Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Din and Rachamim Recap, or How Zaqui can Say what I mean concisely

Since I started thinking about the previous post because of Zaqui, ( May the Merciful One protect and establish him), I decided to send it to him. The following is his clarification of my point:

Midat HaDin and Midat HaRachamim are two levels of how nature interecats with man. Midat HaDin is the system of natural laws, and Midat HaRachamim is the system of laws that apply to certain individuals who are more in line with reality. Both midot are part of nature its just that Chachamim benefit more from both aspects whereas normal people only experience/benefit from one.In Noach's case, since the world became corrupted, it had to be destroyed according to natural law (Midat HaDin) but since Noach was a tzadik and lived in line with reality he was subject to another form of law which is why only he and his family was saved. So when the mefarshim point out an exmaple of Hashem's Midat HaRachamim it just means that the certain individuasl benefited from the second sub-system of Hashem's law.

2 comments:

Yehuda said...

I had no idea that you had a blog. Your stuff looks great. It's nice to read your work again. How many years has it been since you wrote your great treatises on Sefer M'lakhim?

Ya'akob ibn Avi Mori said...

Rav Yehuda,
Your compliments mean a lot to me, thank you. It has been around 6 or 7 years, long time. How are Nemoi and Rivi?
Jake