[Avodah] Getting punished or rewarded in olam hazeh

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 04:21:29PM +0300, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
> How does that work? If punishment in olam haba is much worse how does the
> punishment in olam hazeh take care of it? Likewise, if reward in olam haba
> is so much greater how can reward in olam hazeh wipe out your reward in
> olam haba?

I think things go awry when we think of mitzvos and sekhar in terms
of collecting brownie points. These things aren't fungible.

Back to the basics. We know from RH leining that Hashem saved Yishmael
because He judged him "baasher hu sham". We lein that on RH so that we
remember this point during yemei hadin.

So, we're not talking about counting mitzvos, or collecting their totral
weight. We're talking about the roshem each mitzvah made on the person.
Or ch"v, each aveirah.

If a punishment in olam hazah makes the person regret their actions,
then baasher hu sham changed. If they follow through, it changed more.

It might be that in the olam ha'emes, it takes much more to effect change.
Especially since the onesh can't followed up by teshuvah, in the same
sense of the word "teshuvah".

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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