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OHRNET — Behar 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — Behar 5784. Темы: family_education, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, пурим, песах, ханука, суккот, yom tov, פורים, פסח, חנוכה, סוכות, здоровье, психология, стресс. When reading this week’s Torah portion, one could think that the mitzvah of Shemita, the prohibition of working the fields in the seventh year, is some kind of “holy crop rotation.” The difference being that in the Torah it says you should work the field for six years and leave it for a seventh. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS by Rabbi Reuven Lauffer BIRKAT HAMAZON (PART 24) BLUEPRINT OF JEWISH DESTINY “Anyone who recites Birkat HaMazon is blessed through it.” (Zohar HaKadosh to Parshat Terumah) Birkat HaMazon concludes: “I was a youth and also have aged, and I have not seen a righteous person forsaken, with his children begging for bread. The last tractate in the Mishna (Uktzin 3:12) concludes with a teaching in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Chalafta, “The Holy One, Blessed is He, found no vessel to hold blessing for Israel other than peace, as it is stated (Tehillim 29:11), ‘Hashem gives strength to His nation, Hashem blesses His nation with peace.’” As Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller (1579-1654) writes so eloquently in his formative and indispensable commentary on the Mishna, Tosefot Yom Tov, it is an inescapable fact that no blessing in the world can be sustained in the absence of shalom. In the same way, says the Vina Gaon, if the Jewish nation draws together and we all learn how to coexist in a state of shalom, we will be able to hold all of the blessings that Hashem pours into us constantly, without losing even a “drop.” The Chofetz Chaim (Ahavat Chesed 2:5) writes, “When we do chesed, it arouses Hashem’s chesed on His nation, even when they do not have Zechut Avot. www.ohr.edu 4 TALMUD TIPS by Rabbi Moshe Newman Bava Metzia 82-88 Backing Up One’s Words Rabbi Elazar said, “This teaches that righteous people promise little and perform much; whereas the wicked promise much and do not perform even little.” This teaching on our daf appears to relate the same message as the statement by the Sage Shammai in Pirkei Avot (1:15): “Say little and do much.” In fact, the Maharsha writes that Rabbi Elazar’s statement is indeed the same one as that recorded in the name of Shammai in Pirkei Avot (although it may

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OHRNET

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23 мая 2024 г.

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10

Темы: family_education, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary