Reply To: Schar in proportion to potential

Zev7: Firstly, you shouldn’t address your complaint to me. Address it Rabbeinu Yoinah. This isn’t my chiddush.

Secondly, “understanding Torah better” means that the quality of his Talmud Torah was better. His mitzvah was a better mitzvah. Are you denying any advantage of Torah BeIyun?!

Thirdly, you have to be able to differentiate between your “neshama” and your emotions. Most things you “feel” are not from your neshama at all.

Fourthly, what has “fair” got to do with anything? Life isn’t a competition between all of us, and whoever gets furthest wins. Life is about doing your best, and that is what you will be judged upon. Which part of this is unfair – that one person was given different opportunities to another? Whether this Rabbeinu Yonah is true or not won’t change the fact that HKB”H gives different people different abilities. We are certainly not all meant to be Moishe Rabbeinu.