(ה) ..."כי מלאה הארץ חמס מפניהם". איזהו חמס ואיזה היא גזל א"ר חנינא חמס אינו שוה פרוטה וגזל ששוה פרוטה וכך היו אנשי המבול עושים היה אחד מהם מוציא קופתו מליאה תורמוסים והיה זה בא ונוטל פחות משוה פרוטה וזה בא ונוטל פחות משוה פרוטה עד מקום שאינו יכול להוציאו ממנו בדין
(5) "Because the land was filled with hamas"- What is hamas and what is theft? Hamas is stealing less than a peruta (smallest copper coin) theft is stealing a peruta or more. This is what the people of the deluvial generation would do: they would find a person whose reserve is filled with lupin beans, they would take less than a peruta worth and the next person would do the same, and the next person the same, and the victim would not be able to see recompense from the court...
(י) וְעָשִׂיתָ חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת לַיקוק אֱלֹהֶיךָ מִסַּת נִדְבַת יָדְךָ אֲשֶׁר תִּתֵּן כַּאֲשֶׁר יְבָרֶכְךָ יקוק אֱלֹהֶיךָ. (יא) וְשָׂמַחְתָּ לִפְנֵי יקוק אֱלֹהֶיךָ אַתָּה וּבִנְךָ וּבִתֶּךָ וְעַבְדְּךָ וַאֲמָתֶךָ וְהַלֵּוִי אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ וְהַגֵּר וְהַיָּתוֹם וְהָאַלְמָנָה אֲשֶׁר בְּקִרְבֶּךָ בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר יקוק אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְשַׁכֵּן שְׁמוֹ שָׁם... (יג) חַג הַסֻּכֹּת תַּעֲשֶׂה לְךָ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים בְּאָסְפְּךָ מִגָּרְנְךָ וּמִיִּקְבֶךָ. (יד) וְשָׂמַחְתָּ בְּחַגֶּךָ אַתָּה וּבִנְךָ וּבִתֶּךָ וְעַבְדְּךָ וַאֲמָתֶךָ וְהַלֵּוִי וְהַגֵּר וְהַיָּתוֹם וְהָאַלְמָנָה אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ.
(10) And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God after the measure of the freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as the LORD thy God blesseth thee. (11) And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within they gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there... (13) Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress. (14) And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
דע, כי האדם נפעל כפי פעלותיו, ולבו וכל מחשבתיו תמיד אחר מעשיו שהוא עוסק בהם אם טוב ואם רע, ואפילו רשע גמור בלבבו וכל יצר מחשבות לבו רק רע כל היום, אם יערה רוחו וישים השתדלותו ועסקו בהתמדה בתורה ובמצות, ואפילו שלא לשם שמים, מיד ינטה אל הטוב, ומתוך שלא לשמה בא לשמה, ובכח מעשיו ימית היצר הרע, כי אחרי הפעלות נמשכים הלבבות.
Know, a person is driven by his action, his heart and mind are always drawn after his actions - be they good or bad. Even a completely wicked individual and in his heart is all wickedness, however, if he commits his spirit and put all of his efforts to performance of mitzvot and the study of Torah, even if he does so for a purpose other that the sake of heaven, this person will immediately tip towards the good, and, through the performance of these acts for the non-ideal intentions, he will come to do them in for the highest purposes. It is through the force of action that he will kill the urge to do bad, because - it is action which shapes the heart
Viktor Frankl, Man‟s Search for Meaning, pp. 153-154
Let me explain why I have employed the term “logotherapy” as the name for my theory. Logos is a Greek word that denotes “meaning”! Logo-therapy focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man‟s search for such a meaning.
According to logotherapy, the striving to find a meaning in one‟s life is the primary motivational force in man. That is why I speak of a will to meaning in contrast to the pleasure principle on which Freudian psychoanalysis is centered, as well as in contrast to the will to power stressed by Adlerian psychology.