<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Daniel Eidensohn <<a href="mailto:yadmoshe@012.net.il">yadmoshe@012.net.il</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">R' Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br>
> Agreed. And contrary to the "politically Correct" idea that only<br>
> "tzaddikim" get siyyata dishmaya, I have seen some pretty mediocre<br>
> people and several vanilla Gentiles get incredible siyyata dishmaya.<br>
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</div>page 123 in my sefer Daas Torah in section* *"Torah and Prophesy is<br>
Basis of all Knowledge"<br>
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* The answer is that without this gemora we would have mistakenly<br>
thought that Divinely inspired wisdom only comes to Jews while if a<br>
non‑Jew said something brilliant that seems to transcend his<br>
intellectual capabilities we would have thought it was just blind chance….<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
_</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Yes it is obvious to me that the genius of lemashal a Moazart is a gift from God but not necessarily because he "merited it" at least not in th current gilgul...<br><br><br>-- <br>
Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>