Halevi, when i say “bothered by” I’m using the yeshivishe expression. As in, “what’s bothering rashi?”. Meaning i thought i understood what prompted you to say whar you said. After your clarification i think i get what you were saying earlier.
Re, iyov – Iyov was a tzadik who we learn lessons from, not to mean that we follow all of his hava aminas. The fact that he may have been unsure or originally mistaken regarding a certain idea can be explained by the fact that he wasn’t even Jewish according to many shitos. The seforim say that yaakov avinu had “hava aminas” as well regarding hashgocha as being strictly from the top down, until he saw the malachim “olim veyordim bo”, olim first from this eorld, that our actions impact the celestial realms. That maskana is what we go by.
I think every generation of teachers says that they have the most disrespectful generation ever… And they’re all right! It just keeps getting worse and worse. My students say and do things that the worst of my classmates never would have dreamt of