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Peninim on the Torah — Terumah 5784

Выпуск: Peninim on the Torah — Terumah 5784. Темы: family_education. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה. What purpose is served with me laying here in excruciating pain and unable to do anything?’ | then reminded myself of Chazal’s statement {Shabbos 12b), ‘The Shechinah rests above the head of a sick person.’ This means the purpose of а choleh, sick person, is to bring the Shechinah down to this world. Thus, | gather whatever emotional strength | have to enliven myself, so that the Shechinah will remain above my head.” When Rav Zicherman heard the young man’s story, he commented, “This thought should be saved for generations.” Rav Vosner then looked deeply into the eyes of the sick man and said, “How can you say that your life serves no purpose in the world? To characterize the Alter, zl, of Novarodok, Horav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz, one must delve deep into this mussar approach of self-abrogation, soul-searching and introspection, as the precursor for developing oneself into a Jew truly devoted to serving and glorifying Hashem. Perhaps one of the Alter’s aphorisms might aptly describe his approach to _ character development, which is a primary goal of mussar: “Man wants to achieve greatness overnight, and he wants to sleep well that night, too.” When someone is gravely ill, it is necessary to treat him with numerous medicines until one finds the key to his cure. If | were to select a paradigm of mesiras nefesh for building Torah, an example of what it means to negate material and physical accoutrements for the purpose of building Torah in its most pristine foundation, | would focus on the Novarodok Yeshivah movement. (25:2) Chazal (Midrash Rabbah Shemos 33:1) expound on the pasuk’s expression, V’yikchu Li, “They shall take for Me.” The Midrash compares the Torah to a good acquisition (mekach) of which people are unaware of its value. These were turbulent times, and those associated with his yeshivah would have to spread out and reach the masses of Jewish young people who were quickly becoming contaminated with the diseases of Communism and atheism. The Rav replied with a story, “When | was younger and a student in Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, | accompanied my venerable Rebbe, Horav Meir Shapiro, 21, to visit one of the yeshivah students who was gravely ill. The Novarodok students were instructed to spread out through

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Peninim on the Torah

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16 февраля 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education