Divorce her.. Knowledge & Love..supporting a crook..just sitting there

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Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon, Maimonides – Rambam, 1135-1204 is recognized as one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of all time. Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson said in 1991,one of the ways to prepare ourselves and the world for the imminent coming of Moshiach, was to study and practice the works of the Rambam.

Moshiach is the best life, anyone can hope for. The rules and laws,Maimonides sets forth is a guide for every human being.

The following words are exclusively from the actual laws written by the Rambam – Maimonides and some practical lessons we can draw from them in our daily lives.

Nothing less. Divorce her, if you hate her.

 

The following ruling applies when a man rebels against his wife and says, "I will support her and provide her with her subsistence, but I will not be intimate with her, because she has become loathsome to me." He must increase her ketubah-marriage contract, by the equivalent of 36 barleycorns worth of pure silver each week. They may remain married without engaging in relations for as long as she desires.

If she does not desire to remain married, she may ask the court to compel him to grant her a divorce.

…..the prerogative is hers whether to remain married or whether he must divorce her and pay her the money due her by virtue of her ketubah-marriage contract..

Although her ketubah-marriage contract continues to increase, her husband also transgresses a negative commandment, for [Exodus 21:10] states: "Do not deprive her of her... conjugal rights." If the husband hates her, let him divorce her; causing her anguish, however, is forbidden.

Just sitting there and doing nothing,
is in itself something positive.

 

A person who has to enter a synagogue to call a child or his friend should enter and read a portion of the written law or relate a teaching of the oral law and then call his friend, so that he will not have entered a synagogue for his personal reasons alone.

If he does not know how to study, he should ask one of the children to tell him the verse he is studying or, at the very least, wait a while in the synagogue and then leave, since spending time in the synagogue (in itself) is one of the aspects of the good deed-mitzvah, as implied by [Psalms 84:5]:

"Happy are those who dwell in Your house."

The more knowledge the more love…. (to know is to love?)

 

It is a well-known and clear matter that the love of God will not become attached within a person's heart until he becomes obsessed with it at all times ……... This was implied by the command [Deuteronomy 6:5: "Love God, your Lord,] with all your heart and all your soul.

One can only love G-d as an outgrowth of the knowledge with which he knows Him. The nature of one's love depends on the nature of one's knowledge! A small amount of knowledge arouses a lesser love. A greater amount of knowledge arouses a greater love.

Therefore, it is necessary for a person to seclude himself in order to understand and conceive wisdom and concepts which make his creator known to him according to the potential which man possesses to understand and comprehend ………………….

Very strong words, against supporting a crook.

 

It is forbidden to buy a stolen article from a thief. This is a severe sin, for it reinforces a transgressor and motivates him to steal in the future. For if he did not find a person who would purchase a stolen article from him, he would not steal. With reference to this, Proverbs 29:24 states: "A person who shares profits with a thief, hates his own soul."