Daily Archives: November 2, 2016

(י) וְקִדַּשְׁתֶּם אֵת שְׁנַת הַחֲמִשִּׁים שָׁנָה וּקְרָאתֶם דְּרוֹר בָּאָרֶץ לְכָל יֹשְׁבֶיהָ יוֹבֵל הִוא תִּהְיֶה לָכֶם וְשַׁבְתֶּם אִישׁ אֶל אֲחֻזָּתוֹ וְאִישׁ אֶל מִשְׁפַּחְתּוֹ תָּשֻׁבוּ:  ( ויקרא פרק כה) You shall sanctify the fiftieth year and declare liberty throughout the land to all of its inhabitants. This will be a Jubilee to you and each man shall return to his inheritance and each man to his family  to dwell with. […]

“Take any action allowed to be vicious; willful murder, for instance.  Examine it in all  lights, and see if you can find that matter of fact, or real existence, which you call “vice.”  In whichever way you take it, you find only certain passions, motives, volitions, and thoughts.  There is no other matter of fact in the case… …In every system of morality which I have hitherto met […]