[Avodah] psychologistst and sfarim chitzonim)

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:21:32PM -0800, Harvey Benton wrote:
: psychologists and (neuro-scientists); explain many of our behaviour patterns
: (differences in behaviour (red-headded v. bond, right v. left handed, v. 
: ambidexterouts, etc, ) but they also (find excuses???
: for a-bberrant behaviour (in our opinion) (frum) like child molestation, 
...

Everyone has different challenges. Some worse than others. Falling prey
to one's inherent weaknesses might be a reason why HQBH would judge
them more leniently. We might also wish to have rachmanus on someone
who failed under a test the Creator didn't impose on us. But all this
carries no weight in beis din shel matah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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