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Volume 43: Number 57

Sat, 13 Sep 2025

• 1. Re: Are We to Humiliate Sinners as Mitzvah Tochacha? (Brent Kaufman)
• 2. wholeheartedness and recognition (Joel Rich)
• 3. Hashkafa RaMBaM (Rabbi Meir G. Rabi)

>
> >> the commandment is for us to admonish our fellow Jew, not to bring
> about his or her repentance


This is an important statement, but is it accurate? Is this splitting hairs
or is our mitzvah truly detached from the other guy's need to do teshuva?

Chaimbaruch Kaufman
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 My free translation

"Rabbi Yitzchak bar Marion said: The pasuk comes to teach that if a person
performs a mitzvah, he should do it with a whole heart. If Reuven had known
that HKBH would write about him Reuven heard and saved him from their
hands, he would have carried him on his shoulders to his father."


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I?m trying to understand in what way would the knowledge that one?s actions
are being recorded impact on the whole heartedness of their act (or VV)?
What does whole heartedness mean in this context? What is its relationship
to recognition?


Does this mean that these greats would have acted better had they known
their acts were being recorded?  What other explanations have you seen?



KVCT & Bsorot tovot

Joel Rich
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Some time back the following was posted
The Rambam writes in 3 places in the Perush Hamishnayos (Sanhedrin 10,3;
Sotah 3,3; Shavuos 4,1) and in the Sefer Hamitzvos lo taaseh 133 there is
no psak on hashkafa unless it relates to Halacha.
Here is a quote from one of the Rambam's (Sotah 3,3 the language is almost
the same in all of them)
*As I already wrote many times when there is a dispute between
the chachamim on a matter of faith that has no relevance to action we
don't say the hakacha is like ploni*

It seems the RaMBaM uses the word 'Hashkafa' not as we do i.e. he does not
mean some type of philosophical or life-value perspective.
It is best reflected in what he writes in Lav 133 -- he offers no opinion
[in this Halachic framework] on disputed matters that have no practical
difference.

He of course has plenty to say about Hashkafa as we commonly use the word
but all that is not part of the Halachic system.
He included much of these life-values in the Mishnah [Sanhedrin 10] which
was presented in Arabic, one assumes, for the ordinary people.
He also seems to close his main books in MTorah with general life-value
lessons, see end Shemitah VeYovel -- "Not only the tribe of Levi, but any
one of the inhabitants of the world whose spirit generously motivates him
and he understands with his wisdom to set himself aside and stand before
God to serve Him and minister to Him and to know God, proceeding justly as
God made him, removing from his neck the yoke of the many reckonings which
people seek, he is sanctified as holy of holies. God will be His portion
and heritage forever and will provide what is sufficient for him in this
world like He provides for the priests and the Levites. And thus David
declared [Psalms 16:5]: "God is the lot of my portion; You are my cup, You
support my lot."

Best,

Meir G. Rabi

0423 207 837
+61 423 207 837
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