rationalfrummie, ur right, but i wasn’t trying to play Gd and neither was the Rabbi. I can’t say for sure that’s how it works, it’s just that we are supposed to learn a lesson out of every situation, and if this is what we are supposed to take a lesson from, Hashem’s gonna keep bringing it till we learn a lesson…also, i wasn’t saying that the ppl who get cancer are the ones who need to work on themselves. what the rabbi said is that we are all, on a communal level, causing those ppl to suffer, we are killing them. cuz if we were so good, Hashem wouldn’t have to send us horrifying reminders to get us back on track.
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