[Avodah] Truth, Absolute Truth, Prophecy

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 10:44:12AM +1100, Rabbi Meir G. Rabi via Avodah wrote:
> The Navi reprimanded him
> mind your own business
> not HKBH's business.
> InOtherWords,
> HKBH knows what He's doing
> DON'T MIX IN
> Just do as you're told.

> Why does this not apply to
> Rivkah and YaAkov's meddling
> to gain the blessings from Yitzhak

Why does it not apply to a choleh eating on Yom Kippur? Isn't that
another version of the same question?

Or perhaps a closer match: Eliyahu behar haKarmel. He brought a qorban
on a bamah because eis la'asos Lashem, which is arguably what Rivqa was
also doing.

I think in Chizqiyahu's it has more to do with knowledge of the future,
and how treating it as certain violates free will. His son had to exist
and be given the choice of becoming the rasha he did. You cannot predecide
these things.

Hishtadlus must depend on trying your best to shape the future for
the better, and not acting on glimpses you get of that (potential?)
future.

(Bad things need not happen, so any negative nevu'ah perhaps should
be called only "potential future".)

An enlightening and enjoyable Zos Chanukah!
-Micha

-- 
Micha Berger                 The mind is a wonderful organ
http://www.aishdas.org/asp   for justifying decisions
Author: Widen Your Tent      the heart already reached.
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