We have recently been introduced to a new character in Kohelet, the Chacham. The Chacham comes in and sees everyone's problems, and unlike the Amal, he responds to all of them.
He tells the Nehene, who wants to spend all day doing what ever pleases him, that he is wasting his life. All day and All night he does anything he wants and he makes no progress in life. The Chacham know that's not how we are suppose to spend our time.
The Amal who has an obsession with perfection and thinking life is pointless if it isn't perfect and he will die, the Chacham teaches in a different method. He tries to explain that G-d made the world imperfect and that the Amal can work as much as he wants to make it perfect but the world is not suppose to be perfect. He also tells him to stop worrying about death because it's part of the world and the way G-d made it. It's a reality, it's not anything bad it's just the way G-d thought things should be
The Yeray Elokim needed to be put in him place, and that is what the Chacham does. Since he believes that we just should not sign ever the Chacham gives him a bit of a wake up call. He explains that everyone sins even you! We sin because we are human and humans sin.
So far I like the Chacham, he doesn't go to any extremes and he makes everything make sense. He is bringing reality to all the theories of the other characters and giving them and us a more clear view of the world.
I agree Eliana. I like how the Chacham is not taking all the points he makes to the extreme.
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