Someone very close to me told me to mind my
own business today. What does it mean to love someone? What does it mean to be
merciful? What does it mean to be cruel?
The Book Orchot Tzadikkim, or the ways of the
Tzaddikim (the Righteous Ones), is a book that breaks down the 20+ basic
characteristics of all Human Beings including love, hate, pride, cruelty,
mercy, happiness, joy, patience, silence, etc. This book was written over 300
years ago and still applies today. It brings sources from the entire Torah
including Chumash, Nevi’im, Gemara, Mishnah, and other sources like Tehillim
Mishlei, Kohelet, etc.
On the chapter of Achzariyut, Cruelty, in the end of the chapter the author (who did
not put his name for modesty reasons) writes that there is no one as cruel (to
the world) like those who do SINS. BUT MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Why should you
care or WHY can you tell others what to do? First of all, for anyone who learns
Torah (this implies the entire Jewish nation) they are commanded to inspire
others to continue in the path of Torah by forwarding what they learned in the
most beautiful and respectful way possible. Therefore, if I stand on the side
and see my friend walk to the corner of the street to buy drugs that WILL 100%
guaranteed harm his/her body and I do not say something because IT IS NOT NICE,
then I am technically letting him/her hurt themselves. What’s better: watching
someone get sick by smoking cigarettes or telling them something about it even though it means there will be an awkward connection between us?
Also on a spiritual level if I do not
forward the message of being Holy and just trying
to be on a pure level, not even succeeding, then I fail to accomplish my duty
as a Jew.
So Orchot Tzadikkim tells the reader just like
it says in Masechet Shabbat 32b and 33a, Whoever does not take out Ma’asrot of Challah (percentages of wheat
flour that is donated to the poor) brings to the world higher prices in Wine
and Oil by cursing the orchards of olive trees and the vines of all grapes. So
should I just stand around and watch people ultimately ruin the wine and oil
markets or do something about it? Mind your own business.
This has been said already on theCLD, but
let’s repeat it: In the book Yehoshua, the entire nation goes into Israel and
has to confront the enemy cities by attacking them just like Hashem commanded
(yes, we were commanded to go in cities and completely take entire families out
of their homes and towns). However, at the second city 36 people died. THIRTY
SIX PEOPLE from the nation that ran away from the strongest EMPIRE at the time
(Egypt) and caused the strongest army in the world at the time to be drowned in
the Red Sea, and caused thousands of first-borns to die, and caused darkness to
befall upon the world, and caused the Nile River to turn into blood, and caused
huge frogs and toads to take over an entire nation HAD THIRTY SIX PEOPLE DIE!
How is that possible? They cannot take control of a small city in Israel about
45 years after leaving Egypt. Did that much change after Yetziyat Mitzrayim?
No. What happened? A SINGLE JEW decided to go against G-d by taking from the
spoils of war. ONE JEW. Because one Jew listened to his Yetzer Hara, 36 people
died, and the Navi states this clearly that it was because of him. MIND YOUR
OWN BUSINESS.
I am sorry, I do not want to live a life of
emptiness and lying to myself by saying clubbing, drinking and smoking is the
right way to live until I bump into a pretty girl who my parents like and then
get married to her. I will not mind my own business. theCLD is based on the
truth. Even though it hurts, it is still the truth.
Its time for change. Its time for us to
realize TO GROW and GET CLOSER TO G-D is a POSITIVE THING. And it is THE
FULFILLMENT of life, and after a time of certain obstacles one DOES reach the
understanding that they gain SO MUCH by follopwing the Torah and what they thought
they sacrificed was really things that hurt them in the past, they just didn’t
see it (like touching the opposite sex and watching inappropriate videos
online).
It’s all up to you, you just need to be HONEST WITH YOURSELF,
because you are living for yourself anyway, not for anyone else. Right?
JUDAISM=THINK.
We were given a brain to challenge the world and come to the
conclusion that the Torah is the way of life. Why not just avoid the challenge
and start following it now?
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