it seems to me taht the best result for self-perfction is to be a hermit in a cave of Sedert Island<br>No issue of LH ribbis ,etc. No hemda, et.c no issue of bein adam lahaveira to worry about at all<br>Plus one can spend Gazillions of hours in studying Mussar and achieve monumental levels of self-perfection?
<br>Why didn't HKBH stick with Moshe at the Sneh? Why bother with a nation at har Sinai? Hkbh could have worked on perfection Moshe as an indvidual Guru of mamoth proportions w/o having to worry about the oligistics of a mation [navol tibol indeed!]
<br>Why bother with masses - filled with temptations to speak LH [Miriam - kal vachomer US!] <br>Hashme should have given the Torah to saintly individuals - He SHOULD have revealed to a guru lhavdil like th Buddha or MOhammed - some individual wh ocoud be a role model Why bother with peoplehood at all!
<br><br>For example, if a Jew is in a cave - would he bet tempte like Korach to be jealous of a Kohein Gadol? Of course not! There is no jealousy when the Torah is applied in total isolation! NO competition, no kin'ah!
<br><br>It's pil'ei P'lai'im that HKBH did not introduce Torah the way other religiions were introduced, viz. privately to gurus. Hmmm <br><br>[And they say sarcasm does NOT work in cyberspace. Let's see!]
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>