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Samsa · 12-07-2002, 10:18 PM

There is no death to the righteous.

Samsa · 12-07-2002, 10:22 PM

Whilst the Torah teaches peace and good-will to ones fellow man, it likewise teaches the necessity of standing up against evil deeds and even rebuking the evil-doer. Moreover, though all reverence and deference are due to one's teacher, yet in the matter of censurable conduct it becomes the pupil's duty to protest against it. Bad conduct is contaminating. One is apt to fall into the same error if one sees any evil act and does not lift up one's voice to protest against it.

Samsa · 12-07-2002, 10:22 PM

You are not permitted to select injunctions of the Torah which you consent to observe, and reject others for the observance of which you can find no reason. In accepting God's word one is bound to implicit obedience to it, the rich should ever bear in mind that his wealth may merely have been deposited with him to be a steward over it, or to test what use he will make of his possessions. Not less should the poor remember that his trials may have been sent as a test of his fortitude.

Samsa · 12-07-2002, 10:23 PM

"If you have taken a pledge from the poor," says God to the rich, "do not say he is your debtor and you are therefore justified in retaining his garment. Remember you are my debtor, your life is in my hand. I return you all your senses and all your faculties after your sleep every day."

Samsa · 12-07-2002, 10:25 PM

He who by usury and ill-gotten gain increaseth his substance, it sball be taken from him by him who pities the poor (Prov. xxviii.). When a non-Jew wants to borrow of you, you will perhaps say that since you are not permitted to take usury from your own compatriot you may take it from a nonJew. Be assured that such ill-gotten gain will be taken from you; probably by the authorities, to erect baths or other sanitary buildings for the poor or the stranger.

Samsa · 12-07-2002, 10:27 PM

Poor ignorant man, you want to find out God's ways; explain first the phenomenon of your own eye; it consists of white and black, and according to all reason the white should supply light, but in reality the little spot in the center of your eye is the lens to give you sight.

Samsa · 12-07-2002, 10:30 PM

Those who aim at greatness do not always get it. Moses fled from it, but it was forced upon him.

Samsa · 12-07-2002, 10:31 PM

God consulted the Torah when about to create man, but the Torah was dubious about calling man into existence, for since his days would be so short and his ways so perverted be would require much forbearance. God's reply was, " By thee (Torah) I declare myself as a God merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and in truth."

Samsa · 12-07-2002, 10:41 PM

Hope is held out here for man for everything. If he is in abject poverty, he may become rich; if he is sickly, it is not beyond the range of possibility for him to become robust; if he is captive, he may regain his liberty. Death is the only thing which man can not hope to escape. But let man take comfort in the thought that even so great a man as Moses, who spoke with God face to face, the head of all prophets, the greatest of men, did not escape death.

12-07-2002, 10:18 PM	#31
Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	<:O There is no death to the righteous.

12-07-2002, 10:22 PM	#32
Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	>:O Whilst the Torah teaches peace and good-will to ones fellow man, it likewise teaches the necessity of standing up against evil deeds and even rebuking the evil-doer. Moreover, though all reverence and deference are due to one's teacher, yet in the matter of censurable conduct it becomes the pupil's duty to protest against it. Bad conduct is contaminating. One is apt to fall into the same error if one sees any evil act and does not lift up one's voice to protest against it.

12-07-2002, 10:22 PM	#33
Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	>:O You are not permitted to select injunctions of the Torah which you consent to observe, and reject others for the observance of which you can find no reason. In accepting God's word one is bound to implicit obedience to it, the rich should ever bear in mind that his wealth may merely have been deposited with him to be a steward over it, or to test what use he will make of his possessions. Not less should the poor remember that his trials may have been sent as a test of his fortitude.

12-07-2002, 10:23 PM	#34
Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	>:O "If you have taken a pledge from the poor," says God to the rich, "do not say he is your debtor and you are therefore justified in retaining his garment. Remember you are my debtor, your life is in my hand. I return you all your senses and all your faculties after your sleep every day."

12-07-2002, 10:25 PM	#35
Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	roosevelt! >:O He who by usury and ill-gotten gain increaseth his substance, it sball be taken from him by him who pities the poor (Prov. xxviii.). When a non-Jew wants to borrow of you, you will perhaps say that since you are not permitted to take usury from your own compatriot you may take it from a nonJew. Be assured that such ill-gotten gain will be taken from you; probably by the authorities, to erect baths or other sanitary buildings for the poor or the stranger.

12-07-2002, 10:27 PM	#36
Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	>:O Poor ignorant man, you want to find out God's ways; explain first the phenomenon of your own eye; it consists of white and black, and according to all reason the white should supply light, but in reality the little spot in the center of your eye is the lens to give you sight.

12-07-2002, 10:30 PM	#37
Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	>:O Those who aim at greatness do not always get it. Moses fled from it, but it was forced upon him.

12-07-2002, 10:31 PM	#38
Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	>:( God consulted the Torah when about to create man, but the Torah was dubious about calling man into existence, for since his days would be so short and his ways so perverted be would require much forbearance. God's reply was, " By thee (Torah) I declare myself as a God merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and in truth."

12-07-2002, 10:41 PM	#39
Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	<:( Hope is held out here for man for everything. If he is in abject poverty, he may become rich; if he is sickly, it is not beyond the range of possibility for him to become robust; if he is captive, he may regain his liberty. Death is the only thing which man can not hope to escape. But let man take comfort in the thought that even so great a man as Moses, who spoke with God face to face, the head of all prophets, the greatest of men, did not escape death.