Main news for 4 December 2017

The conflict between God's law and human laws existed in all times. What is its sense? Why harmony is impossible, why it is impossible to divide the spheres of application of these so diverse laws? If God's law was similar to numerous laws invented by men, may be such division would be possible. But such is not the case, and not because the law given by God is not similar to the laws invented by men, but because it is different in its essence. Any legislation invented by men, represents a kind of result of the public agreement, even when it seems that there is no agreement. The law is only respected when it corresponds to the system of values accepted in the society.

If it is not the case, to oblige people to respect the law is practically impossible by any, even the most severe methods. People define mostly the system of values in the fallen world for themselves. It is another thing with God's law, to which Mattathias calls to the observation, even if it will be necessary to pay for it one’s own life. The Torah comes from objectively existing regularities defining the relationships of man with God and with other people.

There is nothing accidental, nothing arbitrary here. The law given by God can be only what it is, and nothing else. Besides such a law is universal: because man always lives in God's presence, and when he thinks of that (for example, in the meeting of his religious community), and when he inclines to forget about God (for example in daily things). That is why for the man, wishing to go on the way of God, there is only one law: the one that God gave to man. If the laws invented by men do not contradict God's law, then man can observe them: it will not influence his spiritual life and his relationships with God. But when it is necessary to choose, the choice for him can be only one: he prefers God's law to the human.