Rabbi Baruch Meir quotes from Genesis 33:18 Vayavo Yaakov Shalem= Jacob came whole. He adopts Rashi's interpretation of Shalem: Whole. “Whole in body… whole in property, whole in his Torah study:”
These days, one has to be ready to age in wholeness/peacefully, one must make an effort to age whole/peaceful in body, in wealth, and with God’s Torah. All the deeds are whole when they are done for the benefit of his brothers.
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Baruch Meir echoes Kohelet I (Ecclesiastes 7:20):
There is no righteous man on earth that does only good and is never be guilty of khet.
The meaning of it is that the good deed in itself should be faultless. However, if it [the good deed] is done for the sake of friends, it does not matter if it [the good deed] involves some bad thinking or digression because what matters is that his friends will get what they need.
Therefore, I am ready, God willing, for the rest of the days that God grants to me to live to do good deeds with my body, wealth, and in teaching others. I hope that not one day will pass without any one of the three types of good-doing, and merciful God will save me from evil inclination.
| Notes: Sh L M are the three letters of the Hebrew root of Whole, Complete -- and also of Peace. As used in the Bible, the verb to come also means to age, and Baruch Meir uses the verb in this sense. |
