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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — Yisro 5783

Выпуск: Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — Yisro 5783. Темы: не определены автоматически. E-mail DoItForDovid@gmail.com “You will surely weary – you, as well as this people that is with you – because the matter is heavier than you, you will not be able to do it alone.” (Exodus 18:18) When Yisro saw that Moshe was sitting from morning to night issuing halachic rulings for the Jewish People as they stood around him, he felt it was not proper. Back to the Present by Rabbi Pinchas Avruch "G-d said to the Jewish Nation: My children, you read the Torah narrative of the Giving of the Torah every year and I will give you merit as if you stood at Mount Sinai and accepted the Torah, as it says, 'On this day, they arrived at the Wilderness of Sinai.' (Shemos/Exodus 19:1)" (Yalkut Shimoni, Yisro 271) How are we to understand this Divine instruction? Michtav Me'Eliyahu (collected writings and discourses of Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler (1891-1954) of London and B'nai Brak, one of the outstanding personalities and thinkers of the Mussar movement) explains that the "merit" is G-d's credit based on His celestial estimation of our actions, His evaluation of our service from a spiritual perspective. So too here, concludes Rabbi Dessler, we are to approach the Festival of Shavuos with the appreciation that our spiritual essence IS standing at the foot of Mount Sinai, and our reading of the narrative is a real-time, real-life recreation of those events 3315 years ago. Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv ("The Alter of Kelm"; 1824-1898; One of the foremost disciples of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter,) elucidates that the core of "fatherhood" is not the contribution of mere chromosomes that generate the physical body. It needs to be expressed in detached terms because such a phenomenon - that the reading of the Torah's description of the Revelation at Sinai IS a reliving of that most profound experience TODAY - is unfathomable to the human. By creating a system wherein more than one in ten Jews was answering questions and helping others, Yisro was suggesting a boon to the Jewish People in terms of their natural inclination to be of use to others. Moshe who had to think about and decide each case would be understandably tired, especially since he possessed tremendous empathy for the Jewish People and ruling against some people may have been difficult. Furthermore, the perception that we stood at Mount Sinai is a

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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk

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10 февраля 2023 г.

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