[Avodah] Another View on How to Portray People of the

[david guttmann]

R MSS writes I guess quoting Rav Schwab :


>And therefore we should write about those times. "We should tell ourselves
and our children the good memories of the good people, their unshakeable
faith, their staunch defense of tradition, their life of truth, their
impeccable honesty, their boundless charity and their great reverence for
Torah and Torah sages." It is the parts by which no one gains that we should
gloss over, as "What is gained by pointing out their inadequacies and their
contradictions? We want to be inspired by their example and learn from their
experience...."


I do not understand. Can we not learn from their mistakes so that we do not
repeat them? Isn't that a part of Ikar Viduy "aval anachnu Veavoteinu
Chataneu"?


David Guttmann
 
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