{"id":1823,"date":"2015-03-14T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:48:22","slug":"%d7%a9%d7%91%d7%aa-date-23-adar-5775-31414-kesuvos40-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"\u05e9\u05d1\u05ea Date: 23 Adar, 5775 (3\/14\/15) \u2013 Kesuvos#40 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">SAFETY FIRST<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[40a top] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rav Zevid to Rav Kahana<\/span>: We only apply the principle of,<em> \u201cAsei Doche lo Sa\u2019aseh\u201d<\/em> (a positive commandment overrides a negative one), when there is no other choice in the matter [ie: circumcision with a <em>Tzaraas<\/em> (spiritual skin disease) affliction on the foreskin].<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Rosner<\/span>: There is a debate whether the prohibition is just pushed aside or it does not even exist in this case.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Tatz<\/span>: If the concept of <i>Aveiros<\/i> (prohibitions) is to keep us on track in this world (physically and spiritually), then they are \u201cnot needed\u201d when one has complete G-dly altruistic motivations. In these special cases, [GM\u2019 Horayos 10b] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Nachman ben Yitzchak<\/span>: An <em>\u201cAveirah Leshma\u201d<\/em> (a transgression performed with good intention) is (even) more meritorious than the performance of a (positive) commandment with no intent.\u201d [Ie: (Shoftim 4:21) Yael seduced the enemy Sisera before she drove a spike through his head.]<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>D-E-ep Thoughts<\/strong><\/span>: We must always remember the purpose of our Mitzvos and Aveiros related actions. We are here to fulfil G-d\u2019s commandments, but they are instituted for us to be able to live the best physical and spiritual lives possible [while becoming closer to G-d]. A mother may give her oldest child cautionary rules for how to remain safe by not entering into a street (and would punish him if he disobeyed). But, if her baby crawled out into the middle of a street and the older brother darted out and saved the baby from oncoming traffic, she would be pleased with his actions. Since we are not able to honestly assess our actions as being filled with only the purest of intentions, we must make every effort to follow the \u2018safety rules\u2019 of our Father in Heaven.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAFETY FIRST [40a top] Rav Zevid to Rav Kahana: We only apply the principle of, \u201cAsei Doche lo Sa\u2019aseh\u201d (a positive commandment overrides a negative one), when there is no other choice in the matter [ie: circumcision with a Tzaraas (spiritual skin disease) affliction on the foreskin]. R\u2019 Rosner: There &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-kesuvos","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}