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Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy
13:03
Here's how I am thinking about it: usually the loss of behirah is something associated with habituation to that which the baser side inclines towards,
in other words the more you do something contrary to rason Hashem the harder it becomes to do otherwise (with the extreme example of this being Pharoah's heart hardening).
The sadiq on the other hand is a master of behirah. He is someone that exerts profound control and self discipline and is therefore capable of making a fully informed choice, and will then consequently choose to align his actions with rason Hashem.
The will of the sadiq and the will of Hashem are (keveyakhol) united/merged. This usually then leads to acting full in consonance with din Torah.
Hashem however is not bound by din-Torah, His freedom is absolute, and insofar as a particular circumstances dictates a different approach than din-Torah, He is free to do so.
The sadiq then whose will is (keveyakhol) united/merged/aligned with God's will then may be compelled at times to act contrary to din-Torah, without having made a choice to do so.
 
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Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy
15:22
@MichoelR no clue if this actually holds water or if this is what was intended... but it was the only way I was able to make a semblance of sense of the idea to myself. Keep me posted if you come across anything elaborating
 
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MichoelR
MichoelR
17:31
Is the thing that's bothering you that this applies specifically to tzaddikim, not to everyone? IOW I would have guessed (one needs to see the Ramban's actual words!) that sometimes Hashem just makes people do what he needs done, period. "לב מלכים ביד ה'", and such.
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy
18:06
I think we consider behirah to be a pretty fundamental aspect of Torah/Judaism. So much so that the Rambam describes it as עקר גדול ועמוד התורה (H. Teshubha 5:3).
Accordingly when it is extraordinarily claimed that a person didn't have behirah a pretty strong case needs to be made in order to defend the assertion. I don't think we can simply accept such claims immediately and at face value.
If a particular exception is to be accepted then it must be probed in order to understand how and in what way it could be so.

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