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[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:12:43PM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: It's the other way around. People are in galus -- Am Yisrael is in galus -- 
:  and the Shechinah is in galus with us, in sympathy with us you might say, 
: "imo  Anochi vetzarah."  

As Lisa already cited, the Seder Olam says that the four galios are one
after the other, meaning that the latter part of Paras uMaddai and nearly
all of galus Yavan refer to times in which we had a functioning BHMQ.

The kohanim doing avodah in bayis sheini were in galus, and the Shechinah
departed in sympathy?

: "Veshavti es shvus Yakov."

A more precise quote would be Yirmiyahu's reference to "lekhol galus
Yehudah asher beVavel" (29:22), or his opening words "ad gelos Y-m
bachodesh hachamishi" (1:3).

I'm not sure about cause and effect. The tokhachah seems to say that
HQBH would abandon us to miqreh and being subject to natural law would
lead to our exile. Which I would take to mean that galus haShechinah is
the cause, not the sympathetic response.

But in either case, I think that when we speak of "galus" we're referring
more to the metaphysical state of separation from the Almighty than any
of its physical manifestations.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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