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OHRNET — t Vaera — Va'eira 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — t Vaera — Va'eira 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. The universe was created with statements – “Let there be…” (By the way, if you count them, you’ll only find nine, but the deeper sources understand the very first word in the Torah, Bereishis, is in itself a creation: the creation of ‘beginning.’) There are the Ten Plagues and there are Ten Commandments (or more accurately, Ten Statements). Synonyms in the Hebrew Language by Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein The Vertically-Challenged Imagine the scene of Moses and Aaron pleading before the most powerful sovereign in the entire world — the Pharaoh of Egypt — saying those fateful words, “Let My people go.” Now, after imagining that scene in your head, reimagine the event bearing in mind the assertion found in the Talmud (Moed Katan 18a) that the Pharaoh in the time of Moses was but one amah (“cubit”) tall. The Talmud cites a popular adage that says, “if your wife is short (gutza), crouch down to listen to her.” Similarly, the Talmud rules that a corpse being merely tall or short (gutz) is not enough of a clue to positively confirm the deceased person's identity. Rav Huna is described as a “short (gutza) man.” Finally, when Elkanah’s wife Hannah prayed for Hashem to grant her a son (i.e., Samuel), she asked that her son not be “too tall or too short (gutz), too skinny or too fat, too white or too reddish, too intelligent or too senseless” (Brachot 31b). Similarly, the Talmud (Bechorot 45b) humorously suggests that an especially tall man should not marry an especially tall woman, lest their offspring be as tall as a ship’s mast; and an especially short man (nanas) should not marry an especially short woman (nanaset), lest their offspring be as short as a finger! *For a more complete version of this essay that goes into the etymologies and nuances of these four words, visit us online: http://ohr.edu/this_week/whats_in_a_word/ ww.ohr.edu 3 TALMUD TIPS by Rabbi Moshe Newman Bava Kama 72-78 Lunch and Learn Rav Nachman said to the Sage Rava: “Because I did not eat the meat of an ox.” The Torah states that if a person steals an ox or a sheep, and then slaughters it or sells it, he must pay the original owner five oxen (for the one ox), and four sheep in the case of

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OHRNET

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12 января 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary