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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — oscha facebuker — Behaalotcha 5783

Выпуск: Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — oscha facebuker — Behaalotcha 5783. Темы: kashrut, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. To hint to an answer, Rashi begins by saying, “R’ Shimon says.” R’ Shimon was famous for saying “I (with my merits) can release the entire world from judgment.” (Sukka 45b) Since he felt he could do that, he was keenly aware of the power of each individual, not just himself. It’s up to us to keep assessing the situations of our lives and see if He is prodding us along, or saying, “You’re not finished here just yet.” One of the episodes in the Torah we are specifically commanded to remember is recounted in Parshas Behaaloscha, though the commandment is elsewhere (Devarim 24:9.) We are commanded to remember what Hashem did to Miriam when we left Egypt. The short version is that Miriam spoke negatively about Moshe, her brother, and was punished with tzaraas, spiritual “leprosy.” Though she was a righteous woman and he was a righteous man, and also, he was her brother, whom she loved, because Miriam was out of line in speaking this way, she was punished. A Public Appeal Through the kindness of Hashem, I have now attained the age of “strength” (the eighties - see Tehillim 90:25), and virtually my entire life I have not diverted my mind from pondering the matter of speech, which involves numerous positive and negative commandments. The reason we are to always remember what happened to Miriam is to remind us to always give people the benefit of the doubt, recognize their greatness, and even if we think we’re fighting for the rights of others, we must be extremely careful with our words. Because they are harmful to nursing mothers, as we tell them, “Don’t eat onions or garlic because of the baby.”” Rashi’s underlying question, according to the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt”l, was why the entire nation had to be deprived because of this minority. This was the complaint of some of the rabblerousers when they said, “We remember the fish we ate for free in Egypt, and the melons, and leeks, and onions and garlic.” Rashi quotes: “Says R’ Shimon, why did the Mon taste like everything but these items? It is rare that these same people would feel such distress upon realizing that they have accepted as fact malicious talk about a certain individual, thereby transgres

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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk

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9 июня 2023 г.

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Темы: kashrut, parsha_commentary