"Rectifying justice is mishpat. It means punishing wrongdoers and caring for the victims of unjust treatment. Primary justice, or tzadeqah,
is behavior that, if it was prevalent in the world, would render
rectifying justice unnecessary, because everyone would be living in
right relationship to everyone else. Therefore, though tzadeqah is primarily about being in a right relationship with God, the righteous life that results is profoundly social."' [read more]
--Tim Keller ("What is Biblical Justice")
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