{"id":1032,"date":"2014-09-08T04:29:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2014-09-12T04:30:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T04:30:31","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%91-date-13-elul-5774-9814-moedkatan28-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d1 Date: 13 Elul, 5774 (9\/8\/14) \u2013 MoedKatan#28 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">HAPPY BIRTHDAY!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[28a middle] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Yosef<\/span> made a big party when he turned 60 years old [because he passed the age that one gets the death penalty of <i>Kares<\/i> for]. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abaye<\/span>: But there are still many other problems that one can be killed with, so why celebrate now? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Yosef<\/span>: I have no idea what will be in the future, but let me at least give <i>Hakaras Hatov<\/i> (thanks) for what I got!<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Rosner (quoting Achronim)<\/span>: Some big Rabbis used to make big parties and buy new clothes (like the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ben Ish Chai<\/span> says) on their birthdays. The celebrations were all in thanks and recognition to Hashem. A birthday should be used not just for partying, but for reflecting on, and analyzing one\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>E\u2019s Lesson<\/strong><\/span>: Everything in life should be used to help us come closer to G-d. Whenever we find an opportunity for thanking Hashem, we should do so and make a glorious occasion of it to bring others to acknowledge G-d as well. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY! [28a middle] R\u2019 Yosef made a big party when he turned 60 years old [because he passed the age that one gets the death penalty of Kares for]. Abaye: But there are still many other problems that one can be killed with, so why celebrate now? R\u2019 Yosef: &#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-1032","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\/1032","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=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}