RaYBaSH’s Ponderings of the Perkei Avot
Chapter 1:10
By:Yehudah ben Shomeyr
“Shmaayah and Avtalyon
received from them. Shmaayah would say: Love work, loath mastery over others,
and avoid intimacy with the government.”
Loving work keeps
one from idleness and sin. Loathing mastery over others, in other words, hating
being in charge keeps one humble and far from pride and thus sin and
mistreating others.
Now maybe one
reason it says:
“…and avoid
intimacy with the government.”
Because the
Sadducees did and it corrupted the Priesthood and Temple
“…and avoid
intimacy with the government.”
Lest you learn
their ways and you become corrupt like them, or they learn your ways and find
ways to trap and control you.
“…and avoid
intimacy with the government.”
Lest they regulate
your faith and church and eventually tell you what to teach or else.
Maybe this is why
Yeshua said:
Mat. 22:21 “…Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and
unto God the things that are God's.”
Mark
12:17 adds, “And they marveled at him.”
So when in
Diaspora, I am for separation of Church and State!
Only in Israel
Shalom,
-- Yehudah ben
Shomeyr
