[Avodah] Redemption

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 06:36:45PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
: I concede that to be a real pasuk, Tehillim 94:1. But when I see "HYD"
: actually spelled out (rather than just the rashei taivos), the nun is
: often missing. "Hashem yikom damam" - Hashem will uphold their blood.
: Not quite the same thing as vengeance. I've long wondered which is
: intended, when only the rashei taivos appear.
: 

Hashem yiqqom damam does indeed refer to revenge.

: In any case, even if Hashem *is* a God of Vengeance, that doesn't mean
: it's appropriate for us.

Keil neqamos H'. (A little obvious this discussion didn't span a Wed yet.)

But the whole point, to my mind, for sayibng HYD is a longing to see
Divine Justice in the world. HYD undoes the chilul hasheim of the
wicked prospering.

Hinasei shofit ha'atzetz... Ad masair recha'im ya'alozu...

If we were to take neqamah (qua neqamah; pre-empting a repeat attack
is a different thing) we rob most of the possibility of that happening.
Even the Six Day War gave people the opportunity to say it was luck or
human skill -- "Kol haKavod laTzahal"

Implied in HYD is that revenge is G-d's, not ours, to take.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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