{"id":12579,"date":"2025-12-17T19:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12579"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:20:16","slug":"479-you-shall-not-distort-justice","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/479-you-shall-not-distort-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"479. You Shall Not Distort Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Portion,&nbsp;<em>Shoftim<\/em>&nbsp;[Judges]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three discernments here: 1) justice, 2) partiality, 3) bribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Torah explains only bribe but does not give any reasoning to justice or partiality. We should understand the difference between justice and partiality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the work, first we should understand justice, and the dispute, who are the litigators, and who is the judge. The thing is that when a person wants to walk in the way of the Creator, he must believe that the Creator is good and does good. Hence, the question is, Why does man feel suffering? At that time, he has a litigation with Providence, since \u201ca judge has only what his eyes see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If one feels suffering, it is hard for him to overcome and say that it is all mercies, since he sees and feels unpleasantness, and he must not lie\u2014that this is not suffering, meaning that he understands that Providence is concealed. This is the meaning of \u201cYou shall not distort justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, one should believe above reason that this is absolute benefit, and that \u201cYou shall not be partial,\u201d meaning not to want the state of \u201cface,\u201d namely knowledge, called \u201cwisdom\u201d and \u201cface.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather, \u201cYou will see My back, and My face shall not be seen.\u201d This is precisely by not taking a bribe, since a \u201cbribe\u201d means that a person wants to receive pleasure for himself, meaning he wants to exert only where he sees self-benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, he is unfit to see the truth, \u201cfor a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise,\u201d since only when he is in a state of \u201cYou shall not take a bribe,\u201d but everything will be for the sake of the Creator, he will be able to be rewarded with wisdom, meaning open Providence. 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