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Brooklyn Torah Gazette — Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Vayechi 5784 - PDF Version

Выпуск: Brooklyn Torah Gazette — Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Vayechi 5784 - PDF Version. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. When we sanctify and bless this holy day, it is through the power of this “wine.” This is alluded to in the verse, “We will recall Your love more fragrant than wine [‫ ;]מיין‬they have loved You sincerely.”6 The Hebrew word for “more than wine” can also be translated as “from wine,” i.e., G-d’s love flows from the power of wine—Torah.7 Rectifying the Forbidden Fruit The sages tell us that Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit late on Friday afternoon.8 Due to the honor of the Sabbath, they were granted a reprieve of judgement until after Shabbat.9 According to many opinions, the forbidden fruit was a grape.10 We rectify the sin when we make a blessing and use grape wine for a mitzvah around the same time that the sin took place. A number of reasons are given: a) they correspond to the words zachor and shamor, which enjoin us to remember the Shabbat and keep it holy; b) with these two words, the initials of the first four words of kiddush form the Tetragrammaton (‫ ;)יום הששי ויכלו השמים‬c) they boost the total word count up to 72, corresponding to what is called in Kabbalah Shem Ab, a way of spelling out the four letters of G-d’s name with the numerical value of 72. Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Vayechi 5784 Kol simcha torah gazette For parshas vayechi 5784 Volume 8 Issue 16 (Whole #374) 18 Teveth 5784/ December 30, 2023 Printed L’illuy nishmas Nechama bas R’ Noach, a”h For a free subscription, please forward your request to keren18@juno.com Past emails can be found on the website ShabbosStories.com under Brooklyn Torah Gazette Is American Jewry Doomed to Repeat the Mistakes of Their Grandparents? 47:28) Our forefather Jacob is symbolic of the attribute of truth, as it states in the Book of Mica (7:20), "You will give truth to Jacob." For with the quality of truth, a person can survive even the worst of times and live through the direst of circumstances. (The Hebrew name for Egypt, Mitzrayim, means narrow boundaries and limitations.) (Chidushei HaRim) As Rashi explains, this section of the Torah is "closed" (the customary space of nine letters between the end of the preceding secti

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Brooklyn Torah Gazette

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29 декабря 2023 г.

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13

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary