[Avodah] A shemitta miracle story

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:46:08PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
: Dov Bloom wrote:
:> Anyone in Eretz Yisrael who looks at agricultural economics knows that
:> last year (5767) was not a great year at all! Certainly it did not give
:> a threefold yield ( VeTziviti et haBracha beShana HaShishi VeAsat et
:> HaTevuah LeShalosh HaShanim). 

: And yet it did for the people of Mevo Horon, who put their trust in it.

Anyone who explains an event as reward for a particular mitzvah is
assuming the burden of explaining tragedy in terms of sin, explaining
why one person gets reward and another not, etc....

For example, today was my daughter's yahrzeit (it's now after tzeis).
The only one of my wife's family to have gone through anything that
horrible was the one who became frum. Fortunately, my wife is "an FFB
who took a while to realize it, rather than a BT". Because the way we
teach bitachon and sechar va'onesh to BTs would have ch"v convinced her
that experimentally, her life choice was proven wrong.

Reductio ad absurdum. The same line of reasoning gets you places I don't
think you would want to go when dealing with the tragic, therefore the
line of reasoning must be flawed and unusable here too.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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