Sublime

CALLED “THE CORE and kernel of Islam” by Joseph Schacht, the Shariah was developed by the Ulama as the basis for the judgment of all actions in Islam as good or bad, to be rewarded or punished. More specifically, the Shariah recognizes five categories of behavior: 1) actions that are obligatory, in that their performance is rewarded and their omiss

Jewish law protects possession, but it distinguishes it from ownership. All things ultimately belong to God and therefore what I have, I hold in trust.

its nature, hesed (generous giving) reproduces itself; hesed begets hesed. An act of hesed is, as Rabbi Yitzhak Hutner (1906–1980) writes, “the planting of a seed that cannot but bring forth fruit similar to itself.” When someone performs an act of hesed for us, “a seed of hesed is planted in our world,” and when both we and the world function “hea

in an ideal world, halakha is meant to be uncodified, like the rules of grammar, precisely so that its practice remain fluid much the way a native language is spoken. In the real world, codification is often necessary to prevent too much drift during times when collective intuition is compromised;

In other words, by tithing over and over again, a person progressively internalizes deeper trust in Hashem.

Sometimes Hashem withholds our needs. This could be for one of two reasons: first, either we didn't sufficiently pray for them; or second, we covet something that's not ours.

Deuteronomy: