[Avodah] Apikores?

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Dec 5, 2007 10:34 AM, David Riceman <driceman at att.net> wrote:

>
>
> Let's consider the case of a person condemned to pick cotton his entire
> life, brutally beaten by cruel taskmasters, underfed and overworked and
> ... (I'm sure you remember Uncle Tom's Cabin).  In the passage I cited
> (Michtav Me'Eliyahu, vol. 4, pp. 98-102) Rabbi Dessler says that this
> can be, not punishment, but part of the incomprehensible Divine Plan.
> How then, can it also represent perfect justice?
>

Consider the Case of of the 10 martyrs.
q: Zo Torah v'zo sechora?
a: I will turn you backinto Tophu tovohu- gzeirao hi milfanei kabluha!

Well what does this mean?
The story goes of a  tailor who is falsely accused of steeling precous
cuttings from the king's robe
the king demans an expalnation and proof that his trusted tailor has not
stolen anything.
The tailor defends himself: "I can prove everything is kosher but to do so
will require disasembing the king's new royal robe and re-assembling the
bolt"

The king says to do so,. he does and his innocence is proven but the robe is
gone back to its original form as a bolt of precious cloth.

Nimshal, HKBH creatd a free-will system. nitpicking on individual cases
cannot be explained w/o unraveling the entire system.  The world now has 6
billion and the impact of each event is far too complex to be massig at
all.  It's really pointless to discuss God's justice on a particualr event
because of the overwhelming number of factoids involved.

Perhaps if you get lucky and you have a lot of zechuyyos you will understand
how Hashem's Justice is working but even Mose could only be massig in
retrospect as per the Midrash v'ro'isa es achorai.

Virtually all religious/spiritual/philosophical systems says  to give up
controlling the external and to control the internal.

See Wikipedia on Epictetus

The essence of Epictetus's psychology is revealed by two of his most
> frequently quoted statements:
>
> We are disturbed not by events, but by the views which we take of them.
>
>  I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I
> then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from
> going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
>
> Psalm 145
Hanun v'rachum Hashem  ...Tov Hashem lakol
Become affirmations of our Turst and bitachon that Hashem is doing the right
thing regardless of the external events.

And there is the story of Rabbi Akiva and the  candle/donkey/rooster and
gam zu l'tovah.

when one judges HKBH by events on C'V falls into shefot hashoftim,. Judging
THE JUDGE!

-- 
Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
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