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Parsha Plus — Va'etchanan 5784

Выпуск: Parsha Plus — Va'etchanan 5784. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental. It follows, therefore, that if Dama bar Nesinah could have the forbearance to forgo such a huge sum of money and allow his father to sleep, certainly a descendant of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov can find it in himself to honor his parents under any and all circumstances. Our body of course houses our soul, and a healthy soul might even depend upon a healthy body, but nevertheless being that the commandment is to practically look after our physical health, why are we not explicitly commanded to look after our ‘body’ rather than our “soul”? This caused some raised eyebrows and one of the wealthy men became irritated and asked outright “And how many beds in the hospital are these students donating?” Without hesitating the Chafetz Chaim responded “they are each donating fifty beds!” “Fifty beds?” the wealthy man gaped incredulously. vaeschanan and bein adam lechaveiro Written by Daniel Fine The 10 commandments were written upon 2 tablets; the idea being that the first 5 commandments are of the bein adam lamakom like (eg Shabbat), whilst the second lot of 5 are of bein adam lacheveiro (eg jealousy). The answer is that there is an aspect of honoring one’s parents that is indeed part of bein adam lamakom – that is the fact that honoring one’s parents necessitates the individual to recognize where they came from (/their source) and give the appropriate honor. The reason that killing a human is much more severe than killing an animal or a plant, is simply because man was created with tzelem elokim – ‘in the image of HaShem.’ Thus, what seems the archetypal man-man commandment is actually fueled by a HaShem-man principle. The point is, as pointed out by the Kli Yakar, that the Torah was given to a singular people when we were ‘one people with one heart.’ HaShem made His covenants with Klal Yisrael as a whole, not individual members (80% of Bnei Yisrael were killed off during the plague of darkness in Egypt and this did not contradict the promise to Avraham that his nation would be taken out of slavery). Thus, the Torah starts with a beis when referrin

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Parsha Plus

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16 августа 2024 г.

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14

Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary