Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Nightly Question - Wednesday Feb 2, 2011
We discussed two very different answers to solving the issue of tzadik vera lo - punishment vs. education. In class today, we saw that the 'Why' question i.e. why do good people suffer, is paralyzing. A better question to ask when we are confronted with the issue of tzadik vera lo is the 'what' question i.e. what can we do now? or how can we respond to this difficult situation. Explain what this means based on our discussion in class.
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In class we discussed many differrent answers to this question, but the answer that I agreed with the most was Dylan Cooper's answer. Dylan said that when you see something bad happening to your friend, you should not only try to figure out why it is happening, but you should also think of what you can do to help your friend.
ReplyDeletenow that we have already been punished, the only thing we can do is accept it, move on and learn from our mistakes.
ReplyDeleteIN class we discussed the question of "How do we respond?" The main answer that we stated is, even if we know why the person got punished we should still help him out so he can get back on his feet move on and learn from his mistakes.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate that Meir. I somewhat disagreed with the interpretation of the Rav (R' Soloveitchik). Like Meir noted, you MUST unravel the underground issues underlying the primary problem at hand. And then take away from it. Learn a lesson or two. Fix the future. Yes, what's passed is past, (as I mentioned in my Prezi, Rabbi) and you should not spend ALL your time trying to see what happened; NONETHELESS, you should spend an adequate amount of time considering the different factors that led to the problem.
ReplyDeleteHappy Trails,
Dylan
p.s. I am over the thesaurus days, Jake.
We have 2 options of what we can do after something bad happens to a good person or people. The first option tou could do is learn from the incident. That would be something positive you could do as a result. But as the Rav Saloveitchik says, you can accept the "evil truth." I do not believe that is the right thing to do. Being proactive and learning from the incident is the right choice
ReplyDeleteIsaac "I once saw a potato" Graber
If something happens to you such as a harsh punishment you have to learn throughout life to grow from what happens not to just ask Hashem why. While it may be hard to just move past and try to grow from it it's something that eases the pain. While I dont believe that everything happens for a reason, that's something that helps them cope so I respect that.
ReplyDeleteI guess this just means that although we may not understand it sometimes, each and every one of Hashem's actions has a unique explanation which, although we may not comprehend sometimes, we can know is always for the best.
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