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Shoftim (Shabbat Sat. 26th August – 4th Ellul) Laibl's Weekly Parsha Video

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Channel: Spiritgrow · 2017 · Education

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Shoftim (Shabbat - Sat. 26th August – 4th Ellul) 

Whose Justice is True Justice? 

SUMMARY: 
Justice has lost its meaning because of world characterized by relativism and spoilt by the dashing of hopes and aspirations of institutions like the United Nations and others. Ultimately the natural justice system inbuilt into the universe is codified in manual the Divine creator provided us with. 


Notes:
•The second verse of our Parsha orders us to pursue justice under all circumstances – Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof. But what is justice? In a world of relativistic values one man’s justice is another’s injustice.
•One of the seven Noachide laws that determines a just society is to establish a justice system. That means that there is an universal and inherent innate understanding of what justice means. And we are indeed told in the Talmudic commentaries that even before the Torah was given, humanity established what became known as a universal convention of life’s behaviours – a natural justice system.
•Today the self destruction and implosion of grand aspiring institutions like the United Nations and others has created cynicism  and despair leading to anger and rage, resulting in disbelief in any justice system.
•Justice is not something that each generation reinvents. It is universal and permanent. The Torah embodies these two characteristics. But it requires humility and adherence to make it work. 
•Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof, means that we must commit to absolute values, absolute rights and wrongs, a natural justice that is recorded in the only manual that the inventor provided us with. To think we can best the original inventor is an expression of gross egotism and folly.

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