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This is the best way of understanding the difference between <\/span>tzedek<\/em> <\/span>and <\/span>mishpat<\/em> <\/span>on the one hand, <\/span>chesed<\/em> <\/span>and <\/span>rahamim<\/em> <\/span>on the other. Tzedek<\/em> and mishpat<\/em> belong to morality. Chesed <\/em>and rahamim <\/em>belong to ethics. The former are about justice, the latter about loving attention, for which the simplest English term is <\/span>care<\/span><\/em>. Justice is and must be impersonal. \u2018You shall not recognise persons in judgement\u2019, says Deuteronomy (16: 19). The beauty of justice is that it belongs to a world of order constructed out of universal rules through which each of us stands equally before the law. <\/span><\/p>\n

Chesed<\/span><\/em>, by contrast, is intrinsically personal. We cannot care for the sick, bring comfort to the distressed or welcome a visitor impersonally. If we do so, it merely shows that we have not understood what these activities are. Justice demands disengagement (Adam Smith spoke of adopting the standpoint of an \u2018impartial spectator\u2019). <\/span>Chesed<\/em> <\/span>is an act of engagement. Justice is best administered without emotion. <\/span>Chesed<\/span><\/em> exists only in virtue of emotion, empathy and sympathy, feeling-with and feeling-for. We act with kindness because we know what it feels like to be in need of kindness. We comfort the mourners because we know what it is to mourn. <\/span>Chesed<\/em> <\/span>requires not detached rationality but emotional intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

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