[Avodah] Mishpat and Tzadakah

[Yitzchok Levine]

Please apply what it says below to whatever situations you feel it is 
applicable. The commentary is made on a pasuk from this week's Parsha.

In the event that the jpeg file does not come through in your email, 
you can read it at 
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/mishpat_tzedakah.pdf

YL

[It reads (transliteration of "tzedaqah" and "mishpat" mine):
    The following is from the new translation of RSRH's commentary on
    the Chumash -- Bereishis 18:17-19.

    The rule is that first one must do mishpat and only then tzedaqah.
    Tzedaqah can never atone for a breach of mishpat. To steal or deal
    dishonestly with one hand while dispensing charity with the other
    hand from wealth acquired by theft or in some other dishonest fashion
    is nothing but an abomination to God.

-micha]