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<DIV>>I happen to think we in our generation, and especially from an<BR>>educational standpoint our young people, are more in need of examples<BR>>of tziduk hadin and moving forward in life despite disappointment,<BR>>loss and suffering, than we are in need of further gushes of chicken<BR>>soup for our already entitlement-ridden souls. Because this genre has<BR>>become so ubiquitous, and we are encouraging people to identify (as if<BR>>they could!) `hashgacha pratis' in their lives, I fear we are weakening<BR>>rather than strengthening the kind of emuna needed to make it through the<BR>>real lives most of us lead, the ones in which people die, illness hurts,<BR>>and hopes are dashed, at least sometimes....<BR></DIV>
<DIV>I do not see this as all or nothing here. Although seemingly, for the one who </DIV>
<DIV>received = "hashgosha protis" and for the one who lost = tziduk hadin (leaving </DIV>
<DIV>everyone else = ?) what the story really tells is that the RBS"O runs the world - </DIV>
<DIV>someone who is supposed to get will get and one who shouldn't won't.</DIV>
<DIV>( I seem to recall reading that this was the idea behind the relative explosion </DIV>
<DIV>of these types of stories.)</DIV>
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<DIV>As far as needing more examples of tziduk hadin, we may need them but</DIV>
<DIV>I think that human nature makes that difficult - everyone likes and spreads </DIV>
<DIV>a geshmak story, not so much when not (unless you are a Magid...)</DIV>
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<DIV>kol tuv,</DIV>
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