[Avodah] shidduch statistics

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Saul Mashbaum wrote:
: This is the basis of the Talmudic principle that the mitzva of haggada on
: leil haseder
: requires "matchil b'gnut u'mesayyem b'shvach". The "gnut" shows that the
: exodus was from
: an intolerable situation, a genuine geula. Lacking this, our emotional
: response
: to the exodus experience would not be nearly as intense.

I suggested on Aspaqlaria recently (in a thought sparked by this
discussion) that this might be why birkhas gevurah is all about HQBH
saving someone -- Mechayeh meisim, Someikh nofelim, Rofei Cholim, Matir
asurim. If it weren't for such moments of yeshu'ah, we wouldn't notice
His Gevurah.

(The Gra makes a different connection, which I mention in Ashirah
Lashem. Gevurah is the strength to stand fast, and thus HQBH's Gevurah
is about His giving us the room to get into messes then then require a
yeshu'ah. This is how the expansion of the third term in "haKeil haGadol
haGibor vehaNora" is "Qonei hakol" -- which the Gra translates "Repairer
of the universe.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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