[Avodah] Right/Wrong

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 06/05/2015 11:16 AM, Kenneth Miller via Avodah wrote:
>> >Eruvin (13b): For two and a half years Beith Shammai and
>> >Beith Hillel argued. These [Beith Shammai] said "It is
>> >better for man not to have been created than to have been
>> >created." And those [Beith Hillel] said "It is better for
>> >man to have been created."

> There is a thought in this thread that if G-d does something, then it
> is good by definition. Yet Beis Hillel and Beis Shammai considered the
> possibility that G-d had another option which was even better than the
> option that He did choose.

The discussion was not about what is good or right, but about what is
better *for a person*.  What is in the person's interest. "Noach lo le'adam".
What G-d chooses for a person is right, but who says it's "noach lo"?

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