[Avodah] Apikores?

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> Except that it's not so much that the child was blinded, but that the
> child never had sight -- and has no innate right to such "sight".
> There is a difference between being harmed and never having had a
> benefit. The child has a right to sight, and it's unjust to deprive
> him of it, and even unjust to refrain from getting all available help
> to help one's blind child. But that presumes a child has a right to
> sight and is therefore being deprived of the fair thing.
> 
> If sight is considered a priviledge, the whole line of reasoning
> doesn't get started. Then the question of justice becomes
> understanding how sight was earned for those who get it.

Malbim on "mi som peh lo'odom" presents this position as Moshe Rabbenu's
hava-amina, which Hashem tells him is mistaken.

Not that you have to agree with the Malbim, of course.

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