Yekke
I didn’t dance around anything. I have been drawing a distinction between personal hishtadlus and public policy.
Let me ask you this
During the Cuban missile crisis when we were close to nuclear war , do you think it was hishtadlus to protest nuclear war and if not why not?
My answer, is the same as Rav reismans. “Nuclear war is outside our hishtadlus all I can control is whether or not I am a good person”.
We have a very limited amount of control on the world. We have to do some personal hishtadlus in parnasa and health because we are commanded to and because we aren’t allowed to rely on miracles. But this is only because Hashem commanded this. Attempting to expand outside of this zone smacks of “koach v’atzum yudi “
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