וְלֹ֧א יְלַמְּד֣וּ ע֗וֹד אִ֣ישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵ֜הוּ וְאִ֤ישׁ אֶת־אָחִיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר דְּע֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה כִּֽי־כוּלָּם֩ יֵדְע֨וּ אוֹתִ֜י לְמִקְטַנָּ֤ם וְעַד־גְּדוֹלָם֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֤י אֶסְלַח֙ לַֽעֲוֺנָ֔ם וּלְחַטָּאתָ֖ם לֹ֥א אֶזְכָּר־עֽוֹד׃ (ס)
At hindi na tuturuan ng bawat isa ang kanyang kapwa, at ng bawat isa ang kanyang kapatid, na sinasabi: “Kilalanin ninyo ang Walang-Hanggan”; sapagkat makikilala nilang lahat Ako, mula sa pinakamaliit sa kanila hanggang sa pinakadakila sa kanila, sabi ng Walang-Hanggan; sapagkat patatawarin Ko ang kanilang kasamaan, at ang kanilang kasalanan ay hindi Ko na aalalahanin pa.
Akeidat Yitzchak
Psalms 92,2, "it is good to pay homage to G-d and to sing praises to Your name, most High." This is the conclusion reached by David after having overcome doubts in this matter. Cognition of G-d’s works is our primary task. Glorifying His works in song and music is the natural corollary of such cognition. The song the Jewish people sang after their deliverance from the army of Pharaoh by G-d’s miraculous personal intervention, is a prime example of this.
For the Perplexed of the Generation
Also, [we need this allowance of eating meat] so long as the ethical recognition has not reached a clear status, so long as we have not reached that level that we have been promised about, that (Jeremiah 31:33) “I will place my Torah within them, and on their hearts I will write it,” which means that morality will then be felt with all of its brilliance in the hearts of man. (Jeremiah 31:34) “And they will no longer teach each other, a man to his fellow, a man to his brother, to say ‘Know God’, for everyone will know Me, from the smallest to the biggest.” And what is “knowledge of God”? The prophet has already taught us, (Jeremiah 9:23) “This is what a person can praise himself with. Think and know Me, for I am God, who does kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the land, for these I desire, says God.” Behold, it is the natural morality in its widened understanding that itself is truly “knowledge of God”! So long as man requires educators from the outside [to teach him] the obligations of human ethics and morality, he will also need many guards and fences so that the way that he lives does not get corrupted, as well as to make him ready to receive the appropriate and desired instruction. Sometimes, we also need to give up on some perceptible aspect of the ways of morality, in order to get humanity ready for an even higher level, because if we were to put first what should really come later, then we would lose everything.