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The Yeshiva.net — Yisro 5783

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — Yisro 5783. Темы: relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind. Поисковые термины: шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. 1/29/23, 10:38 AM TheYeshiva.net Why I Am a Proud Jew Three Truths which Compelled Jethro to Join Our People Rabbi YY Jacobson 18 Shevat 5780 The Story of Jethro The opening of the weekly portion tells the story of the Pagan priest Jethro who chooses to come to the wilderness to spend time with the fledgling Jewish nation. “Jethro, the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard of all that G-d did for Moses and His people Israel; that G-d had taken Israel out of Egypt.”[1] He took his daughter and two grandchildren and traveled to the wilderness to Moses and the new Jewish nation. The Torah clearly states what Jethro heard: “And Jethro, the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard of all that G-d did for Moses and His people Israel; that G-d had taken Israel out of Egypt!” That is why he picked himself up and traveled to the Sinai desert. [4]He no longer saw himself as a Priest of Midian; instead, he identified himself as the father-in-law of Moses.[5] https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/7359/print-view 1/4 1/29/23, 10:38 AM TheYeshiva.net Note the question of the Talmud: “mah shmuah shama uba?” what did Jethro hear which compelled him to COME? Jethro, an assiduous student of history, realized that there must be something incredibly holy, Divine, and good about the Jew which evokes such hatred toward him or her in the heart of every despot.[6] For Jethro, this was enough to know where to cast his lot. When Jethro heard of the powerful institutions of Judaism—its obsession with education, charity, justice, compassion, loving the stranger, respecting the slave, feeding the poor, honoring the old, giving dignity to the sick and the mentally challenged; when Jethro learned of the Mitzvos of Torah—Shabbos, Mikvah, Kashrus, Tefilin, prayer, study; when he discovered the ethical foundations of Judaism—that no one is above the law, that each person was created in G-d’s image and has infinite dignity, that history has a purpose, and that each of us was conceived in love to fulfill a mission—when the Midianite chief Pagan priest learned of all this, he fell in love with Torah and joined the People of the Book. He underst

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29 января 2023 г.

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Темы: relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind