[Avodah] SHOMER PESA'IM HASHEM

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:02:18AM -0500, Cantor Wolberg wrote:
: As any psychologist or psychiatrist will tell you, there are people  
: sufficiently disturbed mentally
: where they cannot be held responsible (as we would) for committing  
: suicide. My question is:
: Why didn't HaShem protect them? ...

Why do we find shelichei mitzvah who are r"l nizaqin?

I think it's for the same reason that Aristotle never discovered the
law of conservation of momentum. The law exists, but in real examples
there is almost always other factors involved. Gravity, friction, etc...
convert that momentum into other unrecognizable forms. (Typically the
momentum of molecules as heat.)

In the real world, there are so many factors that go into defining
"letav avad", we can't take any other rule and ask why it doesn't
always dominate.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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