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OHRNET — t Pekudei 5784

Выпуск: OHRNET — t Pekudei 5784. Темы: family_education, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, пурим, песах, ханука, суккот, yom tov, פורים, פסח, חנוכה, סוכות, здоровье, психология, стресс. THE OHR SOMAYACH TORAH MAGAZINE  WWW.OHR.EDU OHRNET PARSHAT PEKUDEI  6 ADAR 2 5784, 16 MARCH 2024  VOL 31 NO.21 PARSHA INSIGHTS by Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair Plain-Clothes Jew “…and they made the holy vestments for Aharon” (39:1) There’s much talk about the rise of antisemitism at the moment. Bamidbar describes the Jewish people travelling through the Wilderness in a camp of eighteen elements: the Mishkan in the center; surrounded by four family groups (Gershon to west, Kehas to south, Merari to the north, and the families of Moshe and Aharon to the east); surrounded by four groups of three tribes; and the encampment as a whole (the kollel). Levi is comprised of eight families (Livni, Shimi, Amram, Yitzhar, Chevron, Uziel, Machli, and Mushi), plus Aharon’s Kohanite family, and so too, there are eight flowers www.ohr.edu 6 along the branches of the Menorah, plus a ninth by its base. It’s not exactly Oxford Street on a Saturday, where you could expect ten thousand pro-Palestine protesters, chic-ly clad with their keffiyehs around their necks, screaming “From the river to the sea,” but I still weighed up whether I should wear my standard outfit of dark suit and fedora, or put on a baseball cap and become a plain-clothes, undercover Jew. Rather, the world was responding to the momentous event of the giving of the Torah on Sinai – “Hashem Oz L’Amo Yiten.” To which they responded, “May Hashem bless His people with peace.” That’s the default reaction of the nations of the world: “May Hashem bless His people with peace.” But, when we lose our connection to Torah, then they see in us no spirituality, no “chosen people.” They see us as a choker around their necks, stifling their enjoyment of this world. However, when we exemplify our true heritage, the nations will finally say, “May Hashem bless His people with peace!” TALMUD TIPS by Rabbi Moshe Newman Knowing When It’s Lost Rav Yitzchak said, “It is the nature of a person to frequently feel for his wallet of money to check that he still has it.” The gemara cites this teaching of Rav Yitzchak regarding human behavior to explain why we are taug

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OHRNET

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15 марта 2024 г.

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7

Темы: family_education, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary