[Avodah] "The Great Miracle of the Volcano Shutdown "

[Allen Baruch]

>I happen to think we in our generation, and especially from an
>educational standpoint our young people, are more in need of examples
>of tziduk hadin and moving forward in life despite disappointment,
>loss and suffering, than we are in need of further gushes of chicken
>soup for our already entitlement-ridden souls. Because this genre has
>become so ubiquitous, and we are encouraging people to identify (as if
>they could!) `hashgacha pratis' in their lives, I fear we are weakening
>rather than strengthening the kind of emuna needed to make it through the
>real lives most of us lead, the ones in which people die, illness hurts,
>and hopes are dashed, at least sometimes....
I do not see this as all or nothing here. Although seemingly, for the one who 
received = "hashgosha protis" and for the one who lost = tziduk hadin (leaving 
everyone else = ?) what the story really tells is that the RBS"O runs the world - 
someone who is supposed to get will get and one who shouldn't won't.
( I seem to recall reading that this was the idea behind the relative explosion 
of these types of stories.)
 
As far as needing more examples of tziduk hadin, we may need them but
I think that human nature makes that difficult - everyone likes and spreads 
a geshmak story, not so much when not (unless you are a Magid...)
 
kol tuv,
Sender Baruch
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