To answer most of the posters who challenge me about ‘dchar ve’onesh; The gemoro itself does not have an easy naswer, why zaddikin sufferbvand resho’im prosper. “al achas vekama’ whe it comes to events of historical proportions. If it would be so simple, then why do the chacomim struggle themselves to clarify events? And the destruction of bays sheni, the persecutions in the middle ages, tach vetat, the recent Holocaust all fell mainly of frum jews,not the chilonim. How is that for s’char ve’onesh?
The fact is that it is not for us to give reasons for anything that happens- to learn from some- yes, but I am not sure that the lessons I would draw would be the ones other posters woudl draw.As far as Hakatan’s psoting, this is an old ‘machlokes’ and i will beg to differ from what he writes.