I am circling towards the end of this year of mourning. Rosh Hodesh Adar will be next Wednesday, and I am working on figuring out so much. Did I do a proper job of honoring my father? Should I have done something else? Would I recommend to others that they do what I did or how they should figure out what they should do? I … Continue reading Redefining kavod, again
This past Shabbat, ISHI and I were talking about the Parashah. I was reading Rav Hirsch’s commentary on Parashat Kedoshim about this verse: אִ֣ישׁ אִמּ֤וֹ וְאָבִיו֙ תִּירָ֔אוּ וְאֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֖י תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ אֲנִ֖י הֹ אֱ-לֹקיכֶֽם׃ You shall each revere your mother and your father, and keep My sabbaths: I ‘ה am your God. ויקרא יט:א Vayikra 19:1 He puts the first two parts of the verse together; they … Continue reading about that liver
Redefining kavod In honor and memory of my father, פסח בן דוד הכהן on the occasion of his sheloshim שלושים לעליית נשמתו ד׳ בְּנִיסָן תשפ״ב I thought I would start out by learning about what one should do to fulfill the mitzvah of כיבוד אב ואם Kibbud av v’em once one’s parents are no longer among the living. It quickly turned into a study of … Continue reading Redefining kavod
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