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size=2>From: "Danny Schoemann" <</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>>>We do see cases of angels making mistakes. Some
examples:<BR><BR>- The Bnei Elohim were supposedly angles who seduced
humans<BR><BR>- The angels that went to destroy Sdom had to admit to Lot that
all<BR>was not in their hands, after bragging they were in charge.<BR><BR>- In
Chagiga there's a story of the Angel of Death's gofer killing the<BR>wrong
person - and it's made to sound like a non-rare
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size=2>>>>><BR>I've always understood this kind of stories in a
"dibra Torah beloshon bnei Adam" kind of way, that they are stories told as seen
from a human perspective with lessons that we humans are supposed to learn from
them. On a more fundamental level, even the "mistakes" made by
angels are willed and decided by Hashem, like robots that are programmed to
occasionally "make mistakes" so that the humans who are interacting with them
will have some particular role to fill. </FONT></DIV>
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size=2>An analogy to this would be the trees in Bereishis that were supposed to
be "etz pri oseh pri" -- the wood and bark was supposed to be edible fruit
but the trees "didn't listen" and instead produced inedible trunks.
Obviously the trees had no free will and both what they were "supposed" to do
and what they actually did do came straight from Hashem with no mediating
thoughts on the part of the trees.</DIV>
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