Learning patience

Hi,

"One should learn [from Divine tolerance] how patient he must be. He should bear the wrongdoing of his friend, and the harms he has caused [even] to this extent [that people sin against Gd], even with the result of the wrongdoing of the sin committed against him still present before him. He should bear it until his friend corrects it, or it ceases to exist on its own."

(Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, Tomer Devorah 1:2)

גמר חתימה טובה,
Mordechai

Divine patience with humanity

Hi,

"Rav Yehudah said, citing Rav: When Gd wished to create Man, He created a group of ministering malachim and said, 'Do you wish for us to make Man in our image?' They said, 'Master of the Universe, what are his deeds?' He replied, 'Such and such.' They said, 'Master of the Universe, 'What is Man that You remember him, etc?' He extended His finger among them and burned them. The same happened with a second set. 

"The third set said before Him: Master of the Universe, what good did the first accomplish with what they said? The entire world is Yours, do whatever You want with Your world. When the generation of the Flood and the generation of the Dispersion came, whose acts were corrupt, they said before Gd: Master of the Universe, didn’t the earlier groups speak correctly before You? He responded: 'Until old age I am He, and until old age I will be patient, etc. (Yeshayah 46)'"

(Talmud, Sanhedrin 38b)

Have a great day,

Mordechai