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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — Kedoshim 5784

Выпуск: Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk — Kedoshim 5784. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Therefore, I can attain great levels of holiness.” “You shall be holy people… a man shall fear his mother and father, and guard My Sabbaths, I am the L-rd your G-d.” From a parsha with the lofty name, “Kedoshim – Holy Ones,” we would expect a list of demands that would cause the most ascetic of souls the sublime pain of denying his flesh some exquisite desire. Hashem says, “Just keep Shabbos, eat, sleep, study, sit back, enjoy, and make the statement that you’re not the real mover and shaker behind the world, I am.” That will make us holy because it takes self-control to be able to negate our egos and relinquish control. Rabbi Label Lam once asked Rabbi Ezriel Tauber z”l: “The Torah says, “Do not go as a talebearer among your people, and do not stand (idly) upon your brother’s blood, I am Hashem.” [This is one source of the prohibition of gossip/Lashon Hara, and the second piece means that if you have a chance to save someone’s life you must do so.] He continued, “Why does the Torah present the saving of a life as a prohibition not to ignore someone in peril instead of simply saying, ‘You shall save your friend’s life’?” Rabbi Tauber responded instantly. Many people know that Rabbi Akiva said this was a “great principle of the Torah.” What is not as well-known is the beginning of that verse: Do not take revenge, and do not [even] bear a grudge, [and you shall love your fellow man like yourself.] So, the person I am commanded to love is NOT just someone whom I admire, nor even someone with whom I have very little to do. While Jews do not “turn the other cheek” and forgive any wrongs against them unilaterally, and the Torah requires recompense, when the other person wishes to move forward, even if they haven’t apologized as fully as we might like (or at all) we are supposed to move forward with them. E-mail DoItForDovid@gmail.com A Torah Mantra – Rabbi Michael Skobac “You shall be holy for I, G-d, am Holy.” (Leviticus 19:2) There is a fascinating Midrash on this verse in which G-d says, “Yachol kamoni – Do you think you can be like Me?! The posuk ends, “I am Hashem.” Perhaps this reminds us that we are all creations of Hashem and not in competition with each other since He will give reward to those who deserve it a

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Facebuker Shabbos Table Talk

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10 мая 2024 г.

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Темы: parsha_commentary