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OHRNET — Shemini 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — Shemini 5784. 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. “Moshe said to Aharon, ‘Come near to the Altar…” (9:7) It says in the Torah, “A permanent fire should remain aflame on the Altar; it shall not be extinguished.” The Gemara in Zevachim 91 says that anyone who extinguishes a single coal from the fire of the Altar has transgressed a negative Torah commandment. www.ohr.edu 2 COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS by Rabbi Reuven Lauffer BIRKAT HAMAZON (PART 20) BLUEPRINT OF JEWISH DESTINY “Anyone who recites Birkat HaMazon is blessed through it.” (Zohar HaKadosh to Parshat Terumah) Birkat HaMazon continues: On high, may merit be pleaded upon them and upon us, for a safeguard of peace. Rabbi Gershon Edelstein (1923-2023), the late venerated head of the Ponovezh Yeshivah in Bene Brak, related that he heard from his father-in-law, Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Diskin (1898-1970), about a person who came to discuss with Rabbi Diskin his lack of Shalom Bayit [marital harmony] and his wish to divorce his wife. But if you take the long view of www.ohr.edu 3 things and consider the effects of long-term Shalom Bayit, it is far more important than the short-term victory over your wife in proclaiming ‘I was right!'” Or, in the words of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager (1830-1884) the first Rebbe of Vizhnitz known as the Ahavat Shalom, when two people live in harmony it is because [at least] one of them is happy to acquiesce to the other. In that passage, the Talmud uses the word chotem to describe their respective “noses/nostrils.” This essay explores the Hebrew word chotem alongside its apparent synonyms af and nichirayim, which also refer to “noses/nostrils.” Let’s start with the most common word in Biblical Hebrew for “nose”: af. Either way, a whole slew of other terms might be etymologically-related to af, which include words that mean “anger,” “face,” “even/also,” “although,” and “baking,” in addition to the aforementioned meaning of “nose/nostril.” Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh of Carpentras (in Aholei Yehuda) writes that the core meaning of af is actually “face,” but that the word also means “nose” because the nose serves as the symbol of a person’

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OHRNET

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4 апреля 2024 г.

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7

Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary