tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post3638993686344731516..comments2024-03-28T21:21:02.777-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: the gate of tears is never closedChaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-47912205582025573362012-07-09T22:39:05.478-04:002012-07-09T22:39:05.478-04:00so the Beis Yisrael's reading argues with the
...so the Beis Yisrael's reading argues with the<br />Seforno's-- in the B.Y.'s version, the people did NOT stifle cries of protest initially, as even mute tears (tefilah) would've somehow* averted the ongoing public desecration by the leaders; said otherwise, the people's memory of the lesson of "their prior misdeed" was short-lived, since they didn't courageously<br />protest/oppose the action of Zimri, but rather sniffled helplessly (though Hopefully) beside the tent {while if the Zimri video [viral, youtube] was a zoom shot taken during 25:3, rather than a sequel, the 2 readings seem to argue even more}<br /><br />*were Hashem's words to Moshe, 25:4, an answer to the prayers of bystanders, although He'd have<br />preferred their righteous indignation? did He<br />answer weepy prayers with a death sentence for<br />the violaters, while answering the absence of communal religious wrath, with a plague? when just one man (Pinchas) showed the requisite wrath-- the attitude Hashem was waiting for (from many)-- He mercifully judged any continuance of that plague redundant...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com