{"id":1809,"date":"2015-03-11T19:07:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T19:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:47:45","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%93-date-20-adar-5775-31114-kesuvos37-tani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d3 Date: 20 Adar, 5775 (3\/11\/15) \u2013 Kesuvos#37 {Tani}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">FAVORABLE DEATHS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[37b middle] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Nachman quoting Rabbah bar Avuha<\/span>: The verse states, \u05f4\u05d5\u05d0\u05d4\u05d1\u05ea \u05dc\u05e8\u05e2\u05da \u05db\u05de\u05d5\u05da\u05f4 (and you shall love your fellow as yourself), which teaches us that if your fellow has been condemned to die, choose for him a favorable death [ie: if a person deserves to die by \u05d4\u05e8\u05d2 (decapitation), it should be done from the front of the neck (closer to the esophagus and trachea) by a sharp sword (to cause a quicker death) [rather than by using an ax to the back of the neck].<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Prac-T-cal Tidbits<\/strong><\/span>: Even during an evil person\u2019s execution, the Torah teaches us to have mercy. We must always try to <b>avoid torture <\/b>(starkly contrasted to terrorists\u2019 ideologies). If this is how sensitive we should be to others during executions, how much more so should we be careful to tend to our fellow friends\u2019 needs on a daily basis. We should always try to love others as ourselves, as we should all live out full years until 120, G-d willing.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAVORABLE DEATHS [37b middle] R\u2019 Nachman quoting Rabbah bar Avuha: The verse states, \u05f4\u05d5\u05d0\u05d4\u05d1\u05ea \u05dc\u05e8\u05e2\u05da \u05db\u05de\u05d5\u05da\u05f4 (and you shall love your fellow as yourself), which teaches us that if your fellow has been condemned to die, choose for him a favorable death [ie: if a person deserves to die by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-kesuvos","category-l4l-by-tani","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","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=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}