{"id":1582,"date":"2014-12-21T05:44:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T05:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2015-01-30T05:46:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T05:46:02","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%90-date-29-kislev-5774-122114-yevamos78-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d0 Date: 29 Kislev, 5774 (12\/21\/14) \u2013 Yevamos#78 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">POSITIVE PUNISHMENT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[78b middle] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Zeira quoting R\u2019 Yehudah<\/span>: A known <em>Mamzer<\/em> (illegitimate child)\u2019s lineage survives generations eternally (since there is no danger of intermarriage with them or their descendants). An unknown <em>Mamzer\u2019s<\/em> family line does not survive past three generations (because G-d will not allow problematic lineage to destroy His nation).<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rabbi Ami<\/span> once made a public announcement about a certain man (that was previously an unknown <em>Mamzer<\/em>), who lived in his neighborhood, that he was indeed a <em>Mamzer<\/em>. Upon being outed, the <em>Mamzer<\/em> was crying, but R\u2019 Ami said to him: \u201cI have given you life,\u201d [now, since he was no longer an \u201cunknown <em>Mamzer<\/em><i>\u201d <\/i>he would live].<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>D-E-ep Thoughts<\/strong><\/span>: Many times Hashem delivers blows of physical suffering to bring us better \u201cLife.\u201d Sometimes, these afflictions may help atone for some of our our previous sins in order for us to enjoy more opportunities in this world later on [or even to get a higher status in the world to come]. In other instances, embarrassment and suffering may be brought to us to get us to \u201cwake up\u201d and change our views and priorities; to \u201cawaken\u201d our souls. We should always recognize Hashem\u2019s subtle hints for improvement without needing harsher reminders.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POSITIVE PUNISHMENT [78b middle] R\u2019 Zeira quoting R\u2019 Yehudah: A known Mamzer (illegitimate child)\u2019s lineage survives generations eternally (since there is no danger of intermarriage with them or their descendants). An unknown Mamzer\u2019s family line does not survive past three generations (because G-d will not allow problematic lineage to destroy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-yevamos","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","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=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}