<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Elliott Shevin</b> <<a href="mailto:eshevin@hotmail.com">eshevin@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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R. Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br><span class="q"><br><br></span>
Torah gives us rules of conduct for most human activity. If Torah is <br>
the blueprint for self-perfection, then following those rules is part of that. </div></blockquote><div><br>Lo ki ela the Torah gives 613 mitzvos and NOT ONE person in Israel can possibly do all l613<br>The Original Torah was NEVER meant for the indivdual,that is claer. If you want to say the Torah morphed in the time of the Mussar Movement, then by all means say THAT.
<br><br>In fact RYBS talks about two Brissos - natilnal and covenental<br>Tora is about lilmod ulelamed. W/o a talmid there is no rav.<br>etc.<br><br>Justt becaue people choose to THINK that the Torah is about prrefection of the indivdual does not mean it IS about perfection of the individual. Illustration:
<br>Shem vo'Ever were individuals. The Covenat went to Avrahm but he was an av hamon Goyim.<br><br> <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Adaraba. If you keep just weights, lend money for free, leave the ox <br>
unmuzzled when threshing--you're busy perfecting yourself, <br>
even if you're neither learning, meditating, or praying as you do.</div></blockquote><div><br>Elly <br></div><br><div><br>Lo ki Ela If you cheat your neibghobor you create a Dor hamabu scoeityl. The mitzva is about how to behave in a society so as NOT to have people cheating. The problem is homos not self-perfection per se. You can cheat yourself all day and who would know or care?
<br></div><br></div>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>Please Visit: <br><a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/
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