[Avodah] Birkat Kohanim

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:23:45AM -0400, Richard Wolberg wrote:
:       The question then comes: if HaShem made His presence manifest that
: made it clear He was greater than the sun, couldn't there be a more gentle
: way of informing us?...

No. Yir'ah is related to fear for a real reason. Life is played for high
stakes; sometimes people need reminders of that.

:                      With the poison, you're dealing with an inanimate
: situation, but with HaShem, you would expect more understanding. Also, the
: analogy, though appealing, really isn't satisfying (at least to me).

The poison isn't equally "with Hashem"?

Some things He does because of the value of personalized response. Other
things He does because of the value of our having predictable consequences
for our decisions.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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