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| The Book of Isaiah as found in Qumran |
GUEST ARTICLE BY RABBI BORUCH CLINTON:
Once again I am very happy to present another guest post by Rabbi Boruch Clinton. [See his previous post.]
Rabbi Clinton has taught at yeshiva and Beis Yaakov High Schools for twenty years. He currently works as an information technology content provider, authoring books and courses on cloud computing, technology security, server virtualization, and Linux system administration.
For more, visit his site Marbitz.com.
The article follows and his message at the end is, I believe, very pertinent to our times:
Social Injustice - When Leadership Fails:
Rabbi Clinton has taught at yeshiva and Beis Yaakov High Schools for twenty years. He currently works as an information technology content provider, authoring books and courses on cloud computing, technology security, server virtualization, and Linux system administration.
For more, visit his site Marbitz.com.
The article follows and his message at the end is, I believe, very pertinent to our times:
Social Injustice - When Leadership Fails:
Before reading this essay, it might be helpful to take a
look at these passages from Isaiah: 1:17-27, 5:7-9; 10:1-3; 58:6-9 and 59:3-9
If there’s only one thing that becomes abundantly clear from
reading Isaiah’s words, it is that God cares deeply about the suffering endured
by the weak at the hands of Jewish society’s rich and powerful classes. But
why? Why is this such a key focus more than, say, the mitzvah to love
your neighbor, or than the related but distinct mitzvah to avoid
spreading slander? What is it that makes promoting civic justice into a deal
breaker?
