[Avodah] Who he could have been

[Rich, Joel]

The Gra writes on Shema that a person must remember three things:
1- I am here to do the tafqid before me
2- I am living now in order to do the tafqid of today
3- I am the only one would could possibly do this tafqid as Hashem
   planned for it to be done.


-Micha

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As I argued lshutatam on the blog, one could argue that even such an
individual as under discussion had a greater tafkid (learning, teaching
torah) and had he completed that alternative tafkid HKB"H would have
sent the refuah quicker, more expansive through other sources. Perhaps
some (many) are zoche to have ruach hakodesh to know what their primary
(if it exists) tafkid was meant to be. I was struck by a question asked
of John Edwards at a candidates gathering with christian believers - it
went something like "how does prayer inform on your decisions and how do
you know it's gods voice you hear and not your own?"  (he didn't answer
daas torah :-))

KT
Joel Rich
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