[Avodah] Can we force Hashem to do something?

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:20:45PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> : David Riceman wrote:
> : >See Rashi on last week's parsha 23:21 s.v. "Ki lo yisa l'pish'achem": 
> : >"Shehu min hakat she'ainan hotin", implying that not all angels are 
> : >alike in this regard.
> 
> : Unless the "group that doesn't sin" refers to all angels.
> 
> Not likely. Rashi was writing colloquial, not symbolic logic.

No symbolic logic necessary.  He might simply mean that angels *are*
"the group that doesn't sin", and therefore one must be careful around
them.   RDR assumes that "shehu min..." excludes some other group of
angels; I see no reason why it shouldn't instead exclude non-angels.
There is a kat that sins, i.e. humans, but he is from the kat that
doesn't, i.e. angels.


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