{"id":1097,"date":"2014-09-20T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2014-10-03T15:30:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:30:43","slug":"%d7%a9%d7%91%d7%aa-date-25-elul-5774-92014-chagigah12-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"\u05e9\u05d1\u05ea Date: 25 Elul, 5774 (9\/20\/14) \u2013 Chagigah#12 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">BRIGHT LIGHT <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[12a middle] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Elazar<\/span>: G-d removed his blinding spiritual light from creation and saves it later to reward the righteous. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Chaim Freedlander (quoting R\u2019 Dessler)<\/span>: Hashem had to remove his obvious blinding presence from the world in order to give us the \u2018free choice\u2019 and the option to sin. If G-d\u2019s presence was ever-known to us, we would never be able in practice to sin (of course in theory the option always exists, but practically it would be impossible).<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">E\u2019s Lesson<\/span><\/strong>: We only have free will in this world for G-d to be able to reward us for choosing properly. We should never abuse our gift or pretend that G-d is not all knowing\/seeing. May we always \u2018see\u2019 G-d\u2019s brilliance in this world and help bring light back into the darkest of places.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRIGHT LIGHT [12a middle] R\u2019 Elazar: G-d removed his blinding spiritual light from creation and saves it later to reward the righteous. R\u2019 Chaim Freedlander (quoting R\u2019 Dessler): Hashem had to remove his obvious blinding presence from the world in order to give us the \u2018free choice\u2019 and the option &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-chagigah","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}