[Avodah] Choices?

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:21:33PM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
: The Rambam [codified in S"A E"H 22:7] states that, if a man's business is
: such that he can't avoid even "only" rabbinic yichud issues, he should
: yifneh l'mlacha acheret (find another line of work)...

: Does HKB"H view it as equivalent to any other choice one could've made or
: is one dinged for the original choice when it was made? [is moving into
: an apartment building knowing one will need to use a manned elevator on
: Shabbat another example? How about certain medical specialties ]

Questions like these are unanswerable, since we can't know how Hashem
judges.

And if He truly judges "baasher hu sham" and "chai gever al chata'av",
then it's the results of the chain of history on the soul, and one can't
isolate the judgment on this decision or that action.

Along these lines, think of how sekhar va'onesh works if one accepts
REED's notion of nequdas habechirah. Someone is tempted and lifts
something from a store counter. It r"l never crossed that person's mind
not to. There never was a conscious decision about it, so bechirah chofshi
wasn't involved. How much onesh does he get for shoplifting? How much
onesh does he get for whatever moved his nequdas habechirah to the point
where he is in that sorry state? And, what if he didn't do the moving,
it was a product of nature or nurture? Then he would be a tinoq shenishba,
which is an application of oneis in the gemara, and oneis Rachmana patrei?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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