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The Mighty Shimshon/Samson : Haftorah Parasha Naso
muman613:
Shimshon sinned with his eyes, thus his eyes were gouged... But he ended up using this punishment for his merit... Here we learn a deep secret...
http://torah.org/learning/ravfrand/5771/metzora.html
--- Quote ---Now we can begin to understand how there can be a treasure in a punishment. Chaza"l tell us that when Shimshon [Samson] was in the house of the Plishtim [Philistines] and his two eyes were taken out, Samson prayed to G-d: "With the merit of the loss of one of my eyes, let me bring down the house upon the Plishtim; and with the merit of the loss of my other eye, let me have the merit to enter Olam Haba."
This is amazing. The Talmud tells us [Sotah 9b] that " Shimshon went after his eyes..." He sinned with his eyes and as a result of that, he lost his eyes. How then, does he com e and claim to have merit based on the loss of his eyes? Rav Bergman says, herein lies a great principle. If G-d gives a person a punishment and he responds to that punishment, then he turns the punishment into a merit. That is what suffering and punishment is all about. The purpose is to strengthen the relationship between G-d and man. If Shimshon responded and knew that he did Teshuva [repentance] for the sin that he did with his eyes, he could then come back to G-d and say "with the fact that I lost my eyes and I realized the lesson in that and am thereby turning it into a merit for myself, with that merit, grant me the ability to kill the Plishtim and get into Olam Haba."
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edu:
To avoid problems of lashon hara, I would like to better explain, what I said earlier in this thread about Charedi ideology.
It is not all Charedis that put a low value on having an army. Many Charedi Jews do value having an army. Some even go to the Charedi (Nachal Charedi) army units.
muman613:
--- Quote from: edu on June 01, 2012, 01:13:58 AM ---To avoid problems of lashon hara, I would like to better explain, what I said earlier in this thread about Charedi ideology.
It is not all Charedis that put a low value on having an army. Many Charedi Jews do value having an army. Some even go to the Charedi (Nachal Charedi) army units.
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Indeed, there was a great video on A7 which highlighted these Charedi soldiers.
mord:
Many yrs. ago i read an article about Shimshon from Rav Moshe Feinstein i'll have to look in my book cases in any event he said what Shimshon did should never be questioned.I found it although it far from complete http://revach.net/parshas-hashavua/quick-vort/Parshas-Vayechi-Rav-Moshe-Feinstein-Shevet-Dun-Shimshon-HaGibor-Should-Be-Judged-Like-Hashem/3249
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