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The Yeshiva.net — Kedoshim 5782

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — Kedoshim 5782. Темы: relationships_shalom_bayit. Поисковые термины: шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות. 5/5/22, 8:38 PM TheYeshiva.net Religious But Vulgar A Degenerate Sanctioned by Torah A cartoon by Zalman Kleinman, The Algemeiner Journal Rabbi YY Jacobson 11 Iyar 5772 Four Mitzvos and a Slice of Fish In a small town in Eastern Europe, a poor beggar once approached the home of an extremely wealthy but very stingy man. How happy I feel." An Ego Trip This satirical episode depicts, of course, the profile of a man who may consider himself to be very religious, but who totally doesn't get it; an individual who may technically follow the laws, but who is absolutely alienated from G-d’s truth and from the very definition of holiness; a person for whom religion is merely a self-centered obnoxious ego trip, rather than a challenge to transcend the superficial, base and depraved aspects of the human personality and touch the divine within himself and his fellow human beings. In Nachmanides' own words[3]: "The meaning of this ("be holy") is that since the Torah has cautioned (in the previous Torah portion) against forbidden promiscuous relations and against forbidden foods, while permitting intimacy in a marriage and eating meat and wine, the gluttonous person can find a place to wallow in fornication with his wife or wives and become one of the guzzlers of wine and the gluttons of meat. Therefore, after enumerating the things which it forbids entirely, the Torah declares, 'Be holy.' Constrain yourself also in that which is permitted[4]." "A degenerate with the permission of the Torah!" What a dramatic and moving expression coming from the quill of a 13th-century sage occupied most of his time with defending his Spanish brethren from Christian Jew-haters. https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/951/print-view 2/3 5/5/22, 8:38 PM TheYeshiva.net "Be Holy" is the eternal call to challenge the status quo of our nature, to remember that religion may have little to do with G-d and to recall that serving G-d is not merely a ticket to paradise. [4] The Ramban quotes the Talmudic dictum (Yevamos 20a): "Sanctify yourself also regarding that which is permissible to you." Or as a Chassid once remarked: The first dictum we heard from the Rebbe (Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi) was, "What is forbidden, one must not; what is pe

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