אמר אביי וחד מינייהו עדיף כתרי מינן אמר רבא וחד מינן כי סליק להתם עדיף כתרי מינייהו דהא רבי ירמיה דכי הוה הכא לא הוה ידע מאי קאמרי רבנן כי סליק להתם קרי לן בבלאי טפשאי
the shita explains that the natural ability of the Israeli born are superior, but the men of Bavel work harder and train their minds more, so therefor the israeli's are better off, but if a bavel man goes to israel he is now superior because all those years where his natural ability was less caused him to sharpen his mind, so when he has his sharpened mind plus natural abilities of א"י he now becomes superior.
the same can be said of galus, as the famous mahal goes, a blind man has to make up for his blindness by getting acquainted with objects thru other senses, so in a sense, the blind man can know the objects more intimately.
i often feel this way about the "kids at risk" those who do come back (probably most) have thru their tribulation's gained a deeper sense of their connection to G-D that others might not have. and in doing so they forced a host of others around them to think about issues they never before did. PERHAPS what the papers see as the worse things happening to the jewish people has also a bright side to it. WHILE no one wants ח"ו to be in that position, still in a global sense the whole concept of galus is just that. This idea is very deep and i think is discussed in the deeper sources. just wanted to share that you can learn this from our gemara. it is the source for the avrohom fried song .... i asked the wise, they tell me that galus is a blessing in disguise... just don't ask me to sing...
No comments:
Post a Comment