Hi Ludo'
On Wed, Jan 10 2024, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I have to admit I have a hard time keeping up.
You work too hard! Jethro the Midianite high priest [1] liked to focus
on the "grand design":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0a9WFkgzU
More practically, Jethro said:
(13) It came about on the next day that Moses sat down to judge the
people, and the people stood before Moses from the morning until the
evening. When Moses' father in law saw what he was doing to the people,
he said, "What is this thing that you are doing to the people? Why do
you sit by yourself, while all the people stand before you from morning
till evening?" Moses said to his father in law, "For the people come to
me to seek God. If any of them has a case, he comes to me, and I judge
between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the statutes of God and
His teachings." Moses' father in law said to him, "The thing you are
doing is not good. You will surely wear yourself out both you and these
people who are with you for the matter is too heavy for you; you cannot
do it alone. Now listen to me. I will advise you, and may the Lord be
with you. [You] represent the people before God, and you shall bring the
matters to God. And you shall admonish them concerning the statutes and
the teachings, and you shall make known to them the way they shall go
and the deed[s] they shall do. But you shall choose out of the entire
nation men of substance, God fearers, men of truth, who hate monetary
gain, and you shall appoint over them [Israel] leaders over thousands,
leaders over hundreds, leaders over fifties, and leaders over tens. And
they shall judge the people at all times, and it shall be that any major
matter they shall bring to you, and they themselves shall judge every
minor matter, thereby making it easier for you, and they shall bear [the
burden] with you. If you do this thing, and the Lord commands you, you
will be able to survive, and also, all this people will come upon their
place in peace." Moses obeyed his father in law, and he did all that he
said. Moses chose men of substance out of all Israel and appointed them
as heads of the people, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds,
leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens. And they would judge the
people at all times; the difficult case they would bring to Moses, but
any minor case they themselves would judge. [1]
Kind regards
Felix
[1] https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9879/jewish/Chapter-18.htm#v13
