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A righteous man was abandoned.

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Hello Rabbi Michael,
How can we explain the verse, "I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor their descendants begging bread" when in reality we see and hear, to our regret, about people who appear to fear God and are righteous, yet are in need of gifts of flesh and blood, or die in their old age, and their descendants are in need of bread?
(I live in Bnei Brak and there the charity organizations distribute many charity leaflets about people like this, unfortunately..)
I thought to myself to excuse myself by saying that probably not everyone who seems righteous is truly so, but if so, it's hard to see what King David came to teach us with this, then we can always say that we know nothing, and from this point of view it would also seem better if he himself did not say this verse.
I would appreciate your response on this matter.

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Indeed, a very difficult verse. Perhaps it can be interpreted that King David is not trying to establish facts and convince us, but rather to declare a priori that this is the case: He is saying that even if you see someone abandoned, he is probably not righteous. And if you think he is righteous, you are probably wrong. He is saying that it is impossible for a righteous person to be abandoned, and that he really has not seen one. His argument is that if you have seen and are having difficulty, know that you cannot know. You have never really seen a person that you know is righteous and he is abandoned. So it is assumed that he is not righteous. He is not here to prove anything to us, but to teach that it is the guidance of God, the Holy One, that everything that happens to us is right. ———————————————————————————————————————- Asks: In my opinion, the above excuse is a bit difficult, because the Maharisha of the verse: "I was a youth, and now I am old" means that he is describing a reality that he witnessed in his life. I searched the internet for more on this, and found a cute and innovative excuse that interprets the word "I saw" like its interpretation in the Book of Esther: "For I was grieved and saw the loss of my homeland," which means to see and stand by, and so King David came to say that he never stood by when he saw a righteous person abandoned, and always cared for those who fear God and their descendants. Another excuse I heard from a friend is that perhaps this was the reality that King David saw in his life, but he doesn't mean to say that this is the reality for the world. Thank you very much anyway. ———————————————————————————————————————- Rabbi: beautiful.

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