Reply To: Is anti-Zionism the sin of the spies?

29, my point was that they did not want to work. They wanted to have everything given to them on a silver platter. Rav Ashlag says in his introduction to “Torat Eser HaSefirot” that the concept of “bread of shame” also applies to what we receive from Hashem.

CY, Hashem allows many things to exist as He wants us to have free will. Social safety nets are supposed to be just that – temporary protections until a person gets on his his feet. Unfortunately, they have turned into a trapper’s net. The recipients think that this is a permanent way of life and pass on their “profession” to future generations and the givers think that this is tzedaka (there is a story about a person who did not tell anyone about an evyon he knew so that he could give him a mattana every Purim). Even worse, some have learned from the socialists that the way to control people is to keep them dependent.