Was Lot a tzaddik? If he was, then wasn't he just as good when he left Avrohom?
ANSWER:
Lot was a great tzaddik even when he left of Avrohom, no question about it. You know that when Lot went to Sodom, and the malochim came to him and Lot welcomed them into his home, he was risking his life! He was a big tzaddik. Would you risk your life for hachnasas orchim? Lot did it! But you have to know even the greatest tzaddik, when he takes a step in the wrong direction, we don't care what he is, we look where he's headed too.
You know, there are a lot of people who are not frum, not religious, not observant, but they are on the way in. There are a lot of people that are observant but they are on the way out. And Hakadosh Baruch Hu is going to judge a man for the direction where his nose is pointing. Here is an Orthodox man with two long payos, with a kapoto. He looks like a real, genuine chossid, but his wife tells me that he's on the way out. Here is a young boy, doesn't know anything yet, he just put on a yarmulke, he walked in from the street, but his heart is turning towards Hashem; he's on the way in. Now if they would be matched together, he's a nobody, he doesn't know a thing! This man is knowledgeable, this man practices everything, this boy comes from a home where nothing is practiced, he barely keeps kashrus.
No. It depends in which direction you're headed, the man who's headed to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, that's the one who's going to be chosen. Everything depends on the direction where a man is headed.
Good Shabbos To All
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How do we reconcile this with basher hu sham? (Just so happens to be this weeks parsha!!!)
Posted: 10/31/2017 9:03:08 AM by:
Abe
the kavanah, is the same. do we punish a man for future actions, (that Heaven knows cause in Heaven theres no "time") obviously not because that is still his prerogative / bechira. Yishmael prays , thatput him on the way up. R Moshe Fienstien allows a nonpracticing jew to be part of a minyan, cause entry to shul is intent of t'chuvah
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