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Members of Escuela
de Amor CC have written an inter religious reflection paper based on a seminar
they hold every Tuesday for an hour and a half entitled “Learning to co exist” (Aprendiendo
a Con vivir ).
Their objective is to go deep into different
subjects together and to learn about each other, to understand each other and to
love each other. One thing they viewed as a priority was to reach their
communities and tell them the story, this is why they created the reflection
paper which will be distributed by email and hard copies with a different
subject every fortnight. They started with ”Helping your neighbor.” The next
paper topic will be “love.”
Here is the first reflection paper the CC created around the topic of “Helping
your neighbor.”
(The paper was translated from Spanish to English by URI Communications Intern,
Justin Cannon.)
Interfaith
Reflection
"Learning to Coexist"
TZEDAKA (Justice)
“He executes justice for the
fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and
clothing.”
(Deuteronomy 10:18)
God in
His Mercy is concerned with feeding and clothing those in need without it
making a difference who they are, what they look like, what languages they
speak, or the color of their skin.
What is
important to Him is providing for those who lack the basic necessities of life.
God
teaches us that we must live and act as God would, since we are His emissaries
here upon the face of Earth.
The bread
and clothing that He offers to us is not only the material food and the
physical fabric that sustains and clothes the body, but also the spiritual
sustenance which allows us to develop as divine creatures carried and sustained
by His life-giving breath.
To bring
about justice (tzedaka) according to God’s ways is to restore the harmony which
for some reason was lost, offering to those most in need the basic necessities
which they lack.
Rabbi Arieh Sztokman
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