Nuclear Tefilla

Moshe Rabbeinu begs Hashem not to accept the ketores of Korach and his followers. Wasn't the outcome obvious? Could Hashem really have accepted it, with the whole Torah at stake? The Alter of Kelm calls this a wonder, and finds in it something built into the spiritual DNA of the world. And why does the Rambam call people who fail to cry out in a time of trouble "cruel"?A twelve-year-old boy facing chemotherapy hears what it will do to his hair and runs to his room in tears with one request. It is a new way to think about the next time you daven for someone in pain.