>>13276501Avodah Zara 4b, 5a
Rabbi GoyimSmasher6000: Muh ancestors so righteous that in the days of Moses they needed to do sin else they wouldn’t have had a claim to penitence.
Anon:
> my ancestors so righteous…Where do you derive that from?
GoyimSmasher6000:
“Who would give that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me, and keep all my commandments that it might be good for them and with their children forever.” (Deut. 5:25). It means Muh ancestors so righteous that they worshiped the Golden Calf so that G-d could prove to them that He could and would forgive them for anything.
Anon:
Isn’t Idol worship an exceptionally grave sin?
Rabbi GoyimSmasher6000:
Yeah, but G-d loves muh righteous ancestors so much that He forgave them anyway.
LatkeFucker:
>>Idol worship a sin
For if they had not sinned we would not have come into the world because, “I said: you are g-dlike beings, and all of you sons of the most high” (Psalms 82:6). This means our awesome ancestors would have become as the angels and could not have propagated offspring.
DreidelSpinner:
>G*d proves that He forgive us of anythingKing David had to sleep with Bathsheba for the same reason. He, like the people, was so righteous that he needed to show the people an example of how to sin and be forgiven.
ShekelHunter67:
>King David.This is correct because, “The saying of David, son of Yishai, and the saying of the man raised on high” (Sam. 23:1). King David did what he did so that he could lighten the yoke of repentance and also teach us the power of repentance through his own example.