[Avodah] Jewish impact

Alexander Seinfeld seinfeld at daasbooks.com
Sun Jan 3 22:46:33 PST 2021


Pirkei Avot Ch. 5 lists several worldwide calamities that God causes or
allows to occur in response to Jewish actions or inactions, including
³dever² (plague/pestilence).

It is possible that Avot only refers to Israel, not the world, despite the
language, ³comes to the world.²

Question - is there any source for this ethic being limited to those sins
and calamities listed there, or the contrary, for the ethic being extended
to sins or calamities not listed there?





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