August 28, 2011
by Digital Maggid
שֹׁפְטִים וְשֹׁטְרִים תִּתֶּן לְךָ בְּכָל שְׁעָרֶיךָ
shoftim v’shot’rim titein l’cha b’kol sh’arecha
Appoint yourselves judges and police in all your cities.
(D’varim 16:18)
שופטים — מאך דײַן חשבון הבפש און זײַ דו אליין דײַן אייגענער שופט און אויב דו געפינסט אז דו האסט געטאן זאכער שלא כהוגן, „ושוטרים תתן לך“ זאלסטו אליין זײַן דער שוטר. באשטראף דיך אליין ויי דו וואלסט באשטראפט אן אנדערען פאר דיזעלבער אונגערעכטע און שלעכטע מעשים. (משמרת איתמר)
Police — make your cheshbon nefesh (soul-accounting) and be your own police; and if you find that you have done something inappropriate, “v’shot’rim titein l’cha” (appoint yourselves police) you yourself should be the police. Punish yourself just as you would punish another for the same unjust and bad deeds. (Mishmeret Itamar)
It is easier than easy to make justifications for our infractions especially if no one is looking and no one will ever know. But it’s not true that no one knows.
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August 28, 2011
by Digital Maggid
Mishmeret Itamar
Mishmeret Itamar is the title of the most prominent work by R’ Itamar ben Israel of Konskowola, and the name by which he is commonly known. The following bio is from Virtual Judaica:
R. Itamar ben Israel Wohlgelerenter of Konskowola (d. 1831) was a student of R. Jacob Isaac of ha-Hozeh of Lublin (1745–1815), R. Israel ha-Maggid of Kosnitz, and R. Jacob Isaac ben Asher Przysucha (Pshiskhah, ha-Yehudi ha-Kadosh, 1766–1814). R. Ithamar was known as a prodigious scholar. Many hassidic stories recount how he gave charity even in difficult times and about the depth and fervor of his prayers.
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