The shiur this week has been dedicated once again by Dennis and Robin Berman of Potomac, Maryland in memory of Robin's parents, Sara bat Yehuda v Malka and Nachum ben Yisrael v Sara. May the Torah learning be in their zchut.
Revenge is retribution, taking payment for damage done.
In our shiur this week we will answer this question, demonstrating why the world waits anxiously for G-d's revenge. The Torah describes the obligation to exact revenge from a murderer, one whose act was intentional and premeditated. And do not flatter the land that you are in, for blood flatters the land, and the earth will not atone for the blood that was spilled in it, except with the blood of the murderer. Giving something undeserved, in order that the recipient, in turn, gives you something as well, is flattery. And so too, the earth flatters the wicked, giving produce and all their needs, which come forth from the earth, and also a place to live, and build themselves, although the wicked do not deserve any of this.