[Avodah] Halakhah and compulsion

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:21pm EDT, I forwarded:
: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:11:03 +0300
: From: Yeshivat Har Etzion <office at etzion.org.il>
: Subject: SICHOT68 -36: Parashat Shelach
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:                           Parashat SHELACH
:                 SICHA OF HARAV YEHUDA AMITAL SHLIT"A
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:                          An Unready Generation
:                        Summarized by Shaul Barth
:                        Translated by Kaeren Fish
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: Rav Kook, in Part I of his Letters (20), explains that sometimes, when
: God sees that Am Yisrael is not worthy of a certain matter, He creates
: a situation where, technically, it is beyond the realm of possibility.
: To the extent that the nation's power or level is deficient, so its
: capability is lacking, and this lack of ability testifies to God's
: Will in this regard. Rav Kook goes on to explain that one of the ways
: in which God does this is through the nation's incapacity to accept the
: matter; citing the law of tokhacha (rebuke) that "it is a mitzva not to
: say words that will not be listened to" (Yevamot 65b), he teaches that
: sometimes the nation is not ready for a certain thing, and therefore
: this matter "will not be listened to" by the nation. This phenomenon in
: itself shows that God does not yet want this thing to come about because
: the generation is not yet worthy of it. Such obstacles are evidence of
: God's supreme Will at such times.
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Would RAYK say that we are not worthy of mechiyas Amaleiq, and therefore
Hashem put it beyond the realm of possbility? I know I'm not worthy
of understanding its morality, and can not picture being capable of
nipeitz es ollayikh el hasela (even if that pasuq is about a different
group of Esav's children, it illustrates my problem) Or would he give
another reason?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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