[Avodah] Religion and Falsifiability

[Elliott Shevin]

Richard Wolpoe wrote:
> And I can tell you ma'asim where rich people are told NOT to perfect> themselves but to be ba'alei tzedakkah instead in order to support the poor> of the community....
> Certainly we all work on middos to a degree but self-perfection is not for the 
> masses. Most of us have jobs to do first....
 
It depends on what you'd call "self-perfection." To me, that doesn't mean 
abandoning the ways of the world. Rather, when the "rich people" and 
those of us who "have jobs to do first" are indeed perfecting themselves 
if they go about these pursuits in a manner faithful to Torah.
 
Hashem didn't give us mitzvos about how to farm, how to conduct commerce, 
how to weave, and so on, in the expectation that the perfect individual does 
none of these things.
 
Elly
 
 
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