בס׳ד

"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



15 May 2012

Individual acts

An article in the New York Times published this week quotes "the Rev. Jim Wallis, another religious adviser to Mr. Obama and the president and chief executive of Sojourners, a left-leaning evangelical organization."

This evening I came across an interesting article by Rabbi Aryeh Spero concerning the statemnets made by the reverend about the redistribution of wealth.

"The Bible calls for acts of charity from the individual, for in being direct and personal, charity has the ability to elevate and ennoble the giver and provider. The direct act of giving changes the person and involves and partners him with God. Unlike Marxism, the Bible emphasizes the individual, not the state, the personal and not the “masses.” Those who receive charity are taught the virtue of gratitude. When given everything by the state, however, through redistribution of wealth, recipients are taught not gratitude but a sense of entitlement."
Read full article: http://www.caucusforamerica.com/opinion.art.php?pID=446

Finally, I am dedicating this week's posts to the six constant mitzvot. Below is Rabbi Noach Weinberg explaining the third mitzvah.

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