By Tzvi Freeman
 | You're right, it shouldn't work that way. The world was not designed this way. The plain truth is: They've hacked the system
19 Comments Posted
If:
1) The knowledge of good and evil is so deadly because it can be anything one wants it to be; and
2) good saves life while evil destroys it; and
3) the laws governing the physical universe provide the prime directive governing any moral system;
then what differentiates a good driver from a bad one?
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The Creator of good and evil defines a good driver from a bad one. The concepts of good and evil are also creations.
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Your work is very good encoraging.Thanks for your teaching and lessons.G-D Bless you
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In many of these articles,such as "Why do good things happen to rotton people," people question good/evil, or whether life is fair/unfair. Yet, some people in todays time (21st Century) may not even have the level of depth or profound wisdom needed to even comprehend the complications and simplicities behind the concepts of good/evil. unfortunately some people egotistically try to reason with good/evil through a facade of judgements, irrationality or injustices. Whatever metaphors are used to explain or reason with the causes/effects of good/evil , people in todays time may not have the ability to fully grasp or explain the intense logic behind the notion of good/evil. Whether one is deserving of good or not, is a question that entails high-levels of wisdom, altruisim, great logic and deep-rooted instincts, that unfortunately, many people do not have today.
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Not being a gamer may explain why I found your "answer" to be no answer at all. I don't think there is an answer that we can-now, at least-grasp. Doesn't mean we shouldn't ask but the answers should be more than the contrivances we've-you, the Ari, et al.-come up with. Out of desperation we have concocted over sweet confections made with sugar substitutes.
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This is a very beautiful answer. Thank you very much Rabby Freeman.
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"To be revolted with the way things are and be driven to change it.
As you can see, the act of repairing the game itself becomes the new game. A much deeper game. Requiring a much deeper set of skills."
We have all heard of wolves in sheeps clothing. However a sheep in wolves clothing can be far more effective at testing the systemic weakness of the code.
"Occasionally, there are even cases where the darkness itself is transformed into light. Sort of like enhancing the game thanks to the hackers' discoveries. To do this, however, is extremely risky business. Often it is accomplished by one of those hackers who has handed him/herself in and now works for the good side."
Sometimes the code is so corrupt that a light source will have to enter into the darkest realms to work. Only G-d can protect the light source from becomming corrupt itself. Thankfully.
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Dear Rabbi:
I was impressed with your knowledge on how Hackers are rewarded from other people's ideas.
What hurts me is why the world always pities the criminal and not the victim. There are people who will mourn the Hiroshima-Nagasaki victims, yet these same people will not mourn the Six Million lost in the Holocaust. They will protest America's involvement. Yet they will say, "As for the Six Million Jews. That was in the past. Are we going to punish Nazis who are in their nineties?"
Why is this?
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For the viewers' benefit, note the line in Tehillim 92:8 "...though the wicked sprout like grass, though all evildoers blossom, it is only that they may be destroyed forever." What does that mean, they blossom so they may be destroyed forever? Does that make any sense? It means that they (the wicked) have to be allowed to sin and perpetrate their evil because if they were continually corrected (zapped by a cattle prod let's say) they would not be judged for what was really in their heart, because they would never get to express that. For the rest of us, that's a test, to trust in G-d and do His will understanding that this is a fallen world and that we have to pass the test in this world to enjoy boundless joy and blessings in the world to come.
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Why not work at being less judgemental of others.
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Wonderful article and analysis by the Rabbi as usual.
If one has true faith in Hashem and our universe, then why can't we look at the question itself and ask this:
Who said these things are neccessarily "good things". There is more to faith than material things we perceive others having. Hmmmm.... I belive there is a commandment that says one shall not covet what his neighbor has. (please correct my wording).
Second part of the questions presumes these people are "bad". Was then Adam evil or "bad"? If Hashem does not see it that way, why do we?
Sure there are truly evil souls out there as the Rabbi explains as background, foreground. If we have faith in the Torah and Hashem, we have to believe this "evil" can and will be fought and defeated. History has shown this if anything.
So don't dwell on questions like this too long, let's move one and live our lives to his plan.
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You declared:
If someone goes against the rules of the game and hurts someone else, he should be immediately zapped out of existence.
What a thoughtless statement, zapping people who dont obey the rules!
I feel that the Creator-image used child psychology for its infant self. Thou shalt not means not too much more to an innocent child than a dare- so the Creator helped us to create sciences, sociology, and even the malleabiity of Democracy.
Consider the character of Al Capone, who was treated too strictly for only bootlegging alcohol. A too-strict law of the day caused extreme violence later.
Today, alcohol is better studied, and a valuable legal commodity, due to the thought that has gone into Democratic law. If Al Capone had been simply executed over alcohol, to rid the world of "bad" for helpless weiners, think of the dents and mars upon the souls of the executors, today.
G-ds religions exist to give one perspective and wisdom, indeed.
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tell your friend to count his blessings instead of sheep............
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People of Japan send lit lanterns to sea for their dead of Hiroshima, and consider their mourning period to be important to them more so than the European Holocaust, because it happened to their land and people, just as Nazi Germany caused years of sorrow for open minded people and all of the Jewry.
I must admit that I have felt too much media emphasis helped only one body of faith to cope, when there have been wars in Vietnam, Korea, Somalia, and Croatia, all of these causing sinful deaths and miseries untold.
All of these people have a right to talk of their own suffering, and to mourn their own holy people or babies.
Since their suffering is all the more current, they will say- WW2 is over- please drop it.
Here, while I agree with a day of mourning over WW2, I also feel that diplomatic relationships over others' difficulties are viable and more correct. Bottom line: give equal time to our mixed bag of kids in school, to all who have been offended by earth trauma of any kind.
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i guess they call it the slime of bureaucracy.....................
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Even animals in PRAM seem to be doing pretty lousy things to each other. This is what hangs me up.
Why are there even lizards snakes dinosaurs earthquakes etc... etc... etc...
This doesn't seem like the design work of an almighty flawless and infallible creator.
However it is still insanely powerful and amazing so maybe it is.
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If I had a dime for every time a A catholic priest or a rabbi was asked why bad things happen to good people Id be a millionaire. When I saw Maya, an Israeli working at the mall last year selling hand cream. She said how are you doing. I said I have cancer I am having my second surgery in a few weeks. She said In Hebrew tradition it means God is testing you. I asked her if She knew about Job in hebrew scripture and she said no. I proceeded to tell her about the story of Job. Its not necessarily that bad people have hacked the system. Its that they have taken advantage of other people and are quickly digging themselves a grave to shoel but it does seem at times, God is testing our patience. The world can be a very lonely place for a Good CHristian or good jew because often times morality is mocked in the work place or our communities but we have to turn to God with faith that he will reward our good actions because he did so for the people of the torah and the bible.
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"with faith that he will reward our good actions"
As long as we are sure that our actions are actually doing good?
During the days of the Inquisition, moral citizens thought they were doing the right thing to burn whomsoever they believed to be witches. I have relatives who believe it is immoral to talk about religion at all. God loves them even if they don't know it.
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The comparison to squirrels is cute, and yes animals do play like this - but I don't think that that is what people who rob and violate are doing. I am upset by this description, it is too endearing.
Everybody like to take little risks and show off at times but that is not the same as having no integrity, ethics, etc. etc.
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