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Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Subject: Parshas Mishpatim
To: Me <yonah927@gmail.com>
Liyluy Nishmas Elchonon Tzvi ben R' Yisroel Menachem, R' Baruch Moshe Aryeh ben R' Zev Yehuda, Zev Yehuda ben R' Shmuel Mordechai, R' Dovid Meir ben R' Shmuel,
In perek chaf alef posuk beis the posuk says "Ki sikne eved ivri sheis shanim ubashviis yeitzei lachafshi chinam." "When you will buy an eved ivri he shall work for six years and in the seventh he shall go free without charge."
Chazal say that one of the ways a jew is sold as an eved ivri is if he steals and has no way of paying it back.
Rav Yaakov Aryeh Neiman ztl brings down a question that is asked on this posuk and its location. Wouldn't it be more befitting to begin parshas Mishpatim with discussions of people doing gemilos chassadim such as lending people money or watching things for people as a shomer chinam, and not to begin with what should be done to robbers?
He answers from the Alter of Kelm that if the Torah was written by man then this question would be a valid point. Start with chashuv people not with ganavim. However, the Torah was given by Hashem who is our father and we his children. When a father has a son who is a ganav amongst his sons, a son who is troubled, all his thoughts and all his worries are directed toward that son. He is constantly thinking of ways to help out his son to lead him back onto the correct path. Therefore the Torah begins the parsha with the parsha of eved ivri.
This also can help us understand why the Torah commands Beis Din to sell them ganav as oppose to throwing him in jail. Throwing the ganav in jail as a punishment would just put him together with more ganavim and probably just cause him to become a worse person. Finally when he gets out he will be in the same penniless situation and will be forced to steal again. Selling him however, will assist him in getting back on his feet and help him back onto the correct Torah path.
We see the tremendous love that Hashem has for each and every one of us. Even a ganav has Hashem's immeasurable love, how much more so someone who spends their life trying to get as close as they can to our father in Heaven... Good Shabbos
From: <3478602930@vzwpix.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Subject: Parshas Mishpatim
To: Me <yonah927@gmail.com>
Liyluy Nishmas Elchonon Tzvi ben R' Yisroel Menachem, R' Baruch Moshe Aryeh ben R' Zev Yehuda, Zev Yehuda ben R' Shmuel Mordechai, R' Dovid Meir ben R' Shmuel,
In perek chaf alef posuk beis the posuk says "Ki sikne eved ivri sheis shanim ubashviis yeitzei lachafshi chinam." "When you will buy an eved ivri he shall work for six years and in the seventh he shall go free without charge."
Chazal say that one of the ways a jew is sold as an eved ivri is if he steals and has no way of paying it back.
Rav Yaakov Aryeh Neiman ztl brings down a question that is asked on this posuk and its location. Wouldn't it be more befitting to begin parshas Mishpatim with discussions of people doing gemilos chassadim such as lending people money or watching things for people as a shomer chinam, and not to begin with what should be done to robbers?
He answers from the Alter of Kelm that if the Torah was written by man then this question would be a valid point. Start with chashuv people not with ganavim. However, the Torah was given by Hashem who is our father and we his children. When a father has a son who is a ganav amongst his sons, a son who is troubled, all his thoughts and all his worries are directed toward that son. He is constantly thinking of ways to help out his son to lead him back onto the correct path. Therefore the Torah begins the parsha with the parsha of eved ivri.
This also can help us understand why the Torah commands Beis Din to sell them ganav as oppose to throwing him in jail. Throwing the ganav in jail as a punishment would just put him together with more ganavim and probably just cause him to become a worse person. Finally when he gets out he will be in the same penniless situation and will be forced to steal again. Selling him however, will assist him in getting back on his feet and help him back onto the correct Torah path.
We see the tremendous love that Hashem has for each and every one of us. Even a ganav has Hashem's immeasurable love, how much more so someone who spends their life trying to get as close as they can to our father in Heaven... Good Shabbos
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