@Joseph, @HaKatan, @Ben Levi (note, I believe I’m adressing the same person)
For sake of this forum, lets agree to disagree on Levin. Each of our positions have been debated both in public and via email. and I do not want to hijack the thread into a debate about that man,
I would like to take you to town on your following statement
Also, the two incidents are not comparable.
In CT, an individual with his own free-will acted as he did, with the terrible results that followed.
In Sandy, on the other hand, Hashem, using His “forces of nature”, orchestrated a powerful show of destruction that caused billions of dollars in damage without any weapons.
So to try to understand CT, one has to first understand the parameters of bechira.
I dont understand your point. Are you saying that the people harmed by the hurricane were harmed by G-d and the people harmed by man weren’t harmed by G-d?
How does bechira factor into this?
Yes, He had the bechira to choose to TRY to do this horrible crime, but he, like everyone else, needed siyata d’shmaya, did he not?
Would you say the same thing about bechira had it been an arab extremist in a school in Israel? Do you say the same thing about Leiby Kletzky?