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[Zev Sero]

On 28/06/2011 3:49 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 01:37:44PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>>> Arguable. But the peteq would have had to fall during the early bayis
>>> sheini period -- galus Bavel or galus Yavan.
>
>> There was a beis hamikdash, where open miracles were seen every day.
>
> So it's not about galus, it's about the absense of a beis hamiqdash?

That's what galus *is*.


> In any case, which daily miracles happened in bayis sheini?

Presumably the ones listed in Pirkei Avos.


> If there were a neis during bayis sheini that lo ira qeri lekohein gadol
> bayom yakippurim, why did they did they need to keep him up all night?

Ein somchin al hanes.



>> Open miracles are not non-existent during galus, they're just rare.
>> Tzadikim are not personally in galus...
>
> I didn't think people were in galus. I thought galus was a state the
> Shechinah was in, which results in historical effects like the diaspora.

On the contrary, galus is what happens to us.  That the Shechina also
goes into galus is "`imo anochi batzarah".  "Galu levavel, Shechina
`imahem", not vice versa.

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Zev Sero        If they use these guns against us once, at that moment
zev at sero.name   the Oslo Accord will be annulled and the IDF will
                 return to all the places that have been given to them.
		                            - Yitzchak Rabin