[Avodah] Kategor and Sanegor

[T613K at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/3/2011, harchinam at gmail.com writes:

>> Saying that Hashem is the sanegor [or even The Sanegor] against  or 
across from the Kategor is just too much like a different religion's ideas  of 
two equal powers [or even somehwat unequal powers on the same level] for my  
taste.<<

 
>>>>>
 
I had no such intention or thought of "two powers" in my mind  c'v and I am 
glad that you clarified that.  
 
Sefer Iyov (among other sources) makes it clear that the Satan cannot act  
on his own initiative, that he is just another malach with a mission to  
perform -- he is the yetzer hara, he is the prosecutor and he is the malach  
hamaves -- it is his mission to attempt to get people to sin and then to 
punish  them if they do -- but underneath it all, he doesn't /reallly/  want 
people to sin, he wants them to resist his wiles and to do  Hashem's will.  The 
Torah's picture of the Satan is quite, quite  different from the xian idea 
of an angel who "rebelled" and set himself up in  his own anti-G-d kingdom!
 
It may be that the sanegor (or The Sanegor) is not Hashem Himself but an  
angel appointed by Hashem to speak for the defense, but that does sound  more 
like an attorney than a witness. Or every person may have his own  sanegor 
(or even many) -- the angel[s] created by his own good deeds that  testify 
on his behalf.  In any case, I think we are in the land of  metaphors here 
and don't have a crystal clear idea of what goes on Up There  -- other than 
the knowledge that we are on trial and that our fate hangs in the  balance.
 

--Toby Katz
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