Storiella ebraica :
In an unspecified time, a fire broke out in a small Israeli village destroyed everything. Elder Aaron, very rich man and poor Rabi, until that day good neighbors, they lost all their belongings in the fire. The poor man was quiet, as if nothing had happened, while the rich man fell into a deep despair. "Rabi," said the rich, "how can you be so calm when all we had was destroyed in the fire? "-" Simple "- said the poor -" To me it was my God, while yours is burned with the house. "
(idea taken from Daniel Lifschitz - "stories of rabbis beggars and robbers" and rewritten by maestrocastello).
In an unspecified time, a fire broke out in a small Israeli village destroyed everything. Elder Aaron, very rich man and poor Rabi, until that day good neighbors, they lost all their belongings in the fire. The poor man was quiet, as if nothing had happened, while the rich man fell into a deep despair. "Rabi," said the rich, "how can you be so calm when all we had was destroyed in the fire? "-" Simple "- said the poor -" To me it was my God, while yours is burned with the house. "
(idea taken from Daniel Lifschitz - "stories of rabbis beggars and robbers" and rewritten by maestrocastello).
For Reflection .... ; ;
Of all the desires that fill his mind, the miser radicalized only one: to have, to possess. And so he may well say: "I am what I own." Nothing else matters anymore. "The poverty lack many things - the poet said Publilius Siro - all avarice." The stingy has a stretch of obsession with what he has, especially with the money intended as any kind of money and by extension what is this coin: capital, money, luck, cash, pecuniary, grain, annuities and more. His desire is never satisfied. It 's a bit as the sea while getting a large number of rivers do not fill ever. The miser confuses the means, what it has, with the end in misery and lived in fear of eternal misery. His torment, his obsession is to possess, store and lives just to save at the cost of being immersed in solitude, cut off from the game of life. Greed is one of the great evils that afflict humans. The main symbolic representation of money in medieval iconography is a bag that hung from the neck of the rich, drags him to hell (J. Le Goff). So, you say, we must not think of tomorrow today? Thinking ahead is wise, foolish is to live just to save and accumulate, since this brings loneliness and sadness. The teaching of the Gospel that recalls Matthew, 6, 24: "No man can serve two masters .." is widely disregarded by many who call themselves Christians. We should read the Gospel and reflect from time to time. San Francisco had been stripped of all his possessions and never would have thought that, after him, the management of the enormous proceeds of the alms of his monastic order would have a tool wear. The story also says that in the Middle Ages wear accounted for the Church and the worst of sins in the following centuries the Church itself reinstated those who lent "to strangle" because you had to fight the crusades, build churches and popes and emperors who did not have sufficient means. An example for all of it is the market for indulgences that provoked tears within the Church of Rome. Today, the culture of economic and financial globalization has raised the myth of efficiency and productivity of homo aeconomicus a single criterion for judging and justification not only economic but also the reality of life; legitimizing greed as an engine of productivity. There is no longer a clear dividing line between being and having. Many have forgotten that the opposite of poverty is not wealth, but justice and that we shall bare the final account.
Of all the desires that fill his mind, the miser radicalized only one: to have, to possess. And so he may well say: "I am what I own." Nothing else matters anymore. "The poverty lack many things - the poet said Publilius Siro - all avarice." The stingy has a stretch of obsession with what he has, especially with the money intended as any kind of money and by extension what is this coin: capital, money, luck, cash, pecuniary, grain, annuities and more. His desire is never satisfied. It 's a bit as the sea while getting a large number of rivers do not fill ever. The miser confuses the means, what it has, with the end in misery and lived in fear of eternal misery. His torment, his obsession is to possess, store and lives just to save at the cost of being immersed in solitude, cut off from the game of life. Greed is one of the great evils that afflict humans. The main symbolic representation of money in medieval iconography is a bag that hung from the neck of the rich, drags him to hell (J. Le Goff). So, you say, we must not think of tomorrow today? Thinking ahead is wise, foolish is to live just to save and accumulate, since this brings loneliness and sadness. The teaching of the Gospel that recalls Matthew, 6, 24: "No man can serve two masters .." is widely disregarded by many who call themselves Christians. We should read the Gospel and reflect from time to time. San Francisco had been stripped of all his possessions and never would have thought that, after him, the management of the enormous proceeds of the alms of his monastic order would have a tool wear. The story also says that in the Middle Ages wear accounted for the Church and the worst of sins in the following centuries the Church itself reinstated those who lent "to strangle" because you had to fight the crusades, build churches and popes and emperors who did not have sufficient means. An example for all of it is the market for indulgences that provoked tears within the Church of Rome. Today, the culture of economic and financial globalization has raised the myth of efficiency and productivity of homo aeconomicus a single criterion for judging and justification not only economic but also the reality of life; legitimizing greed as an engine of productivity. There is no longer a clear dividing line between being and having. Many have forgotten that the opposite of poverty is not wealth, but justice and that we shall bare the final account.
Good Life!
maestrocastello
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