We are a smart people, because our souls are bound naturally, with G-ds wisdom.

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Once, on a cold winter snowy day, a business man in Russia in the early 1800s needed to make an express delivery.

He hired one of the local horse and chariot delivery services to take his package and deliver it as quickly as possible. The delivery man was an honest and reliable person, a price was agreed upon and the item was on its way.

The winters were brutal and not long into the trip the horse almost froze to death and just wouldn’t budge. The axle cracked and come what may, it took almost four times as long to get the item to its destination, and by that time it wasn’t needed.

The businessman plainly unhappy over this great loss of his opportunity, summoned the delivery fellow to a court of Jewish law. After hearing both sides, and based on the agreement that was made between the two fellows, the Court sided with the businessman against the delivery service.

Understandably upset and not willing to easily accept the decision, the delivery man asked to have a word with the Judges of the Jewish court. “I know why you decided against me, because the Torah was given in the wilderness at the beginning of the summer. Had the Torah been given in the middle of a cold Russian winter, the Law would be more sensitive to my circumstances.”

Another story before I get to my point.

Once, again in Russia, Rabbi YY Schneerson (1880-1950) and some of his students were sitting in a train car minding their own business while a heated conversation was going on between the locals. What is the most effective and successful way to rule a society? Some were talking about the merits of a socialist method; some were pitching a democracy. Some were promoting a totalitarian way, and some in support of a Republic.  Some said an autocracy and some said communism. One fellow, seeing a noticeable Jewish Rabbi says. “Hey you Jew, why don’t you chime in to the conversation.”

Rabbi YY Schneerson said. “All of you are making valid points. Since every system of governing and bringing order, is another organization invented and developed by the finite brain of man, it will have its benefits but will also have its deficiencies and short comings. The finite man cannot possibly consider all possibilities, and know the future.

On the other hand, there is only one way of governing, created in the mind of an infinite being, who knows all in the present and in the future, that includes all the positives of governance and none of the negatives or shortcomings of any man made system, and those are the rules as set in G-ds Torah.”

In OUR book of rules which serves as the foundation for the greatest religions in the world, and our justice system in the western democratic countries, there is an element of every type of authority. It is only, because it embraces so many different modes of authority, it is able to include the best of all, and any other comparative way of governing a society.

There is a King, and a High priest. A court of Law and an appeals court. There is a place for democracy and a place for socialism. Concern and responsibility for others, and the room to grown independently. The taxes were less than most people pay in most countries and a clear code for morals and ethics. The Torah offers purpose and meaning thousands of years before Plato and Aristotle came onto the scene.

Our Torah and its code of conduct is a philosophical and practical system, devised by Infinity itself and presented, not to one person in a cave, or a small group of several different and at times divergent people.

The Torah was presented, as recorded in the book itself, and as transmitted by hundreds and thousands of people from day one throughout the generations, to millions of people. The Torah is the oldest recorded comprehensive guide to life concerned and interested in improving every detail of a person’s existence.

Because the Torah is G-ds wisdom, it never needs any changing.

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai says. “There are three (indispensable) knots in the world, that are fundamentally and intrinsically tied and knotted with each other. G-d with (His) Torah, and the Torah with the Jewish People.”

We are a smart people, because our souls are bound naturally with G-ds wisdom. The more we study and absorb this wisdom and understanding, and the more we put that wisdom and its instructions into practice the happier and blessed we become.