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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — zei5784 — Vayeitzei 5784

Выпуск: Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — zei5784 — Vayeitzei 5784. Темы: family_education. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה. E-mail DoItForDovid@gmail.com “He lay down in that place.” (28:11) Rashi writes: “In that place he lay down, but for the prior 14 years he did not lay down at night for he was studying Torah in the house of [his ancestor] Ever.” R’ Michel Barenbaum z”l (mashgiach of Mesivta Tifereth Yerushalayim in New York) asks: How is it possible for the Torah to omit such a detail regarding Yaakov’s life? King David said (Tehilim 119:162), “I rejoice over Your word like one who finds a great treasure.” The Chafetz Chaim explained: If one stood before a treasure of gems knowing that he had only a limited amount of time to gather the stones, would he waste a moment? (Sichot Mussar as quoted by R’ Shlomo Katz in Hamaayan, courtesy of Torah.org) The First Thanksgiving The Talmud in Berachos (7b) says: “…from the day the Holy One, blessed be He, created his world, no one thanked Him until Leah came along and said, “This time I will thank Hashem.”” This is certainly unsettling, as how could it possibly be that no one thanked Hashem previously? The Ben Yehoyada points out that the Gemara changed and doesn’t just say, “from the day He created THE world,” but “his world,” that Leah was thanking Hashem for the personal good she experienced, while previously people had thanked Hashem for what he did for the world and for other people. The posuk before, (31:1) says that Yaakov heard the sons of Lavan saying, “Yaakov took all that our father had and from it made all this wealth (for himself.)” Once that perspective was expressed, it affected how Lavan viewed Yaakov, though he knew it wasn’t true. The Ksav Sofer suggests that giving birth is a natural thing and people hadn’t previously given thanks for natural phenomena, only for miraculous things like Avraham’s victory over the four kings, when Malki Tzedek praised Hashem. While we can also find others who seem to have more than we do or fewer problems, we don’t really know the whole story, and it still makes sense to thank Hashem for the good we have which others wish they had in their lives. The Ponevizher Rav, perhaps as an extrapolation of what Rashi says, states that when Leah had her first three children, it was with the understanding that twelve tribes across

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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk

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24 ноября 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education