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Torah Lessons for the Home — TL Vayeishev 5784

Выпуск: Torah Lessons for the Home — TL Vayeishev 5784. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Gruen Another life-lesson we can glean from this parshah is derived from ‫לרגל אירוסי בתם הכלה תחי׳‬ the words “vayeshev Yaakov—and Yaakov settled.” The Medrash tells us here that when we have emunah, it’s possible to settle, to remain in ‫ויה״ר שיזכו לרוות רב נחת‬ the situation we find ourselves and deal with the challenges it presents, ‫דקדושה מכל יוצאי חלציהם‬ rather than running away. ‫ב"ד‬ RABBI SHIMON GRUEN Torah Lessons for the Home FACING CHALLENGES WITH EMUNAH AND AWARENESS This week’s parshah recounts the events surrounding the brothers’ sale of Yosef, including how Reuven saved Yosef’s life by suggesting that he be thrown into a pit rather than killed. The Likkutei Harim brings the well-known Medrash: “If Reuven had known that Hakadosh Baruch Hu would write of him, ‘And Reuven heard and he rescued him from their hands,’ he would have carried [Yosef] on his shoulders and brought him back to his father.” “If he had known,” writes the Chiddushei Harim, he would have done things differently. Very often, people try to avoid or flee from a challenge or difficulty, and although this can sometimes work, the better solution is to have Parshas emunah, realize that the challenge was tailor-made for us, and then do Vayeishev our best to address it in the right way. Question One: (this question dates back to the early summer though the issue is relevant all year round): QU Vacation is about to start and I find myself getting very concerned for my older boys who meet up with ESTION friends and really need good supervision to make sure they don’t meet up with the wrong people. The concept of avoiding and distancing from a bad not being too critical and trying not to be controlling, influence is one we see in the Torah, and no one would as criticism is very likely to make a child simply decide disagree on the problems that can arise from not-good not to share things that are only going to get a negative friends. We teach about it, talk about it, Sometimes, parents feel an obligation to tell a child, “I and try whatever we can to instill in our children the don’t approv

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Torah Lessons for the Home

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8 декабря 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary