{"id":1050,"date":"2014-09-11T13:41:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2014-09-15T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T13:41:35","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%94-date-16-elul-5774-91114-chagigah3-tani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d4 Date: 16 Elul, 5774 (9\/11\/14) \u2013 Chagigah#3 {Tani}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Child&#8217;s Play<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[3a bottom] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Elazar ben Azaryah<\/span>: Regarding <i>Hakhel<\/i> (gathering the nation to hear the Torah from the king reading <em>Devarim<\/em> aloud every seven years), the <em>Pasuk<\/em> says to gather the people: men, women, and small children. Men come to learn Torah, women come to hear to better perform <em>Mitzvos<\/em>, but why do small children come? They are too young to learn or to hear!<br \/>\nIt is in order to give reward to those who bring them, their parents, as the children get no educational benefit from coming to the gathering.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tosephos<\/span>: This is the reason\/basis for the practice of bringing small children to Shul.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>T&#8217;s Lesson<\/b><\/span>: Why would we allow all kids\u2019 noise, distraction, and lack of concentration for those parents and members of the Minyan involved? Very young children come to shul even if there is no value for the kids themselves, so the parents can get reward.\u00a0Even if we get a bit upset or distracted by youngsters in Shul we should realize that the parents are getting reward and doing a good thing by bringing children to shul (and even if they may not know it and may have ulterior motives on the surface).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child&#8217;s Play [3a bottom] R\u2019 Elazar ben Azaryah: Regarding Hakhel (gathering the nation to hear the Torah from the king reading Devarim aloud every seven years), the Pasuk says to gather the people: men, women, and small children. Men come to learn Torah, women come to hear to better perform &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-chagigah","category-l4l-by-tani","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}