tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post3605185243940745774..comments2024-03-25T09:43:27.402-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: a pardon for the guiltyChaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-7606278924886203212018-10-26T09:26:10.212-04:002018-10-26T09:26:10.212-04:00Yasher koach. That's the vort for the kiddush ...Yasher koach. That's the vort for the kiddush tomorrow.Eliezer Eisenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-38885078624894548682017-11-05T01:37:14.549-04:002017-11-05T01:37:14.549-04:00this disposition of Avraham toward "a pardon ...this disposition of Avraham toward "a pardon for the guilty" at the expense of the victim* finds full expression at Yeshayahu 53:6, when Israel prays** for the other even while victimized by that other, rather than issue the (Netziv's) cry-that-quickens din***<br /><br />*perhaps Hashem told Avraham 15:16 while he slept(?), so that the altruistic pioneer would not at once rebut: 'leave the Hebrews enslaved if need be, that the Amori should get an extension!'??<br /><br />**or remains silent, at 53:7 [though at 53:9 silence expresses integrity(Rashi), at 53:7 it seems else]<br /><br />***yet the vengefulness of Israel gets its own airtime too, in those varied contexts when gevurah erupts full-boreAlonzo Nakatomihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13218406401602847328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-79091154505875899452017-11-03T04:04:16.579-04:002017-11-03T04:04:16.579-04:00so is Avraham in effect shouting down the victims ...so is Avraham in effect shouting down the victims in Sdom lest they hasten destruction? a case of kindness to the cruel that is cruel to the kind? did he "daven"* from a ba'al chesed's compulsion, to the extent of forwardly challenging G-d with the figure of fifty, only to remember humility (dust, ashes) at forty-five?<br /><br />it seems G-d does not use the "override button" offhandedly**, arranging soon for Avraham to practice narrowly targeted, well-vetted prayer, as measured out on behalf of Avimelech (20:6-7, 17)<br /><br />*not tefilah as we have it, but prophetic dialogue with G-d<br /><br />**that is, He didn't touch it in this case, but pressed 'Open' the bay doors of fiery stone insteadAlonzo Nakatomihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13218406401602847328noreply@blogger.com