Are you righteous?

[Cartoonist]

I heard this on the radio and had to look it up.

The Talmud teaches that Moses passed away on the 7th day of the Jewish month of Adar, which was his 120th birthday. The Talmud explains that God calculates and completes the lifespan of a righteous person, as we read in Exodus (23:21), “I will complete the number of your days.”1

Why is this significant?

The Chassidic masters explain that on the day we are born we are entrusted with a mission. The righteous person lives his life achieving his fullest potential and completes his mission on earth in the most perfect way possible. This perfection is expressed in the fact that his mission ends on the very same day that it was begun.

[Warpy]

1. That would make Moses a horrible procrastinator

as well as a typical man who never asked for directions.

[TexasProgresive]

5. I suppose, "never asked for directions,"

is in reference to the 40 years in the desert. The reason for the long wondering is the tribes were condemned to wonder until the unfaithful generation passed away. Here is the doom pronounced upon them:

29Here in the wilderness your dead bodies shall fall. Of all your men of twenty years or more, enrolled in your registration, who grumbled against me, 30not one of you shall enter the land where I solemnly swore to settle you, except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.

31Your little ones, however, who you said would be taken as spoil, I will bring in, and they shall know the land you rejected. 32But as for you, your bodies shall fall here in the wilderness, 33while your children will wander for forty years, suffering for your infidelity, till the last of you lies dead in the wilderness. 34Corresponding to the number of days you spent reconnoitering the land—forty days—you shall bear your punishment one year for each day: forty years. Thus you will realize what it means to oppose me. Numbers 14:29-34

[cleanhippie]

8. Just goes to show how angry, petty, and vindictive God really is.

And to think people still believe in and worship such a.... trump-like character.

[guillaumeb]

2. My politics are...........

lefteous.

Is that the opposite of righteous?

[rug]

3. I like that definition.

The righteous person lives his life achieving his fullest potential and completes his mission on earth in the most perfect way possible.

I'm not righteous.

These guys were.

Especially Bobby Hatfield.

[Lordquinton]

4. How do you know what your mission is?

Maybe I already accomplished it and can just die, I could be wasting time. Maybe someone is working hard on helping homeless, by their mission is to help animals, wouldn't their face be red when they get to heaven.

[TexasProgresive]

6. Thanks for:

The Chassidic masters explain that on the day we are born we are entrusted with a mission. The righteous person lives his life achieving his fullest potential and completes his mission on earth in the most perfect way possible. This perfection is expressed in the fact that his mission ends on the very same day that it was begun.

I think that pretty much sums it up.

[trotsky]

7. Interesting.

George Francis Barnes Jr., a.k.a. "Machine Gun Kelly": July 18, 1895 – July 18, 1954

I wonder what his righteous mission was.