your 'job' .How dare we call it a job? imagine president obama--yes as much as you hate him--phones you tomorrow "i am sending over to your house two dignified men that are interested to serve in my cabinet, please interview them and decide which one is a better choice,i want only YOUR opinion " I can't imagine an idiot that should tell them when they appear at your door "$100 per hour for each of you" .or you tell your friends "i have a 'job' today".You are 'nuts' if you do either of them.
now god is telling us:when two of your brothers have a dispute or quarrel between them,you--one that knows the LAWS OF GOD-- go ahead and decide the right from the wrong.Abrahams virtue --the reason why god loves him so much:because he is always busy "doing justice" and commands his kids to do the same.iyov praises himself that he always did mishpat for any and everyone.
by the way:someone who 'does mishpat' automatically abides to all laws of mishpat,because it makes no sense to tell others to behave rightful while you don't.
Zion will be redeemed with mishpat.Seek the streets of jerusalem and see if there is one who does mishpat.
Right after matan torah we read mishpatim:god-given laws what is right and wrong between man and man.Now if you set up your own rules of 'justice' (man-made justice) then all the laws, lawmakers and abiding citizens are nothing but vice and sin and evil.Only the one god that created and creates the world has the right to set laws for men .If a lawmaker issues a law based on a god-given law that's perfectly fine. the idea is:don't pass a red light because it is a sin to god.
Forget about all those fancy terms "mankind" "society" ,All of them are just another form of paganism ,just a new name and cliche'--paraoh said he is a god, the liberal says 'mankind' is a god and you must serve it with great reverence.....(some say that animals are the god...........)
there is NO greater virtue than following mishpat --behaving according to mishpat and ensuring that others do the same.when you pay your employee on time,you are doing mishpat,when you are NOT taking a loan because you don't know if you can pay you are doing mishpat... when you sell yourself as a slave to repay a loan.......
u r D M....
3 thing god is asking from you: do mishpat. loving-kindness.walking(secretly) with god--always think about him, when you walk he is walking with you.
Moshe started his greatness with mishpat (remember the story with the bnos yisro.......and the 2 people fighting.......yes HE DID MIX IN IN OTHER PEOPLES BUSINESS)
The Mabul came because there was no mishpat .
please understand that chesed---also a great virtue that abraham practiced with utmost extreme--- is only secondary to mishpat. so if you must ''make money''
through trickery and deceivery (against another Yid) in order to do chesed, you are serving a different god, not the god of abraham and moshe.
Moshe was praised צדקת ד' עשה ומשפטיו עים ישראל in plain English:He told the poor tenant you didn't pay rent you must leave! you hired a worker you must pay him NOW (not when you get money from somebody that owes you... ) pay back your loan no matter if the business is 'bankrupt'
or not (as long that it is before Shmitta).No matter if you think that you can 'sue' or blame this guy for being 'mean or 'unethical' to you .Be sure that YOU are the RASHA . לווה רשע ולא ישלם Finally, don't tell me 'i don't have' ---if you are buying food for your wife & children--(let alone car computer furniture real estate etc. last but not least your coat yes you are reading well!)
He told the principal of the Yeshiva you hired this melamed you must pay him , if you can't ,make it CLEAR to him 'this ישיבה does not guarantee you any money,we just give some 'gifts' whenever we want'.
Moshe is still talking--all day long-- ''you can't afford tuition don't send your kid to ישיבה .You must teach him torah anyway,so why are you hiring the ישיבה and not paying שכר שימור או פיסוק טעמים !. you are not following my torah rather you are יבחר אלוהים חדשים ."
lets end with some verses prophesiesed 2500 years but it is true today as ever.EVERY SINGLE WORD PLEASE read slowly.It sounds like it was written by some ''outsider'' that is visiting the בתי דין of 2009.
Thy princes [are] apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
Therefore -- the affirmation of the Lord -- Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,
And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,
And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, `A city of righteousness -- a faithful city.'
Zion in judgment is redeemed, And her captivity in righteousness.
Do these verses sound familiar? you just read them a few hours ago...
אין תגובות:
הוסף רשומת תגובה