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Parsha Plus — Ki Seitzei — Ki Teitzei 5783

Выпуск: Parsha Plus — Ki Seitzei — Ki Teitzei 5783. Темы: kashrut, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Eisikovits eisikovits1@gmail.com 2 A Tzadik Has the Same Yetzer HaRah as Everyone Else, But… Parshas Ki Seitzei By Rabbi Yissocher Frand Parshas Ki Seitzei begins with one of the more difficult sections of the Torah to understand: When someone goes to war and sees an Eshes Yefas Toar with whom he falls in love, the Torah allows him to take her as his wife (under various conditions and requirements, which we are not going to get into today). According to at least one opinion, the fearful person here is not someone who is afraid of battle, but rather he is a G-d fearing person who is afraid that he will be punished at the Hand of G-d during the dangerous wartime scenario because of aveiros he has committed. When a person makes a cheshbon ha’nefesh (internal reckoning) and asks himself “Why is this year going to be different than all other years?” he 5 needs to be thinking about ensuring that he is not put into situations in which he nebech feels compromised such that he may not be able to overcome his Yetzer HaRah. The Torah is saying “V’Asafto el toch Beisecha“—if you keep all your utensils inside your house and you are afraid to lend them out, then you will wind up with the plague of Tzaraas and you will need to take out all your utensils, and you will be shown to be a stingy miser. Many meforshim, among them the Schach in his seferon Taryag Mitzvos, say that even though the simple reading of this pasuk by HaShavas Aveidah is that a person needs to take the found “lost objects” into his house, there is another meaning here as well: A person must return a sinner to his proper state of being—meaning to return his nefesh (soul) to him by giving him appropriate rebuke when necessary. In one sense, this can be understood to mean that since it is part of the Torah, we will receive reward for studying it, irrespective of the practical application of these laws (in the same way that we receive reward nowadays for studying the laws of the Temple or other ritual practices that we are no longer able to observe on a practical level.) However, Rabbi Abraham J Twerski has a diffe

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Parsha Plus

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25 августа 2023 г.

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15

Темы: kashrut, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary