Living Torah Archives

An address to the entrepreneurs of the Machne Israel Development Fund: The word ‘development’ does not describe the process of creating something from scratch; it means taking that which already exists and maximizing it to its fullest potential.

Maimonides rules that the single action of a single person has the power to redeem the entire world. It is analogous to a balance sheet in business. If the profit column has even a single unit more than the debt column, that outweighs everything on both sides of the balance.