Friday, September 6, 2024

Fwd: Preventing Spiritual Casualties


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Date: Fri, Sep 6, 2024, 1:56 PM
Subject: Preventing Spiritual Casualties
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Parshat Shoftim / September 6, 2024 / Elul 3, 5784

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Dear Friend,


An insight by the Rebbe on parshat Shoftim, selected from our Daily Wisdom, by Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky.



Preventing Spiritual Casualties

If a slain person be found in the land that G-d, your

G-d, is giving you to possess, lying in the field, and

it is not known who slew him. (Deut. 21:1)


The purpose of the ritual the Torah prescribes in order to atone

for an unwitnessed, unsolved murder is to publicize it, so that it

will be easier to locate the murderer, and – more to the point – so

that everyone be made aware that the murder occurred. This way,

the people will be inspired to do whatever they can to ensure that

such a horror not occur again.


Allegorically, the "field" in which the victim is found is an area

outside of a settled, civilized city or town – i.e., a realm devoid of

spiritual consciousness. Those who are found in this realm are

vulnerable to the forces of blind materialism that seek to "murder"

them, i.e., to sap the spiritual life from them, leaving them deadened

to Divinity.


The Torah therefore teaches us that it is our responsibility to

ensure that such a calamity never occur. We do this by embracing

and welcoming our "stranded" brethren into our midst, and by

spreading Divine consciousness everywhere, transforming even

the most deserted "field" into G-d's true home.


--Daily Wisdom Volume 3


May G-d grant resounding victory and peace in the Holy Land.


Gut Shabbos,

Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman

Kehot Publication Society


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