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What’s Good About Mistakes?
A Taste of Text—Ki Tisa
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By Chana Weisberg
Chana Weisberg is the Director of Editorial Management at Chabad.org. She is the author of Tending the Garden: The Unique Gifts of the Jewish Woman and four other books, and lectures worldwide on issues relating to women, faith, relationships and the Jewish soul.
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Your comment on the relationship with your daughter is very insightful and helps me understand and put it into my everyday practice for the relationship with my loved ones.
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Thornhill, Ontario
The Jewish people had just heard the Ten Commandments, with G-d Himself warning them against idolatry and the resultant immorality it would bring to their entire society. And yet a small group (the "mixed multitude") were able to incite the others to rebel against this new set of morality and in the process kill anyone who opposed them, no matter how great he might be (and that was why Aaron realized he could not stop them, but only try to delay them).
So the issue really is a matter of how we view what happens next. No, I don't view it as a "punishment" from a merciless G-d who whips His young nation into obedience. I think of it more as a natural consequence, of the need to eradicate a fast spreading infectious disease or poison from their midst before allowing it to fester further and corrupt more of the nation.
For some more thoughts, see here: www.chabad.org/593951
Or here: www.chabad.org/168272
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