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Lamplighter — Emor 5784

Выпуск: Lamplighter — Emor 5784. Темы: kashrut, family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות. Lamplighter Issue 1657 CHABAD HOUSE Dedicated to the revered leader of world Jewry 9 Iyar 5784 OF CAULFIELD 770 The Lubavitcher Rebbe 17 May 2024 Parshas EMOR LIVING WITH THE Why Reciting a Blessing Makes a Difference TIMES Aharon Loschak I was recently away from home and, for the first time in a long while, did not have immediate access to a set of wheels. The Talmud provides the reasoning: Counting the Omer and states that on the When one takes pleasure from this world without a blessing, it is as if he benefited from G-d's consecrated property, as it is fiftieth day of the Counting of the Omer, Shavuos should be observed. one moment to take the Jews out of Egypt, but Expanding the circle of who's allowed to eat kodshim, the Torah continues: forty years to take Egypt out of the Jews.” If a kohen acquires a person, an acquisition through his money, he may eat of it, and those born in his house may eat of Moreover, in a complete sense, “taking his food.2 Egypt out of the Jews” — i.e., the personal In other words, while in the service of the Kohen, the non-Kohen assumes priestly status in the sense that he's allowed refinement the Jews must undergo — must to eat from something that is otherwise only permitted to a Kohen. In the same of the Divine service prescribed for the way that a Kohen's servant can benefit from the holy items belonging to his master, reciting a blessing reminds us that we Counting of the Omer:to refine and elevate our are G-d's servants and can thus enjoy His world. The 49 days of the Counting of A blessing is much more than just “asking permission” — it's a declaration that there really isn't anything that does not the Omer correspond to the 49 dimensions of belong to Him, that is not part of Him—me, you, and everyone else included. So, in 1975, he arranged an audience asked my father how he was doing and wanted an update on how things turned out since the last time they met, but my with the Rebbe, and I only heard years father never told us any details of that The Survivor Who later what really happened there. Down which the Rebbe replied, “If you're not going to sit,

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Lamplighter

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14 мая 2024 г.

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Темы: kashrut, family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary