One can understand not favoring the rich and the powerful. And the way to achieve this is by accepting certain standards as immutable regardless of one’s preferences.īut something seems missing here. The judges must be fair - following the law, not personal sentiment. This includes the stranger, the outsider, and all members of society. Having a fair system of justice requires giving a fair hearing to both sides. This is a very important civil ethical principle in the Torah.
The ‘State of Palestine’ Is Just a Stepping Stone to the Destruction of Israelįor Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the creation of a “State of Palestine” in the. We need an external standard of morality. What does that mean, that justice is God’s? Isn’t justice our responsibility? But as humans, we usually get it wrong. Not to be frightened of other people, because justice is God’s”( Deuteronomy Chapter 1:16 & 17). Not to be biased in judgment or favor of the little person or the big one. This week he says, “I have commanded the judges of the people, that they should listen to you when there is disagreement, that they should judge justly between you and the stranger.
Yet despite Moses’ realization that human nature is fragile, he remains remarkably optimistic. As he gets to the end of the book, he says that he knows that many of them will abandon the Covenant. Moses is not sparing in his criticism of their repeated complaints and rebellions. It includes a complete re-statement and reformulation of the laws issued on Sinai, and also restates the struggles that Moses had, both with the people and with God. The Book of Devarim, the last book of the Torah, is dominated by the personality of Moses, even more than the previous three books. Moses Breaking the Tables of the Law (1659), by Rembrandt.
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