The scream that nobody hears

In this weeks parsha (Ki Teitzei Chapter 22) the Torah tells us that if there is a virgin girl betrothed to a man, and [another] man finds her in the city, and lies with her we pelt them both with stones until they die. Both because she did not cry. But if this happens in the field we do not kill her we only kill him. Because she screamed but there was no one to save her. She committed no sin.

So what is a field? A field is an empty place, there is nothing there. No Torah no Mitzvot.

When there is a Jew in a far away place where there is no Torah, no Jewish education, he was raised “secular”, etc… And this Jew is not keeping Torah or Mitzvot he is not guilty, he committed no sin. Why? Because she screams and there is no one to save her. So who screams? THE SOUL SCREAMS but in a field there is no one to hear this scream so there is no guilt. The body is not guilty since he had no education, he is “captured among the nations” and the soul is not guilty because she did what she could, she screamed.

That is the reason why we have to transform the field into a city. To bring Torah and Mitzvot everywhere there is a Jew. This is the reason The Rebbe sent emissaries all over to transform the world into a city. So no scream of a soul goes unheard.