crazybrit, you posted:
“I am sure your post was supposed to say ‘Rabbi Miller Worded it like that'”
??? 🙂
Randomex, you asked:
“When calamity befalls the Jewish People, to what else might it be attributed?”
Hallavai that life & faith were that clear-cut. When calamity befalls the Jewish People we ought to say that Hashem has His own reasons which He need not explain to us. Like Devarim 29:28 says: “The secret things belong to Hashem…” Perhaps we should take David Hamelekh’s advice (Psalms 131): “Hashem, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me. Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; {N}
like a weaned child with his mother; my soul is with me like a weaned child.”
The Jerusalem Post quoted Rav Ephraim Stein, who was at the shul in Har Nof during the recent terrorist attack but who survived unscathed (physically at least), as saying:
Not everything has to have a reason that is comprehensible to such as we.