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Parsha Plus — Bo 5783

Выпуск: Parsha Plus — Bo 5783. Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית. Eisikovits eisikovits1@gmail.com 2 The Highest Form of Divine Service Is Going Against Your Nature Parshas Bo Rabbi Yissocher Frand When Klal Yisrael left Mitzrayim, the pasuk in this week’s parsha says that no dogs barked at them (Shemos 11:7). The Medrash says that an Angel came to Rav Yeshaya and told him that he was sent from Heaven to inform him that the dogs merited singing Shirah to the Almighty by virtue of their meritorious behavior at the time of the 3 Exodus, about which it is written “No dog whet its tongue” (Shemos 11:7). I saw in the contemporary sefer Darash Mordechai that the author asked modern day Torah Scribes whether this was still the case, and they confirmed the fact that indeed the essence of the chemicals used to prepare animal hides to make parchment for writing Kisvei haKodesh is still derived from dog excrement. Again, when we contrast that with the “heroism” of the frogs during the second plague, it seems like a very minimal sacrifice on the part of dogs that they refrained from “whetting their tongues.” The explanation is that nothing is more precious to the Ribono shel Olam than a person or animal or creature breaking its nature. Rav Chanina ben Taradyon asked Rav Yosi ben Kisma: “Tell me, what will be my fate regarding the World to Come?” Rav Yosi ben Kisma then asked him, “Have you ever done anything worthwhile in your life (Klum ma’aseh bah l’yadcha)?” Rav Chanina responded that in fact there was an incident he could be proud of: “I once had money I collected on Purim for distribution to the poor. I therefore gave away all the money—the money that was designated for the poor and my personal funds—to those in need.” Rav Yosi ben Kisma was very impressed with this noble action and said “If that is the case then certainly you are destined to enter the World to Come. The Baal haTanya cites as proof the gentile philosophers of earlier times – they had every single pleasure of the world open to them with no restrictions placed upon them by Fear of Heaven or Divine mandates – and yet they gave up all the pleasures of life to

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Parsha Plus

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27 января 2023 г.

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Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary