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Parsha Plus — Tazria 5784

Выпуск: Parsha Plus — Tazria 5784. Темы: kashrut, family_education, holidays, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, пурим, песах, ханука, суккот, yom tov, פורים. Impure” (13:45) The Gemara teaches that one of the seven causes of tsaraas is speaking negatively about others.[1] The Shelah writes that the Torah specifically instructs someone with tsaraas to publicly announce his impure status in line with the Gemara’s principle that one who invalidates others does so with a defect that he himself possesses.[2] Accordingly, because the gossiper labelled others as “impure” by revealing their alleged defects, now, he must publicly admit to his own status as having that same defect.[3] 7 In fact, the trait of denigrating others is so severe that the Shulchan Aruch writes that while every family is assumed to be kosher to marry into, someone who always declares others as ineligible should be assumed to be ineligible himself.[4] The following story poignantly illustrates this point: Many years ago, the owner of a large bakery decided to check that the weight of milk and cheese that he was receiving was accurate. The Gemara explains that the reason why we wait until the eighth day for the bris milah and the accompanying celebration is that prior to this time, the happiness of the husband and wife are limited by the prohibition against intimately sharing their joy together. The pasuk [verse] says, “The kohen will see the garment after it was washed, [vhenay lo hofach hanega es 4 ayno] and he sees that the nega [blemish] has not changed, the garment is unclean, you should burn it in fire.” The pasuk uses interesting language: “vhenay lo hofach hanega es ayno,” which means that the appearance of the nega has not changed. His problem is with his ayin, so his tikun must be “hofach hanega es ayno.” He must change his “ayin.” He must take the “ayin” from the word “nega” and make it into “oneg.” 6 However, if someone is so stingy of spirit that he cannot be gracious and he cannot see the good side of life, then he remains a metzorah and “henay lo hofach hanega es ayno” – the nega remains and he must burn the garment because he is incapable of changing his “ayin.” He is incapable of changing his perspective. The beis din investigated this and discovered that the dairyman

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Parsha Plus

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12 апреля 2024 г.

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9

Темы: kashrut, family_education, holidays, parsha_commentary