{"id":1881,"date":"2015-03-25T03:40:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:50:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:50:38","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%93-date-5-nisan-5775-32514-kesuvos51-tani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d3 Date: 5 Nisan, 5775 (3\/25\/15) \u2013 Kesuvos#51 {Tani}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">MEANINGFUL SILENCE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[51b middle] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shmuel&#8217;s father<\/span> heard an argument from Rav (to which he had a valid response), and he chose to remain silent. Rav cited the verse, [Iyov 29:9] &#8220;Ministers would withhold their words, and place their hands to their mouths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Prac-T-cal Tidbits<\/span><\/strong>: All too often, people are way too quick to respond emotionally. Many times, it is much wiser to choose to hold back and remain silent. Pirkei Avos explains, \u201cA fence for wisdom is silence.\u201d Words have ways of biting our tongues back, while causing stress in the moment and creating needs to apologize in the future. \u201cThere is no better trait than silence,\u201d and the GM\u2019 Megillah [18a] exclaims, \u201cA word is worth one coin, but silence is worth two.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEANINGFUL SILENCE [51b middle] Shmuel&#8217;s father heard an argument from Rav (to which he had a valid response), and he chose to remain silent. Rav cited the verse, [Iyov 29:9] &#8220;Ministers would withhold their words, and place their hands to their mouths.\u201d Prac-T-cal Tidbits: All too often, people are way &#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-1881","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\/1881","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=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}