Trouble has a great fake name and I feel that he is making a valid point, naughty as it may be.
Once we step into unbridled imagination, drushos can be made any way we want - for good or ill. And what might start out seeming very frum and proper-sounding may end up messing another person up terribly. Our good intentions are not always the best guide to goodness or good drushos.
That having been said, I read something deeper in Trouble's comment - a thing I know may not be there at all - but
may be. So it might be worth recognizing and accepting without criticism:
He may have been burned by his failure to stay fully 'kosher' (that's why we are here, right?). He might be sensitive to drushos that people say to give us 'chizzuk' and convince us that "we can really finally stop if only we become good-enough yidden!". Naturally, many of us come here rather tired of yet another 'great vort', or another mussar schmooze. Those who really are at this stage need to be helped to give up and get real help, rather than 'pass the ammunition and keep fighting what is
for them a silly, ego-based and
losing fight that Hashem
can't possibly really want them to fight any more. Enough already!
It is possible that he is a battle-worn loser, as I was for about 20 years (before recovery) and is coming to terms with that nasty-sounding fact. It hurts, and chizzuk is just teasing. especially if it appears joyfully oblivious and fanciful. Everchange is not to blame an iota, of course! He may be one of those people for whom the chizzuk is precisely what he needs! But here on the forum we have a collision of many different vehicles, so to speak.
On the other hand, Trouble might be none of that at all. He may be perfectly fine (besides the schmutz he is here for getting help with, I assume) and just likes to be a bit cynical or critical of the playful drusha tendency some people have. Nothing horrible about that. Nu.
Many drushos have been made and Toiros taught that did not help the struggling Jew. I was given
very bad advice many times by very good rabbonim who I hold to be great yidden. They just didn't know better. They did not have a clue about addiction, I did not really clearly tell them all the dirty truth about what I was doing anyhow, and so all they did was confuse me further. My bad choice of following their advice (and I know that the choice was
my responsibility, not theirs) was motivated by my deep commitment to keep right on doing what I felt I needed to do (sex and lust), at the time. I made many drushos back then, and some were technically true! But all were worthless to me, and so, BS. Like brochos levatolos. They are all true sh'vachos of Hashem! But worthless, and so, better not said al pi Halocha.
With all that having been said, believe it or not, I have a drusho I would like to make on the two words that everchange mentioned, too! :laughing:And (I think) they are based on B'nei Y'soschar, and I like them:
It seems to me that the word Aveiro is a remez to the ikkar word of selichos:
vaya'avor. See the same sefer for that word and how he interprets that word in relation to kaporas avonos and why it keeps coming up in the Torah related to it. Mesilas Yeshorim says Hashem's mechila comes from His changing history to make it as though it never happened. This time-travel thing is what the word
vaya'avor is about. Now, we say brochos 'oiver la'asiyoson', right? "Oiver" means
before in time and place...correct? But have you seen the gemoras that are the mekor for that din? They quote pesukim that make it virtually impossible to tell if the word 'oiver' actually means 'in front of' (before) or 'after' the thing...check it out.
This is because the word 'oiver' -
ayin, veis, reish, is a time-travel word. It also relates to both time and place and itself means 'avar' - 'past tense'. Hey...I thought we make brochos
oiver la'asiyoson and there, oiver
means before! Why does the word itself then mean
past tense?!
Weird, no?
Also, Hashem refers to that word in His main posuk about kapora (the 13 middos) where it says 'vaya'avor al ponov vayikroh...[13 middos]' and he changes TIME - as Mesillas Yeshorim says kapora works - because in mechilas and kaporas avonos He interprets vaya'avor the way He chooses: either referring to the past or referring to the future, and changes history with kaporas avonos. He is the Master over Time (and the existence of what we relate to as Time is davka shayich to the oilam of Teshuva - Binah, correct?).
Have some fun with that one.
So that is one drusha that one might be able to say about the word 'aveira' referring to a sin.
And as far as a drusha on the word 'Mitzvah', all I have is a sweet thing the Mahara"l says: it is from the shoresh 'tzava' meaning 'connecting things' or deveikus (Chaza"l use that word [tzavsa] to mean
a tweezers, that pinches together). I like that drusha, for the Zohar calls the taryag mitzvos. "
taryag ittin (eitzos) to connect with Hashem." Mitzvos are connectors.
Are any of these drushos the Emes? I surely do not know. But they work for me and seem to have the ring of truth to me, personally. So I like them. And thanks for letting me share them here on your thread,
everchange!
And I hope the oilem goes easy on Trouble...we are all well-aware that we have been in more
real trouble than his naughty drusha was
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and I bet he is a really nice fellow.
- Dov