tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post7373086457294669183..comments2023-10-24T00:40:27.831-07:00Comments on Friar Yid: Profoundly Not OkFriar Yid (not Shlita)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10311439778319103094noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-92179509574813491562013-05-02T19:02:23.601-07:002013-05-02T19:02:23.601-07:00Garnel, very well said.
Even though I am not Orth...Garnel, very well said. <br />Even though I am not Orthodox, I agree some of Lazer Brody's videos. However, his statement about the Glaubers as being a "ritual sacrifice" is really off the deep end. We cannot presume to know the designs of Hashem. "My ways are not they ways, saith the Eternal". We just have to trust in Hashem. Speculation about Hashem's actions and assuming a kind of direct cause and effect is borderline heresy in my personal opinion. <br />Dave. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-88238647690265932062013-03-10T01:33:42.841-08:002013-03-10T01:33:42.841-08:00I find that the deeper a person thinks he is the m...I find that the deeper a person thinks he is the more linear his thinking pattern.<br />So he looks for cause and effect, sees a quick one and tries to give a deep answer to it.<br />As for real cause and effect, as the old story goes the rabbi was asked what sin the community was committing because it had suffered so many traffic accidents. His reply was the sin of not driving more carefully.Garnel Ironheartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23499413.post-85651257854633112742013-03-07T21:41:18.803-08:002013-03-07T21:41:18.803-08:00I've encountered this kind of thinking before....I've encountered this kind of thinking before. A new mother whose baby died* asserted her infant was "sent" by God for the sole purpose of seeing her mother light Shabbat candles once and then "God reclaimed her" because He needed the baby to be an angel. It seems to be a way of rationalizing anything bad that happens to Jews without actually blaming or doubting "God's Plan" which an Orthodox Jew simply cannot do without losing his/her faith. After all, how CAN a believing Jew explain how a loving God can allow tragedy, whether personal or something as major as the Holocaust? To a person of faith, nothing can ever be random. I agree it is nausea-provoking, but there it is.<br /><br />*It's a long story, but this woman's previous baby had been stillborn, and there was considerable evidence that she might have smothered this one. She was obviously seriously mentally ill as well as being haredi.Antigonoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01022875780607194845noreply@blogger.com