health: “kol haposel bemumo posel’ – be careful about your gratuitous insults to me- they only reflect upon yourself!
That said- I am sure that the editors of Artscroll will be very happy to see that they are considered “Posek acharon”- the authoritative interpretation on everything. I am old-fashioned and I learn torah from the original.The original gemoro does not deal with punishments at all, but with the way HKBH leads the world,as is clear from ther pesukim that the gemoro mentions. Please also look at a few lines earlier in the same gemoro:”Ein od milvado” and look at the MaHarsho and his explanation.I would also suggest that you daven carefully tomorrow morning and when you say “jehi chevod” (right after “Boruch SheOmar”) slow down when yoy say the pesukim “Rabas machsovos belev ish veatsas hashem hih tokum” and “atzas hashem leolom taamod,machesovos libo lwdor vedor”.Just ponder those for a few seconds and then tell me what they mean.