[Avodah] ein mazal l'Yisrael

[Lisa Liel]

On 3/7/2013 4:51 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>
> Ein mazal leYisrael doesn't mean that necessarily a nakhri's life is
> dictated by luck. That's the converse, not the contrapositive, of
> the aphorism.
>
> (Definitions:
>      Given: Every X is Y
> then the contrapositive would be
>      Whenever not-Y, it can't be an X.
> and the contrapositive is always as true as the given. The converse
> would be
>      Every not-X is not-Y
> which could be true or not.)
>
> And if you're willing to except the Jew who is poreiq ol, what about
> the chasid umos ha'olam?
>    
But ein mazal l'Yisrael comes from Avraham and the stars that Hashem 
showed him.  So it wouldn't apply to the chasid umot ha'olam.  Nor, 
necessarily, would it apply to a Yisrael mumar.

Lisa