Reply To: The world is in a state of Geula- and don’t misunderstand us!

Coffee addict:

“Moshe rabbeinu worked on himself to make himself a tzaddik (maaseh where they brought someone to draw
him)”

As has been noted on this forum that Sefer is highly questionable. Rashi and medrash bring how from the beginning he wasn’t a typical person- ie born walking and taking, mohul etc. That being said there definitely were tzaddikim who did work on themselves until they reached the level of beinoni, and thereafter were granted the level of tzadik by Hashem (tzadik involves control over emotions, not practical expressions of thought speech and action and therefore cannot be attained simply through working on oneself. Hashem decides who He will grant this level of avoda)

“Additionally nowhere does it term benonim in Gemara like you, Benoni could be either someone that is “50/50” or someone that has at least one mitzvah”

If that definition of beinoni were the case (as the Alter Rebbe brings in Tanya) there is no way Rabba would mistake himself for a beinoni (even though he was a tzadik) as he never did any aveiros…

“We say Yosef is Yosef hatzadik because he was עומד
בנסוין”

Yes so he was a tzadik who stood up to his yetzer hara even in extremely difficult circumstances (beinoni), so thereafter Hashem granted him the level of tzadik (where he didn’t have to struggle anymore to fight doing bad, but fight the tolerance for bad. And he ended up a tzadik gamur as well where he completely evicted his yetzer hara and had no tolerance for it.)

“yet there are four people who didn’t sin and only died “because of the נחש”

Good point. Aveiros are different for tzaddikim than they are for us. For us its actually doing/ speaking / thinking something wrong halachically. For tzaddikim its not being in line with what Hashem would expect from then on their level. Ex: Dovid and Batsheva. For them its considered a chet – chet as in chisaron.

“And I highly doubt the בעל התניא thought he was a בינוני”

And? He was holding by the avoda of tzaddikim. He wrote the Tanya, also known as the Sefer shel beinonim, and also wrote a Sefer shel tzaddikim which unfortunately was burnt. Point being he could only write the Sefer if he was holding there…