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The Jewish Weekly — Shoftim 5784

Выпуск: The Jewish Weekly — Shoftim 5784. Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית. "are you Jewish?" Beer Sheva 6176 3177 Some girlfriends had visited her and "Yes", answered the neighbor, "and New York 31:: 3176 warned that a Jewish student living I'd like to ask you something: why alone in a French town, announcing did you take down the mezuzah on Chabad of Israel to everybody by means of a mezu- your front door two weeks ago?" Rabbi Joseph I. to explain to him the 'security risk', Please guard the sanctity of this publication Judgement and its Application that a judge must “gird his loins with thus share and explain rulings delivered by bands of steel, lift his robes above his the judges, the dictates of the Torah knees, and traverse from city to city… to change not only a person’s conduct, but This week’s Torah reading, Shoftim, teach the Jewish people.” also his character. Even when they acknowledge ment and that brought about by under- each person must act as a judge and an standing and consent can be illustrated by officer in his own home, structuring it ac- the truth of these directives, there may be a gap between such recognition and their comparing the function of a judge with that cording to the Torah’s standards. Every person is “a Advisors at the beginning,” in the age before city in microcosm,” and should “appoint A more comprehensive approach is sug- Moshiach’s coming, we have been granted judges and officers” to control his interac- gested by a verse from Isaiah describing judges and prophets to provide us with tions with the world at large. Often these quali- The Need for Enforcement return your judges as in former times, and ties have been personified in single indi- your advisers as at the beginning.” viduals, as manifest in the leaders of Cha- The judges within our communities and bad until the present age. teaches that we must strive to be "perfect" Rabbi Nachman of Breslov added another even when our only audience is "the L-rd insight: The worst thing is when a person Reb Shlomo Aharon thought to himself our G-d." For what difference does it dwells on his transgressions and sinks that the son-in-law,

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The Jewish Weekly

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4 сентября 2024 г.

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4

Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary