silly response. Those are your words.
I didn’t really think that was your intention. But it could have been read into your words.
I was suggesting that we celebrate the fact that a person could reach such a high madraiga. Why don’t you complain to RSBY for killing poor innocents? ? Maybe he was chaiyiv misa for what he did? And, how do you know these were people working to support their families? perhaps they just wanted some extra cash ? We obviously do not know the exact meaning of this maasa ( although, of course he was told to stop or there would be no world left). But in my humble opinion it is brought down as a shvach of RSBY.
I humbly disagree. I think the story is both to the merit and detriment of RSBY.
To the merit, he got to spend those years learning with no interruptions. He was miraculously saved and supported for those years. All of those speak to the exceptional merit of RSBY.
However, it’s also true that during those years, he lost sense of the common man. The fact that he saw those who were hard at work supporting their families and putting bread on the table as deserving of death clearly shows that he lost sight of the plight of the common person who could not simply learn full-time and ignore their need for parnassah. He had to be ordered to return to the cave for another year until he was able to again comprehend the common man.
The Wolf