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OHRNET — t Vayeitzei 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — t Vayeitzei 5784. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental. In Kohelet, it describes the days of Mashiach as “yamim sh’eyn bahem chafetz,” meaning “not desirable days.” The commentators explain that they won’t be desirable days because a person will no longer need to struggle against any internal inclination to transgress. Some of the other terms that Rabbi Pappenheim sees as related to this root include moed (“meeting,” where two or more parties encounter one another), eidah (“congregation,” where individuals join up at a certain place or for a certain goal), adi (“adornment,” which connects that which is decorated with the decorations that cause beautification), and eden (“enjoyment,” because pleasure creates agreement between one who enjoins something with the thing itself). In this way, eidut too is a form of “connection.” He notes that although this concept applies primarily to human witnesses, it can also be extended to physical monuments or objects, which similarly serve as reminders of a certain message to which they "testify." A certain subset of the Torah's commandments is called eidot (Deut. Interestingly, Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Parchon (12th century) in his Machberet HaAruch traces the term eid/eidut to the word adi mentioned above, explaining that that just as ornamental trappings mark something as special and important, so is eidut outstanding from all other sorts of verbal utterances in that it relays important, pertinent information. *To continue reading this essay about eid/eidut and how it relates to sahad/sahaduta, plus a fascinating exploration of the Jewish perspective on martyrdom, please visit: http://ohr.edu/this_week/whats_in_a_word/ TALMUD TIPS by Rabbi Moshe Newman Bava Kama 23-29 Following the Majority? “This teaches that we do not follow the principle of majority in monetary case.” T he gemara states on our daf that this is a halachic principle that we are intended to learn from the two different terms our mishna uses interchangeably: kad (small vessel) and chavit (large vessel). Despite there being a factor of “majority” that we would think should determine which size vessel was in

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OHRNET

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24 ноября 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary