<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><<Remember Yovah<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">From such a terse response, I can't tell whether RET is supporting the idea of removing nevuah from this discussion, or whether he's citing an example which shows that it should remain *in* the discussion, so I'll offer my ideas...</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">But this question has already been asked and answered. Yonah did receive a DCFG, and he did apply his personal senses to it, and he did conclude that the "right thing to do" was to evade/avoid the DCFG.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">And he was wrong.>></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font face="arial, sans-serif">Apologies for the terseness</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">what I meant is the meforshim try and "justify" Yonah by saying that he ran away from a direct commend of Hashem in order to protect the Jewish people (ie the goyim do more teshuva than the Jews).</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thus he may have been wrong but he is defended as having his heart if the right place. He is certainly not pictured as a rasha.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">There is a prohibition for a navi to conceal (kovesh) his prophecy. Nevertheless Yonah is given a second chance.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Perhaps Yonah was using the rationale of RAL. He prefered to do a sin by disregarding his nevuah in order to save the Jewish people from G-d's wrath but he would do teshuva later</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">BTW it is far from clear what the message of the sefer of Yonah is. I have heard many (YK) derashot with different views on what the sefer is teaching.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div><br>
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