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Moral System and Moral People

From "The Pope on 'Love in Truth'" by Father Robert A. Sirico, Wall Street Journal, 7/10/09 ... "Caritas in Veritate is a reminder that we cannot understand ourselves as a human community if we do not understand ourselves as something more than the sum or our material parts; if we do not understand our capacity for sin; and if we do not understand the principle of communion rooted in the gratuitousness of God's grace. Simply put, to this pope's mind, there is no just or moral system without just and moral people."

H. A. Massig: This is worthy of consideration.

A beautiful thought from Rav Pam

"My rebbi, Rav Pam, used to say that when one sees a child in pain, there is an issur of haalama;
one may not avert one's gaze from a lost object. Rav Pam would say that one who chooses to focus on the lost object-in this case, a Jewish child- can merit the mitzvah at the pasuk's end:
Hasheiv teshiveim, return it to its owner.
You can give a Yiddishe kind
back to his father and mother."

Dr. David Pelcovitz, quoted in "Facing the Challenges, Focusing on the Blessings," Yisroel Besser, Mishpachah, March 25, 2009