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YOU HEVE BEEN WARNED!
Because you let them?
The pasuk says “Va’yar HaSh-m… v’heenay tov me’od”.
HaSh-m, of course, in His infinite wisdom, can see that it is tov me’od.
We, in our extremely limited wisdom, have to strive to realize and understand this fact.
It is a big madraiga to attain.
Zees: THat may be R’ Miller’s view. Others have a different approach. R’ Hirsch argued that God intentionally created the world imperfect, and He want us to make it better. He created perfect conditions that we can use to make the world better, but the world is not as it should be. The Ramban in Bereishis alludes to a similar idea.
True, its not good to to be a grouch, bear a grudge, and generally be depressed at the state of the world. But that doesn’t mean we should think the owlrd is perfect; it obviously is not. Instead of talking about how bad thing are, however, we have to ACT to make them better.
I don’t have a Chumash accessible at the moment, so I don’t know if any of the meforshim say this, but it’s pretty safe to assume that if little old me just had this thought, that at least some of our chachamim had it long ago…
(anyway here goes…)
The pasuk says HaSh-m saw “kol” and it was “tov me’od”.
Perhaps this means (seeing “kol”) that He saw the universe in it’s entirety, ALL that He had created, the WHOLE picture, so to speak, and seeing ALL, it was very good.
Our problem is, we do not see ALL.
We generally have a very limited view of things, and davka because we do NOT see “kol”, i.e. we do NOT see the whole picture, we may, mistakenly, not realize that the world is “tov me’od.”
As I said in my previous comment, it’s something we need to work on.
Who is this Rabbi Miller?
Zeeskite, there are people suffering terrible yissurin that are so difficult one cannot process what they are going through. Nobody really has the answers as to why some have it easy, and some have a constant struggle.
your zeeskiteness is overwhelming
no wolf – sit you in a room and make you watch three stooges movies!
(come to think of it, I’d probably rather be shot)
WolfishMusings: This is one of my secret technics of getting to know all the anti-happy. (and you location is.. hold it, map it out..) Then we’ll strike with one..
Go ahead. You’re welcome to come and do it.
And the word you’re looking for is “techniques.”
The Wolf
RSRH,
I don’t think the two interpretations are mutually exclusive.
All of the imperfections are planned precisely, hence the imperfect world is in fact a perfect world.
And the word you’re looking for is “techniques.”
A new human spellchecker! 🙂
What happened to my answer for popa’s question?
Wolf,
You’re still waiting? Hang in there.
moshe: Only melacha is chayav misah. To quote the gemara, zil kari bey rav.
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