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A Collection of Essays — Mishpotim 5783

Выпуск: A Collection of Essays — Mishpotim 5783. Темы: kashrut, family_education, chassidus_hashkafa, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, хасидут, хасидский взгляд, chassidus, hashkafa, חסידות, השקפה. ‫ שקלים‬- ‫ משפטים‬- ‫בס"ד‬ The Redemption Becoming A Reality By Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz Parshas Mishpatim begins with, "And these are the laws that you should set before them." It is strange for a parsha to begin with "And." When you say "and," it means that what comes next is in addition to what came before. Rashi explains that the "and" here is "in addition to the first (laws, the Ten Commandments and the laws that follow in parshas Yisro), just as the first were from Sinai, also these are from Sinai." The previous parsha ended with laws about the Temple altar. When the girl became ill and could no longer walk or talk, her parents prayed for her instead of taking her to a doctor, prosecutors said… Experts said there had been at least 50 convictions in the United States since 1982 in cases where medical treatment was withheld from a child for religious reasons -October 7, 2009, New York Times1 6 ‫ שקלים‬- ‫ משפטים‬- ‫בס"ד‬ The truth is that this item is a throwback to old news. We do not say, "G-d has struck; will the physician then go and heal?5" 7 ‫ שקלים‬- ‫ משפטים‬- ‫בס"ד‬ And in the case of plague, Jewish law6 takes the opposite position of the aforementioned religious view: "One ought to flee the city when there is a plague in the city… It is forbidden to rely on a miracle and to endanger oneself in any other similar matter." But how does the theology add up? He said to them, "Rabbis, tell me how I can be cured." They replied to him, "Do such and such until you are cured." 8 ‫ שקלים‬- ‫ משפטים‬- ‫בס"ד‬ He asked them, "Who afflicted me?" They replied, "G-d." The sick man responded, "You have interfered in an area that is not your domain. To teach you that the Sanhedrin (the Jewish Supreme Court), should be next to the Temple (and the altar symbolizes the Temple, because the Temple service mainly centered around the altar)." Now that we know that the laws here also refer to the Sanhedrin, the Jewish court, we will understand why the verse says that we should put the laws "before them." As Rashi explains, you sho

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A Collection of Essays

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24 февраля 2023 г.

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32

Темы: kashrut, family_education, chassidus_hashkafa, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary