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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
273 - A JUDGE COMMITTING UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
Justice must be administered with the most scrupulous honesty. In the words of the Talmud: “A judge who delivers judgments in perfect truth causes the Divine Presence to dwell in Israel. And he who does not deliver judgments in perfect truth causes the Divine Presence to depart from the midst of Israel…”
A judge should always think of himself as if a sword were hanging over his head and Gehenna gaping beneath him. A judge, who unjustly takes the possessions of one and gives them to another, compels the Holy One, blessed be He, to restore them to him; it follows therefore that he has perverted justice against the Holy One.*