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Torah Lessons for the Home — TL Parshas Shoftim 5783

Выпуск: Torah Lessons for the Home — TL Parshas Shoftim 5783. Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית. Rabbi Shimon Gruen TORAH If you enjoy and benefit from Rabbi Gruen's work please consider sponsoring a weekly Parsha LESSONS essay which is read and enjoyed by thousands of readers, and have a Zchus in the many hours of classes which help so many homes. Jew,” is from the root word “hoda’ah — gratitude.” The Now to address the questioners: Sefer Hachinuch on Mitzvah 37, the mitzvah of kibbud av There’s a difference between being appreciative v’eim, explains that one of the purposes of this mitzvah and expressing appreciation. If it isn’t forthcoming, as I that the giver is only giving in order to discharge an have already mentioned, it’s important to know how obligation, and that once the recipient acknowledges to ask for it in a healthy way, and how to react if your the gift, the score is settled. (And even if that doesn’t happen, and you’re left needing or badly wanting more Many times, however, people don’t express their gifts of any kind, there are healthy ways to achieve that, appreciation not because they don’t feel it, but because without becoming an ungrateful person.) they have all kinds of misconceptions and blocks about getting the right words out. Thinking that being thankful pleasant feeling), they may try to remove the discomfort makes you appear weak and needy by persuading themselves that really, there’s nothing This is a very common misperception and one that to be grateful for and the other person doesn’t deserve doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. The Torah teaches us that we have to be ideally, the giving is motivated by a sheer desire to give, grateful and it doesn’t give dispensations for people not a perceived need to “balance the books.” But even if who “just aren’t grateful by nature.” Learn how to you were indebted to someone for their kindness, why become grateful — and you might be surprised at how should carefully avoiding saying “thank you” somehow good it feels. more and you’ll never be able to satisfy him ••• While those without daas seem incapable of As mentioned above, in the majority of cases,

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Torah Lessons for the Home

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18 августа 2023 г.

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Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary