[Avodah] Chutzpah and Cheilek

[harveybenton at yahoo.com]

RWolberg:
This is something I have always found fascinating. It seems like a  
chutzpa to tell HaShem to take away your cheilek in O.H. If that's  
valid, then you might as well ask HaShem
to take away your cheilek in Gehinnom. The mere fact of asking HaShem  
to take away your cheilek in O.H. implies that you unequivocally  
deserve the cheilek to begin with.

HB: 1. If we have the klal/Chazal, that >>Kol Yisrael Yesh Lahem Cheleik LeOlam Haba, then why assume the worst of oneself to assume he/she will fall into those categories of egrigious sinners that are excepted from that Klal?
2. For an egregious sinner to ask Hashem to give up his Cheilek in Olam Habah would indeed in my opinion be Chutzpa.
3. A non-egregious sinner could always phrase his request to Hashem in a
 conditional tone:  e.g, SHOULD I have a cheiliek in O.H. please apply it towards the following (worthy) causes....
Kol Tuv

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