Around this time of year, many people make "resolutions."
Most of the time, however, they never carry through on those resolutions. What
does the word "resolution" mean? Webster's defines resolution as -- "the
act or process of reducing to simpler form, the act of analyzing, the act of
answering: solving, the act of determining, to find an answer." The first thing
we learn about "resolution" is that it involves some type of action. But,
the way we use the word "resolution," it is more like a promise instead
of an action. Obviously, passive promises, are more times than not, are easily broken.
Read Rabbi Leynor’s latest blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-year-actions-instead-of-resolutions.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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