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Torah Musings — Musings - Chayei Sarah 5784

Выпуск: Torah Musings — Musings - Chayei Sarah 5784. Темы: kashrut, family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות. Moslems conquered Jerusalem in 638.] Parshat Chaye Sarah Details aside, HaKetav VeHaKabbalah thinks Avraham’s family and the Land of Israel spared Naming for Importance Yishma’el’s offspring ever having to adjust their names, their familial and landed importance always The Torah adds bishmotam le-toldotam, by their names, surpassed their spouses’. HaKetav VeHaKabbalah explains the need for Avraham’s Maturity the aside with a note from a reality no longer true: in his time (and, he assumed, the Torah’s), when a man Avraham sends Eliezer to find a wife for Yitzchak at a married a woman from a higher class, he would take time the verse, 24;1, describes him as zaken, ba ba- her more honored family name, would similarly change yamim, old, advanced of days. well enough to have known this on my own) his view zaken in the Torah indicates a person who has (Random guy who married into the royal family might learned, whose life experience has taught him the right change his family name to “le-beit David,” for values and goals. Mecklenburg seems to have no problem with it.) “zeh she-kanah chochmah, one who had acquired wisdom.” Avraham’s Family Name and Landholdings Were Enough As opposed to a na’ar, someone who is mena’er, wipes away any messages, refuses to accept what life Bishmotam le-toledotam tells us Yishmael’s sons and demands, still intends to bend the world to his will. persist in faith that ‫ לא יטוש ה׳ עמו ונחלתו לא יעזוב‬- that God will not abandon His people or forsake His For most, the binding of Isaac was the supreme test; for heritage Rabbeinu Yonah, an even harder trial followed— fulfilling God's promise that Israel would be theirs. ,‫ ַה ְּנ תּוִנ ים ְּב ָצ ָר ה ּוַב ִּׁש ְב ָיה‬,‫ַא ֵח ינּו ָּכל ֵּב ית ִי ְׂש ָר ֵא ל‬ ,‫ ַה ָּמ קֹום ְי ַר ֵח ם ֲעֵליֶה ם‬,‫ָה עֹוְמ ִד ים ֵּב ין ַּב ָּים ּוֵב ין ַּב ַּיָּב ָׁש ה‬ The Gemara, Berachos 5a, tells us that Eretz Yisrael is ‫ ּוִמ ִּׁש ְע ּבּוד‬,‫ ּוֵמ ֲאֵפָלה ְל אֹוָר ה‬,‫ְו יֹוִצ ֵא ם ִמ ָּצ ָר ה ִל ְר ָוָח ה‬ only given through ‫יסורים‬. (I have heard him before, on a range of occasions and issues, and he Leave a

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Torah Musings

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10 ноября 2023 г.

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8

Темы: kashrut, family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary