Sublime

You should always make every effort to search out whatever merit and goodness you can find within the Jewish people. Judge everyone in the scale of merit, even those who oppose you and treat you disrespectfully. If you do this you will never be troubled by opposition and arguments. When you seek out the merit of your fellow Jew, you make a precious

Reb avait tout cela à cette époque. Il était encore autre chose : il ne prenait jamais part à aucune discussion sur le futur État juif. En cela, il rejoignait Dov Lazarus. Pour Lazarus, toute politique était abstraction et il ne vivait que pour l’action.

Rambam teaches that acting according to the letter of the law is mishpat (justice), while improving one’s good qualities is known as tzedek (righteous).

through which he is best known to tradition: Moshe Rabbenu, the leader as teacher. Leadership is not a gift with which we are endowed at birth. It is something we acquire in the course of time, often after many setbacks, failures, and disappointments.