[Avodah] MISHPATIM TRANSFORM HUMAN CONTACTS excerpted from an article by Rabbi Noson Weisz

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:18:48PM -0500, Richard Wolberg wrote to
Avodah:
: (The following is a great vort and also a great reason for Avodah:)
...
: Theoretically, in a properly arranged Jewish world, instead of  
: discussing sports or the weather, or playing Jewish geography, we Jews  
: would debate concepts in Mishpatim. Instead of having to conduct  
: boring conversations, we would be in the enviable position of being  
: able to engage in heated discussions about deep ideas affecting the  
: human character with relative strangers (and email contacts). Instead  
: of gossip, the air would be filled with the sounds of heated debate  
: over basic human issues. If we are fortunate enough, perhaps someday,  
: most Jews will be in a position to resurrect that much-ridiculed  
: stereotype of the Talmudic scholar.

Ofren I think of the fun I have following conversations and playing
with ideas on Avodah and think that I am touching peshat in the pasuq
"lulei soresekha sha'ashuai".

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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