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OHRNET — t Vayigash 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — t Vayigash 5784. Темы: family_education, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, пурим, песах, ханука, суккот, yom tov, פורים, פסח, חנוכה, סוכות, здоровье, психология, стресс. Yosef names his first child Menasheh — “for Hashem has ‘nashani’ all of my troubles and all of my father’s house.” This verse is ordinarily translated as “Hashem made me forget all my trouble and all of my father’s house.” But Rav Hirsch shudders at the suggestion that Yosef is grateful for the ability to forget his aged father and his entire father’s family. Instead, Rav Hirsch understands the word as its alternate meaning — to be a creditor — rendering the statement as Hashem has turned all of my trouble and all of my father’s household into my creditors.” What had seemed to be misfortune and tragedy, Hashem turned into an instrument to shape my happiness, so that I find myself deeply indebted to my trouble and to my family. This is the attitude that accompanies Yosef throughout his travails in Egypt, and upon the first opportunity he expresses this to his brothers: “Do not be troubled… that you sold me here, for Hashem sent me ahead of you, to preserve life… Hashem sent me ahead of you to establish for you a remnant in the land, to preserve it for you, for your great deliverance. This abbreviation is referring to Rosh Hashanah falling out on Shabbos (zayin), both months of Cheshvan and Kislev being choseir (ches) – meaning they are 29-day months instead of 30 (these are the only months that can switch off in our set calendar; the next time Rosh Chodesh Teves will only be one day will be in 5790/2029), and Pesach falling out on Tuesday (gimmel). 3:15), which discusses the wisdom of Shlomo HaMelech ordering to cut the disputed baby in half in order to determine his real mother, prior to this past week was last publicly read three years ago in 5781, and, before that, twenty years previously, back in 5761. Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch famously wrote that “the Jew’s catechism is his calendar.” It is this author’s wish that by showcasing the uniqueness of our calendar year and its rare haftaros, this article will help raise appreciation of them and our calendar customs. We left off last week’s essay with the possibility that the word pesher is actually a metathesized form of the term peirush

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OHRNET

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22 декабря 2023 г.

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10

Темы: family_education, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary