Light from the Future: Parshas Mishpatim

1. Mishpatim – A Job for a Nice Jewish Boy? Judaism and healing have always gone hand in hand. The challenge is to extend our physical and spiritual healing powers to places to which few would…
2. Mishpatim – A Two Way Street The slogan, “Life is a two way street” can be understood to reflect the two directions of Judaism: from the top down and the bottom up. The Messianic…
3. Mishpatim – An Eye for an Eye One of the worst injuries one can sustain is the loss of an eye. Our vision has been clouded, jaded and distorted in exile. G-d promises us that He…
4. Mishpatim – Heal a Heel Moshiach is the ultimate physician who will restore all of the innocence and holiness we have lost in exile.
5. Mishpatim – Internal Medicine Science and modern technology have opened up new vistas. One is the ability to see the internal workings of our bodies and our world. There is a…
6. Mishpatim – Judgment: Prelude to Moshiach The notion that there is a difference between man-to-G-d obligations is a myth. Indeed, the Final Redemption rests on our fidelity to the social…
7. Mishpatim – Liberating G-d G-d is simultaneously above and within our world. In His “within” mode He too suffers from exile. Our role is to “liberate” G-d as we liberate…
8. Mishpatim – No Pain, Much Gain Having Our Cake and Eating It While adversity has a silver lining; G-d’s/our goal is to eliminate pain and adversity and discover growth exclusively through positive experiences.…
9. Mishpatim – Out of Bounds Tikkun Olam, making the world a righteous world is just the first step. Righteousness is not the ideal. The ideal is to bring a higher form of…
10. Mishpatim – Punishment or Rehabilitation The Torah is a Torah of Kindness. Even punishment has to benefit the one who is punished.
11. Mishpatim – Put Your Mouth Before Your Ears! Miracles are usually defined as changes of the natural order as the splitting of the Red Sea. At Sinai, the Jewish people performed their own miracle.…
12. Mishpatim – Talent on Loan from G-d We live in an age of credit. G-d too gives us His blessings on credit and expects payment. The sooner we make good on our repayment of our debts to…
13. Mishpatim – The Alpeh, Beis, Gimmel of Moshiach Youth is not just a prefatory stage for adulthood. Its presence must be felt throughout our lives. Moses’ demand that the children be allowed to leave…
14. Mishpatim – The Angel’s Angle Humans and angels represent two ideals. From Sinai onward, the human ideal superseded the angel paradigm.
15. Mishpatim – The Ox and the Lamb Humans possess the qualities and faults of animals. But we also possess a G-dly soul. Our goal is to reveal that G-dly soul, but we must also…
16. Mishpatim – Tripod Every culture has an ethical system. Torah provides us with a three pronged system. This three knotted system is guaranteed not to unravel.
17. Mishpatim – Tunnel Vision Probing beneath the surface of our personalities can yield surprising and painful results. One can either stop digging or dig even deeper to find the…
18. Mishpatim – Unity and Diversity Too often people have viewed faith and reason as enemies; unity and diversity as opposites. The Sinai experience demonstrated the fallacy of these…
19. Mishpatim – When One Plus One Equals Three There is good and there is good. What is the test that our goodness is the more sophisticated and pure variety?
20. Mishpatim – Who Do We Demand of to Redeem Us? We like to complain. But our complaints have to be directed to the right source. Our most potent prayer is for Moshiach. His petition needs to be…
21. Mishpatim – Widows and Orphans Programmed into the Jew’s psyche is compassion for all of G- d’s creatures, especially the downtrodden; the widow and the orphan. Included in the…

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