{"id":1017,"date":"2014-09-05T04:07:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T04:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2014-09-10T04:09:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T04:09:02","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%95-date-10-elul-5774-9514-moedkatan25-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d5 Date: 10 Elul, 5774 (9\/5\/14) \u2013 MoedKatan#25 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LIVELY LETTERS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[25a top] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Shimon son of Elazar<\/span>: If a person is in the room when someone passes away, the individual must rip a piece of his\/her clothing (<i>Kriah<\/i>). This is compared to a Torah that gets burned (Heaven forbid), which one must also do <i>Kriah<\/i> for. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rashi<\/span>: A Torah is compared to a person because the Torah is called Light and a <i>Neshama<\/i> (soul) is called the candle of a man. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Marsha<\/span>: The <i>Neshama<\/i> \u201clights up\u201d the <i>Guf<\/i> (body). <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">RambaN<\/span>: Every soul in a body is like another letter on the parchment of a Torah, and when one goes missing it is as if a Torah is being burned in front of us.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>E\u2019s Lesson <\/b>(based on R\u2019 Tatz)<\/span>: Just as every single letter is integral to the Kosher status and proper functioning of a Torah, so too each and everyone of us has a special specific purpose and mission in this world. We are all individuals but must work together as a well oiled machine. We must each recognize that we are only tiny screws in a giant machine, but if one screw was lost or missing the entire unit would cease to function. We must feel great self-worth in helping to accomplish the greatest good in this world together, but always remember that we are extremely limited if we try to serve just our own selfish needs.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIVELY LETTERS [25a top] R\u2019 Shimon son of Elazar: If a person is in the room when someone passes away, the individual must rip a piece of his\/her clothing (Kriah). This is compared to a Torah that gets burned (Heaven forbid), which one must also do Kriah for. Rashi: A &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-moedkatan","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}