[Avodah] sheasani yisrael

[Rich, Joel]

RJR wrote (39/10): “ About 50 years ago if I recall correctly I heard R' N Alpert ZT"L say that the reason we don't say a bracha sheasani yisrael is that HKBH can only give us the opportunity to be so but it is up to us to make ourselves so.
It has stuck with me a long time.”
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I’m not sure I understand. Aren’t we taught that a Yisrael, even one who has sinned, remains a Yisrael? So each of us is a Yisrael by birth no matter what we do.
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My post was lhashkafa, lmaaseh CLOR :-)
Shabbat Shalom
Joel Rich

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