{"id":98564,"date":"2022-11-20T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98564"},"modified":"2022-11-20T02:13:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T00:13:14","slug":"prohibiting-the-permitted-and-permitting-the-prohibited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/prohibiting-the-permitted-and-permitting-the-prohibited\/","title":{"rendered":"Prohibiting the Permitted and Permitting the Prohibited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prohibiting the Permitted and Permitting the Prohibited<\/strong><\/p>\n

I once read an interesting article in a publication. The Supreme Court ruled that a judge and an attorney may not pray together in the same minyan. This might cause them to become close and lead to a perversion of justice.<\/p>\n

At first glance, this law seemed just. It is normal that people who pray together for a long period of time become close friends. But, on second thought, I realized that this law was rotten from the start. Anyone who comes to the Beit Hakeneset for tefillah, judge or lawyer, stands in subjection before Hashem. How could one come to pervert justice after completely submitting himself to his Maker?<\/p>\n

On the contrary, tefillah with a minyan brings a person closer to Hashem. This closeness precludes perversion of justice.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, we are commanded in the Torah (Devarim<\/em> 16:20), \u201cRighteousness, righteousness shall you pursue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jewish judge is certainly bound to maintain proper judgment and be true to his country. But more than that, he is warned by the Torah, time and again, against distorting judgment. He surely tries to execute justice in the most fitting way possible. There is simply no truth to the fallacy that praying together will cause a distortion of judgment.<\/p>\n

I once heard of an awful case which occurred in a hospital. A father of a sick child and a mother of another child sat in one room, each by the bed of his child. As the children were there for a length of time, the man and woman got to know each other, a little too well. They ended up falling into sin.<\/p>\n

When I heard this story, I was terribly upset. How could parents, watching their children succumb to serious illness, succumb to the suggestions of the Yetzer Hara<\/em>? At a time when family unity is of paramount importance, they wantonly ripped apart the entire fabric of their marriage.<\/p>\n

The world is in a terrible condition. Instead of strict rules regarding separation of the genders in public areas, intermingling is allowed and even encouraged, to demonstrate equality and women\u2019s liberation.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t this a far cry from the problem of a judge and a lawyer praying in the same minyan? This type of mingling seems to disturb them, whereas truly inappropriate mingling finds favor in their eyes.<\/p>\n

This perversion of justice points to a lack of yirat Shamayim. Only this can cause a person to elevate the insignificant while reducing what is truly important. The understanding that prayer with a minyan increases one\u2019s yirat Shamayim and fear of sin is lost on them. And their perversion of justice stems from this very lack of yirat Shamayim<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prohibiting the Permitted and Permitting the Prohibited I once read an interesting article in a publication. The Supreme Court ruled that a judge and an attorney may not pray together in the same minyan. This might cause them to become close and lead to a perversion of justice. At first glance, this law seemed just. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fear-of-heaven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}