[Avodah] Akeidah vs. Chet Eigel

[Michael Poppers]

In Avodah Digest V26#39, RRW responded to R'Micha:
> Pokdi Is not punishment more like legacy or maybe karma
> We are still suffering from cheit adam harishon and from cheit hameraglim
and from cheit ho'egel.
> AISI it is not retribution so much as the lingering after affect. <
The "first person" of Shmos 32:34 sounds like hQbH actively utilizing that
cheit [ha-eigel] rather than it being "background radiation."

> Now the din can be spread out only 4 doros. Cheshbon on fundamental
prototypical aveiros can linger for a while. <
R'Micha seemed to be asking why "a while" is more (in terms of doros) like
la'alafim than ribei-im. Specifically, he asked, "The contrast of thousands
of generations vs four being pointed out as a statement of midas
haRachamim. Well, we're well past ribei'im on the eigel. Ideas?"  My
tuppence (perhaps influenced by something RYReisman said last night ;-)) is
that "poqeid avon avos" occurs to each dor in the precise measure of *midas
haRachamim* it requires for its own good (for fill-in-the-blank reasons: as
a spur to proper actions, to force emigration, ...).

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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