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Comment on Saving Ones Own First by David Bildner
 
Posted: 31 Jul 2007 12:20 AM CDT
http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2007/07/saving-ones-own-first.shtml#comment-5984


I feel presumptuous in commenting on this topic, but here goes.  While I find the level of emuna demonstrated by the father in R’ Tzevi Hirsch Meisels story admirable, I also find the story troubling.  There are 2 ways to look at the world and our interactions with it:  either the world and all action has a default value of permissible except where there is a specific prohibition that excludes our participation. or the world and all participation in it has a default value of prohibited except where we have specific exemption from the prohibition of action and are thus permitted to participate in a narrowly circumscribed circumstance.  It appears to me that the father is of the first school - all human activity is forbidden unless we are given a specific dispensation from the general prohibition of Jewish participation in the world.  This outlook clashes badly with my deeply held (but not deeply educated) view of G-d as wanting us to enjoy and use the world He created for us.  It is not wrong to enjoy and appreciate G-ds world.  That is why we have blessings to recite when we enjoy the things that G-d put in the world for us or appreciate the wonders of nature.  To me, the ooposing view seems almost blasphemous, or at least deeply lacking in an appreciation of all the good that G-d does for us.




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