{"id":49827,"date":"2019-02-19T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=49827"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T08:26:11","slug":"its-no-good-without-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/its-no-good-without-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s No Good Without Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[652,466,436,573],"acf":{"old_id":"49827","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"159","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Doing the right and the good before God and the world","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding his recap of the laws and rules given by God, in Deuteronomy 6:18 Moses tell the Israelites \u00a0\u201cDo what is <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">right and good in the eyes of God.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d But back in Deuteronomy 4:5-6, Moses says \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">observe them carefully, for <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this is your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nations.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d So it seems we\u2019ve got two audiences for our actions: the eyes of God and the eyes of the world, and two ways of executing the laws: the right way and the good way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rashi interprets that the \u201cgood\u201d in \u201cright and good\u201d is Moses\u2019 reference to the compromise needed to properly execute God\u2019s commandments. It is not a matter of merely enacting the letter of the law, it needs to be for ultimate good as well. Rashi expounds on this in Bava Metzia 108a in which, in reference to a law about enforcing field borders, he says \u201cOne should not perform an action that is not right and good, even if he is legally entitled to do so.\u201d \u00a0In other words, common sense should prevail. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what of our actions in the eyes of the rest of the world? It\u2019s certainly not the first time that God has mentioned our impact on the world. In Genesis 12:3 God says <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cthrough you all the families of the earth will be blessed.\u201d And in Exodus 7:5 about the signs and wonders He was going to perform for the Israelites, God says they are so \u201cthe Egyptians will know that I am the Lord\u201d. In fact until today the Jewish people exhort the prophet <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaiah\u2019s transmission of God\u2019s promise to make us \u201ca light unto the nations\u201d (Isaiah 49:6). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God may judge us on both <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the right<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (the observance of laws and rules) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the good<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (the way in which we enact our observance), but because it\u2019s reasonable to assume that the rest of the nations do not know all the laws and rules under which the Jewish people operate, it is only in the way that we fulfill the commandments that we will be judged by the world. 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