Gesher wrote on 16 Apr 2012 21:27:
...The doctor says "I noticed by the way that you were walking that you have a very rare disease that had you walked one more step you would have been paralyzed for life!" "I had to act swiftly and by breaking your legs I can reset them properly and you'll be able to walk properly for the rest of your life!"...In the same vein HKBH saw something in Klal Yisrael that was detrimental to our existence, maybe sinas achim maybe something else, G-d only knows (thats true :
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) but it needed to be fixed and mitzrayim was the only way to do it, and we came out perfected and ready to be molded into proper jews for eternity.
Gesher,
I disagree slightly with the nimshal. One could ask: Hashem had the ability to take away the rare disease in the first place, eliminating the necesity to 'break the legs', and 'heal them'. Now the mashal sounds like a doctor who implanted a rare disease in someone, waited until the last minute before this rare disease would paralyse, broke his legs so he could heal him...?
I prefer other explanations such as the one brought in Tanya, as follows:
There are some people will
all their lives have a struggle with the yetzer horo. Every waking hour, they will need to always make sure that every thought, word and action is according to Hashem's will, despite their inner (evil) inclination to constantly do otherwise. The Baal haTanya asks, what is the point of their constant war, when they never really succeed? The answer is, that this is the purpose of their creation, and it gives Hashem tremendous nachas, when this person is constantly fulfilling the mitzva of 'velo tasuru acharei levavchem veacharai eyneychem asher atem zonim acharayhem'. This also fulfils the purpose for creating the world, to make this lowly world into a dwelling place for Hashem (Midrash Tanchuma). Hashem made lowly people like us, addicted to lust, because He desires that
really lowly beings become a house for Him, where He can abide. When we succeed in our battle (even though the battle is constant. and success is not getting rid of our bad desires, but thinking speaking and acting only good) then we become a house for Hashem where He can live.
I have to think a little how that would relate to the mashal you quoted...