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OHRNET — Balak 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — Balak 5784. Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. THE OHR SOMAYACH TORAH MAGAZINE  WWW.OHR.EDU OHRNET SHABBAT PARSHAT BALAK 14 TAMMUZ 5783 – 20 JULY 2024  VOL 31 NO.33 PARSHA INSIGHTS by Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair I’m Kadosh “How good are your tents, O Yaakov, your dwelling places, O Yisrael!” (24:5) My friend Rabbi Leib Kelemen once described a bus journey with his son from Yerushalyim to Netanya. If we know how noble we are, how royal we are, and how lowly and empty are the baubles of the secular world, we would then surely all turn away and say, “I can’t look at that – I’m Kadosh!” Ohrnet Magazine is a weekly Torah magazine published by Ohr Somayach Institutions, POB 18103, Jerusalem 91180, Israel ∙ Tel +972-2-581-0315 ∙ Email. TALMUD TIPS by Rabbi Moshe Newman Bava Batra 11-17 Prophecy in Our Time Rav Avdimi from Haifa said, “From the day that the Beit Hamikdash was destroyed, although prophecy was taken from the Navi’im (Prophets), it was not taken away from the Chachamim (Torah scholars).” The Maharsha points out that this teaching refers to the destruction of the First Beit Hamikdash. The gemara originally quotes Rav Avdimi from Haifa as saying something that sounds similar to the above-quoted teaching, but is in fact quite different: “From the day that the Beit Hamikdash was destroyed, prophecy was taken from the Navi’im and given to the Chachamim.” This statement, however, is incorrect, explains the gemara, since it implies that beforehand the Chachamim were not fit to receive prophecy – which is certainly not true. Therefore, the gemara explains what Rav Avdimi’s statement must certainly have been: “From the day that the Beit Hamikdash was destroyed, although prophecy was taken from the Navi’im, it was not taken from the Chachamim.” The Sage Ameimar adds that “A Chacham is ‘better’ (adif) than a Navi,” and he explains how this principle is derived from a verse in Tehillim (90:12). This seems to imply that a person in the category of “Navi,” although certainly having chochma (Torah wisdom) since it is a requirement for a Navi (Masechet Nedarim 38a), did not possess the same high degree of Torah mastery to be considered a “Chacham.” (See the Maharsha, who, based on the gemara in Nedarim, presents a questi

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OHRNET

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18 июля 2024 г.

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Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary