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Because of the difficulty that always arises in attempting to achieve any modicum of true justice in civil disputes - and Jewish society for good or for better is a litigious society - the Talmud advocated mediation and arbitration as being the better way to solve disputed monetary issues. All lawyers in the United States are well aware of Lincoln’s statement that "a poor settlement of a case is still better than a good lawsuit." Unfortunately that does not appear to be widely accepted tenet of behavior in a current increasingly aggressive methodology of the practice of law. Compromise forces us to acknowledge our imperfections and our inability to arrive at true and ultimate justice on our own. The rabbis of the Talmud again stated that a good and fair court composed of pious scholars will be granted Divine assistance in rendering its decision in a case that actually goes to final trial and judgment. Even such a court cannot achieve ultimate justice by its own human means. Divine aid is required to approach a fair and equitable decision in judicial matters. Since Divine aid is never guaranteed to any human endeavor, the rabbis therefore strongly urged the idea of compromise and settlement for all issues in human dispute. The rabbis in Avot characterized the idea that "what is mine is mine and what is yours is yours" as possibly being a trait of the wicked people of Sodom. For it allows no room to compromise and move on in life. And perhaps that is the most practical type of justice - the idea of compromise and the realization that most times in life less is more - that any human society can accomplish.
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
