Q&A - Kissing the Mezuzah, Normality & Other Religions (Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb)

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Okay. Floor is open. Yeah. Fine. Does God want everybody to be fully observant or are there some people that are put into this world whose purpose it is to reach some level of observance but maybe not to go all the way? Oh, what a nice question. Does God want everyone to be fully observant or does God put the people into the world and intends for them to just go to a certain degree? Right. Well, one thing is for sure, he puts people in the world with very different capabilities. Now, if you just measure their capabilities against the desire of the Torah, you would say to expect everyone to fully comply with everything the Torah is just an impossibility. But that judgment would be factoring out divine assistance. So, you could have a situation in which the starting resources that a person has aren't sufficient to reach full compliance. But as the person makes an effort, he's given more and more resources to the extent that he will be able to fully comply. I think that that's a much more realistic picture. Um I'm just mentioning this, but it's a question of orientation. Um there seems to be perhaps a um contradiction between the idea that the Torah commands the person each commandment and therefore he's responsible to do everything. And on the other hand, you can't hold a person responsible and liable for more than he's able to do. Which would make it sound like

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