Troubles in this world as punishment from God
Can the Rabbi please address the following post and reconcile it with the curses that you will come to? Thank you very much and have a good week.
I recently heard heretical statements attributing the terrible massacre in the Gaza Envelope to God as a response to Sabbath desecrations, etc. Today I even saw similar heretical statements in print.
These are words of blasphemy because a God who slaughters his sons and daughters as punishment for not listening to his voice is not worthy of our worship and esteem. However, since God (the one whose name some, like me, are accustomed to mentioning with the letter “K”, and not with the letter “E”) is indeed worthy of our worship and esteem, it is impossible for him to slaughter his own creations. Those who slaughtered are, of course, the abominations of Hamas. God was exactly where he always was; he allowed humans — the abominations of Hamas, in our case — to do whatever they pleased and to choose absolute evil.
The mobilization of Torah verses that supposedly call for the murder of Sabbath desecrators and the like is a distortion of Judaism as I know it. The Oral Torah has been rooting out, for more than 2000 years, through various and varied strategies, the religious violence that, God forbid, could arise from biblical verses without adhering to the words of the Oral Torah.
Whoever insists on ignoring the words of the sages and more than 2000 years of tradition, disbelieves in the Torah from heaven. Whoever attributes such abominations to God, disbelieves in God’s goodness. I thought these were simple things, but I discovered that what seemed to me to be understandable from the beginning is not necessarily so.
Enough of heresy.
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Does the rabbi disagree with the post?
What is the Rabbi's position on interpreting the troubles of my people, such as the Holocaust, as punishment for not keeping the Torah?
On the face of it, this ties in nicely with the curses in the parshas Ki Tibou
I have written more than once that God is not involved in the world. But the things about the sages that distort what is written in the Torah and that the Torah does not require committing wrongdoing are nonsense.
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