Is it righteous or wicked?

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asked 6 years ago

We are all witnesses to great righteous people who were wrongfully convicted of various offenses.
I personally believe that there are righteous people who have the power of the Torah to achieve certain things, and to see things and influence reality in the sense of “a righteous person decrees and God fulfills.”
And I would be happy to know if it is naive to think that the righteous man might accept that he will be incriminated in order to sweeten the judgments upon the people of Israel?
It is written that there will be people who will argue about the Messiah – and today we see righteous people who, on the one hand, are argued about and accused of difficult things, and on the other hand, there are stories of miracles about them.
And in general, can I, the ordinary person, decide the issues of the righteous, or is it better for me not to get into it?

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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago

Unfortunately, I was ignored by this question. Miracle stories are usually baseless fabrications. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein once heard a story about a great rabbi and said to the narrator: If you had heard what was said about me when I was still alive, you would not have believed any story about someone who died. (And I have heard this story myself once.) Therefore, the fact that there are stories should not affect your position. The other claims raised here also seem to me to be inventions. Anything is possible, but I know of no indication that such things happen. The “righteous” who are accused, if they are found guilty (Motti Alon, Eliezer Berland, etc.) then they are probably not such great righteous.

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ק replied 6 years ago

Rabbi Aphrodite: The question reminded me a little of your reference to the Christian videos. How do you really interpret Isaiah 53 as a general statement about the people or a specific figure (even Jeremiah)?
And how does the rabbi understand the idea of the exchange that the righteous one(s) suffered to atone for others? It almost never appears in the Bible. But there it appears in an extreme and almost solitary way.

מיכי Staff replied 6 years ago

I don't deal with the Bible, because in my opinion it is almost impossible to learn anything from it, and its interpretation can be done in many ways, and in many cases there is no real way to decide what is correct.

רבינתן replied 6 years ago

Not long ago, I trolled a certain troll here (I now see that the messages have been deleted, as befits me) who had imposed a punishment on the Haredim in their relationship with the Saint of Berland, and I argued to him (what I heard from several of the aforementioned Saint's followers) that the rabbi certainly did everything in his power to correct the errors and that his opinion was profound, etc.