[Avodah] proofs of G-d

[Ben Waxman]

>From: Daniel Eidensohn <yadmoshe at 012.net.il>
>I was not talking about understanding tragedy but rather using it to do
>teshuva by publicly asserting causal  linkage.


So that I understand your position: Are you stating that making 
linkages is OK as long as it is done an educational method, a way of 
getting people to do teshuva?

Why not simply get rid of the linkage and use the tragedy itself to 
get people to do tshevua? Instead of linking, the gadol could say 
something like: "Tragedy has struck Am Yisrael. It is the 
responsibility of every Jew, man and woman, to search his actions and 
find ways to do teshuva, in the same way that it is the 
responsibility of every Jew to get rid of bread before Pesach." Period.

The problems with linkage manifold. The biggest is that the 
"philosophers" amongst us will all say to ourselves (and out loud) 
"He doesn't really mean that this is the reason, he is just saying 
something to get us to repent" and once someone says that then the 
impact of the linkage falls apart.

Ben