{"id":43364,"date":"2018-11-04T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=43364"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:52:29","slug":"justice-and-mercy-compassion-and-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/justice-and-mercy-compassion-and-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice And Mercy, Compassion And Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[476,459,391,547,400],"acf":{"old_id":"43364","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"83","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The more we believe that God punishes the guilty, the more forgiving we become","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the height of the drama of the Golden Calf a vivid and enigmatic scene takes place. Moses has secured forgiveness for the people. But now, on Mount Sinai yet again, he does more. He asks God to be with the people. He asks Him to \u201cteach me Your ways,\u201d and \u201cshow me Your glory\u201d (Ex. 33:13, 18). God replies: \u201cI will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence \u2026 I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.\u201d But, He said, \u201cyou cannot see My face, for no one may see Me and live\u201d (Ex. 33:20).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God then places Moses in a cleft in the rock face, telling him he will be able to \u201csee My back\u201d but not His face, and Moses hears God say the \u201cthirteen attributes of God\u2019s compassion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sages understood this episode as the moment in which God taught Moses, and through him future generations, how to pray when atoning for sin. Moses himself used these words with slight variations during the next crisis, that of the spies. Eventually they became the basis of the special prayers known as selichot, prayers of penitence. It was as if God were binding himself to forgive the penitent in each generation by this self-definition. God is compassionate and lives in love and forgiveness. This is an essential element of Jewish faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there is a caveat. God adds: \u201cYet he does not leave the guilty unpunished.\u201d There is a further clause about visiting the sins of the parents on the children which demands separate attention and is not our subject here. The caveat tells us that there is forgiveness but also punishment. There is compassion but also justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the very moment He is declaring his compassion, grace and forgiveness, God insists that He does not leave the guilty unpunished. A world without Divine justice would be one where there is more resentment, punishment and crime, and less public-spiritedness and forgiveness, even among religious believers. The more we believe that God punishes the guilty, the more forgiving we become. The less we believe that God punishes the guilty, the more resentful and punitive we become. This is a totally counterintuitive truth, yet one that finally allows us to see the profound wisdom of the Torah in helping us create a humane and compassionate society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can there be Compassion without Justice?, Covenant &amp; Conversation, Ki Tissa (5775)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":73253,"id":73253,"title":"ez6-justice","filename":"ez6-justice.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez6-justice.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/joy-and-pain-the-joy-of-pain\/ez6-justice\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez6-justice","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":73252,"date":"2020-04-13 07:31:18","modified":"2023-09-15 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