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Project Likkutei Sichos — project 1 — Re'eh 5783

Выпуск: Project Likkutei Sichos — project 1 — Re'eh 5783. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. (Laws of Slaves, 3:12) This follows the talmudic opinion which interprets the phrase “you The Context: shall surely provide him with gifts” as When a Jewish slave’s term comes to an exclusionary, “him, but not one who has end, his master is commanded to give him a sold himself into slavery.” (Kiddushin 15a) severance gift. The source for this law is Now, if the law was based on an ethic of found in our parshah, “And when you send concern for the worker and of appreciation him forth free from you, you shall not send of the employer, then there would be no him forth empty-handed, you shall surely distinction between a slave sold by the provide him with gifts…. Because 15:13-14) this distinction does exist, this implies that The Chinuch (13th century anonymous the law is a scriptural decree and cannot be discussion of the 613 mitzvos) writes that extended and applied to similar, unspecified even though this mitzvah is not applicable circumstances, such as a paid worker. in the current era, we should still be guided If follows that the Chinuch maintains that by the ethic and spirit of the law and give there is an ethical spirit at the heart of this severance gifts to Jewish, paid employees mitzvah, and therefore it applies to all forms upon the termination of their employment. of terminated employment (sold by by the The Question: court, oneself, or even typical paid employment), while Rambam maintains The Minchas Chinuch, a commentary to the that the law does not apply to other Chinuch, poses a challenge: Rambam rules circumstances. engage with Jews who have little education, If we see the severance as charity, however, we must seek not only to address their then the mitzvah is driven by an ethical immediate gaps in knowledge and practice, spirit and should apply equally to every but aim to elevate them to our own levels employment situation. long someone has been in one’s employment, or how successful they were In his book enumerating the mitzvos, in their role, the employer should give them Rambam inserts the law of the gift after the some charitable gift when their mitzvah of charity, implying that he sees employment ends. There

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Project Likkutei Sichos

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11 августа 2023 г.

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2

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary