[Avodah] Fables and Lies

[Rich, Joel]

	>> To repeat [RBW's] question:
	> the people who are motivated to repent will basing their
avodat
	> Hashem based on a fable, and maybe even on a lie. Do we really
	> want that?
	
	RAM:  My gut reaction is to scream, "No! It is too dangerous!
How will they react when the lie is discovered!" But that consideration
does not seem to have bothered those who chose to include Ayleh Ezk'rah
in the machzor.<<
	
	TK:  And again, I think you are being too sensitive.  Eilah
Ezkarah is not a "lie."  Do the notes to the A/S machzor say that they
never lived and were never persecuted and were never killed by the
Romans?  No it does not.  I think the A/S is to be commended for acting
like adults and not trying to fudge the fact that this poem is just that
-- a literary device.  BASED ON A TRUE STORY -- or actually, ten true
and tragic stories.
	 
	
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	I think the problem is when these are taught as true (or at
least no mention is made) and then kids (adults) believe them like the
ikkarim (meaning someone who says "it's a medrash and may not be
literal" is looked at as a borderline apikores)
	 
	KT
	Joel Rich

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