On 10/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">.<br><br>The mashal of Eved Hamozeg is designed to illustrate that when we have been denied the opportunity to do the mitzva, we should understand that HaShem is upset with us. Can someone do a search to see if this mashal appears in other contexts? If it appears only by Sukkah, or also appears for other similarly subjective mitzvos, then perhaps we can draw a clear line between the cases where it applies, and the cases where Machshava Mitztaref L'Maaseh applies.
<br><br>Akiva Miller</blockquote><div><br>Completely tangential AISI this concept of eved Mozeig is specific and limited to Eretz Yisrael where the weather is a function of our local behavior - "Tamid Einei Hashem elokecha Bah."
<br><br>OTOH, in the USA I would consider this a matter of Hubris that due to the Jews in the USA alone the entire weather pattern is magically shlepped along. now if you want to say the the mezeg in the USA is a function of the entire USA [not just the Jews here] you would not havea a hubris problem - nevertheless it would still make the USA a weather barometer of our standing with HKBH. AFAIK, this is ONLY a function of Eretz Yisrael
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