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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — lach5784 — Vayishlach 5784

Выпуск: Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — lach5784 — Vayishlach 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. The Vilna Gaon comments that the eighth verse of the eighth Parsha (Vayishlach) is the one of, “Katonti, I have become small, mikol hachasadim, from all the kindness and truth that Hashem did for me.” Here, Yaakov expresses his worry that in all his successes, he has depleted his reserve of merit. Yaakov told Eisav, “I guarded the 613 commandments and I did not learn from Lavan’s ways.” The Sifsei Chachomim explains that Yaakov was warning Eisav that during his time with Lavan, he had not learned from Lavan’s wicked ways, but instead maintained his high levels of sanctity and guarded the Torah. Rashi quotes the Midrash: “Says R’ Shimon bar Yochai: It is a well-known law that Eisav hates Yaakov - but in this case his mercy was aroused because of all Yaakov’s bowings.” Most of us look at the Midrash and take away that no matter what we do the other nations of the world will hate us, but this isn’t accurate. He told Eisav, “While with Lavan, I managed to keep the mitzvos, but I didn’t learn from him to serve G- d with the same enthusiasm that Lavan served his idols.” When Rachel stole her father’s idols, Lavan came chasing after Yaakov’s entourage. E-mail DoItForDovid@gmail.com …Im Lavan Garti – I dwelled with Lavan Yaakov’s message to his brother Eisav was intended to calm Eisav’s anger against him for getting the blessings from their father Yitzchak through trickery. However, if one recognizes that all he has comes from Hashem, and it is only through Hashem’s mercy that he achieves any success in either physical or spiritual matters, then this is not arrogance, but humility. This is to indicate that it should be a very minute amount, and while some say one should have none at all, the explanation is that one must recognize his own worth in terms of his Torah scholarship and wisdom. After the terrible attacks on September 11, 2001, when terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, killing all on board and thousands of others, the world was in shock. This is the 1/8 of an 1/8 our Sages want us to have: the realization that we have nothing to be prideful of because Hashem is the continual s

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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk

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1 декабря 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary