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Project Likkutei Sichos — Emor 5784

Выпуск: Project Likkutei Sichos — Emor 5784. Темы: kashrut. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר. The arava, willow-branch, is described “And you shall take for yourselves on the as growing by “the brook.” Yet, the Talmud first day, the beautiful fruit of the tree, date rules that even if the willow grows in a palm fronds, a branch of a braided tree, and non-irrigated field, not by the brook, it is willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice kosher. That The explanation for this legal question can is, with the exception of the willow-branch, only be appreciated by way of the inner as follows: dimension of the Torah, thus exemplifying the inherent unity between all interpretive The esrog must be “beautiful” and grow modes of the Torah, from the legal to the from a tree. noun kapos, related to the word for bound, The esrog, which has a good aroma and taste represents the person who has good deeds and Torah study (an aroma which because they are a Jew, a descendant of benefits its surroundings alludes to good Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The qualification of being “grown by the river,” lulav which has taste (dates) but no aroma that is, a basic self-awareness of their origin alludes to a person who has Torah study but and identity as Jews, still, they are essential not translated into good deeds. Those Jews who possess some tangible expression of their Judaism — they have Second Opinion: Jewish education and learning, or Jewish Another opinion states that the lulav does action, giving, and spiritual growth — must not need to be from a fruit-bearing date exhibit their strengths to be part of the tree. And the willow which possesses A Jew who is capable, due to upbringing neither taste nor aroma alludes to a Jew and education, of Torah learning and without any discernible connection with mitzvos, must continue to express those their Judaism. fruit-bearing date tree and have leaves that are pliable enough to be bound to the spine The Midrash famously teaches that the four (this is derived from the Torah’s use of the species represent differently engaged Jews. But a Jew who, due to says the Midrash, is that all the species are circumstance, is unable as of yet to fulfill taken and bound together, representing the those tangible expressions of Jewishness unity between all Jews. If they have to a person who has Torah learning and been given tho

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Project Likkutei Sichos

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13 мая 2024 г.

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Темы: kashrut