[Avodah] Which Is It?

[Zev Sero]

Cantor Wolberg wrote:
> We are taught: 
> Following Mattan Torah, and before the sin of the egel hazahav, the 
> Jewish people were on the level of /tzaddikim/.

If you mean that they were tzadikim by the Tanya's definition, what is
your source?  If they were merely "tzadik badin", innocent in judgment,
all that means is that their previous sins were all forgiven and they
had not yet committed any new ones.  In that sense every ger emerges
from the mikveh a tzadik; but very few stay that way.


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