[Avodah] Ultra-Orthodox suffering in COVID-19 pandemic due to sins of community

Rich, Joel JRich at Segalco.com
Tue May 12 22:17:58 PDT 2020


[Micha:]
> But again, even in the Rambam, the response to suffering is to look for
> what to do teshuvah about. Not to think you do or can find a cause. The
> response is not about causality.

See Chulin 7b:
Rava  seems to think some suffering is not announced above

    R. Eleazar said: The blood of a bruise atones like the blood of
    a burnt-offering. Raba added: It is only the blood of a second
    bruising of the thumb of the right hand that atones, and then only
    if it happened to one who was about to do a religious act.

KT and Be Well
Joel Rich


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