<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<p class="quote"><b><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">Nidah</span></font></b><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;"> (16b): </span></b><span style="">“Night”
is the name of the angel in charge
of conception. He takes a drop and places it before G‑d and says: What
will be
with this drop? Strong or weak? Wise or foolish? Rich or poor? However
he
doesn’t ask wicked or righteous. This is in accord with the view that
everything is in the hands of Heaven except for fear of G‑d….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="quote"><b><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">Tosfos</span></font></b><span
class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><sup><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span
style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></sup></b></span><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">(Nidah 16b): Everything is from Heaven
except for fear of
Heaven.</span></b><span style=""> Kesubos (30a) states that <i><span
style="font-style: italic;">everything
is from Heaven except of cold and heat.</span></i> Our gemora is
discussing
human activity and characteristics while the gemora in Kesubos is
describing
things that happen such as illness and calamities which are decreed by
Heaven
and a person can’t guard against them as Chullin (7b) <i><span
style="font-style: italic;">a person doesn’t bruise his finger unless
it has been
decreed in Heaven. </span></i>The exceptions being cold and heat
against which
a person can protect himself. </span><span style="">In apparent
contradiction to our gemora is Berachos (10a) where
Chezkiyahu didn’t want to have children since he knew they would be
wicked.
That shows that before birth it was decreed that they shouldn’t have
fear of
Heaven? One can answer that he knew based upon prophesy what would be
in the
future. Alternatively one can say that many things are dependent upon
mazel
(Shabbos 156a): <i><span style="font-style: italic;">One who is born
under
Jupiter is a righteous person while one born on Shabbos [Saturn] is
called
holy. </span></i>It also recounts there that <i><span
style="font-style: italic;">an
astrologer told the mother of R’ Nachman that he was destined to be a
thief.</span></i>
We can also say that the predestined wickedness of Chezkiyahu’s
children was
not in the Hands of Heaven since G‑d didn’t want to change to pattern
of the
mazal. [Therefore moral qualities which are predetermined by mazal are
not
considered a decree from Heaven].</span></p>
<p class="quote"></p>
<p class="quote"><b><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;"></span></font></b><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b><span style=""></span><br>
<span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style=""><!--[if !supportEndnotes]-->
<div style="" id="edn2">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" dir="rtl"><font face="FrankRuehl"><span
style="font-family: FrankRuehl;" lang="HE"><br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>