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Thought For The Week Is Being A Nice Guy A Mitzvah? At first glance, the detailed day-to-day
the verse (Shemot 23:1) “Do not bear a
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behaviour laws given in Parashat Mishpatim
false report” – a standard that would leave
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seem to contrast with the grandeur of the
most newspapers with many blank pages
10 Commandments in last week’s Parasha.
were they to adopt it! Similarly, we are
In fact they interrupt the account of Matan
told to help our enemy before our friend if
Torah. But Rabbi Yissocher Frand points out
we see them struggling with their donkey
that in order to properly accept the Torah
(Shemot 23:5) or, today, fixing a puncture –
we must first know how to be a mensch.
no other society in the world expects such
The mitzvot that direct our interaction
ethical altruism.
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to Denise & David Marsh on the loss of their mother, Mavis, to Danielle Woolf on the loss of her mother, Paulette, and to all those who have Yahrzeit this week as follows שבת
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with other people have to be part of our
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relationship with Hashem, according to the
In the final analysis the juxtaposition of
principle that ‘Derech Eretz Kadma LaTorah’
the mitzvot between man and man and
– good behaviour precedes adherence to
between man and G-d shows us that our
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the Torah.
standards of Derech Eretz (behaviour) are
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divinely mandated and not optional, manGilda Leinhardt
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It is also true that without the Torah, we
made rules.
would not know how to behave. Some of the mitzvot in Parashat Mishpatim go
Rabbi Joel Portnoy
beyond what might be considered social norms and mandate a level of ‘super morality’ that Bnei Yisrael are expected to strive towards. The laws of Lashon Hora – not gossiping or telling tales – are derived from
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