MOSHE'S MORAL BRAVERY - "DARKHEI MOSHE", PARASHAT SHEMOT, RABBI MOSHE CHALPHON HACOHEN - PART 4

A person must also not think to themselves: "Perhaps by attending to someone else's issues I will suffer some physical harm or monetary loss, or my status will fall in the eyes of the local government", even quoting the Rabbinical rule that "Your lost object and your peer's lost object – your lost object takes precedence" etc., for only someone who is of an unclean spirit would say such things, firstly because if one does not act to help and save the poor and impoverished – tomorrow or the day after the persecution will arrive at that person’s door – and then it will indeed be one’s own affliction. And moreover in issues that regard the rule of the land – it is an obligation and a commandment for every person to protest, thus fulfilling the verse: "And you shall purge the evil from your midst" (Deut. 13:6). And whoever turns away from such situations is a despicable lost wretch. [Translation by Mishael Zion. Edited for gender neutrality]