and does not offer it as a general halachic ruling.
  • The account is anecdotal and relayed by the speaker, who says he heard the story from Mordechai Tenenbaum.

Bottom Line

The video offers emotional comfort to bereaved parents by presenting a Rav Moshe Feinstein teaching that children lost in miscarriage are sinless and will be honored at the resurrection.