{"id":2436,"date":"2015-10-31T15:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2015-11-15T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T15:12:04","slug":"%d7%a9%d7%91%d7%aa-date-18-cheshvan-5776-103114-sotah5-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=2436","title":{"rendered":"\u05e9\u05d1\u05ea Date: 18 Cheshvan, 5776 (10\/31\/14) \u2013 Sotah#5 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">STATUS SEPARATIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[5a middle] <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R\u2019 Avira (some say R\u2019 Elazar)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: High status people only relate to others in their elevated circles (and ignore those of lesser classes). But Hashem (even though infinitely great) concerns Himself with all those downtrodden.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baalei Mussar<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: In Aleinu we say <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBashamayim Mema\u2019al\u201d<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to spirituality, we should always be looking up (to what more we can accomplish and still have yet to learn). <em>\u201c<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vi\u2019al Ha\u2019aretz Mitachas\u201d<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; For <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gashmiyus<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (physical acquisitions), we should look below us (to see how much we are truly blessed with compared to others who have much less). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>D-E-ep Thoughts <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(based on R\u2019 Rosner)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Our \u2018natural\u2019 reactions are very much the opposite of what our sages teach we must be striving for. So many people pride themselves in what they have already accomplished spiritually (and use these thoughts to rationalize slacking off even more), while they have a never-ending desire to continually acquire more money and expensive possessions. We have to constantly battle against \u2018instinctive\u2019 thinking. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STATUS SEPARATIONS [5a middle] R\u2019 Avira (some say R\u2019 Elazar): High status people only relate to others in their elevated circles (and ignore those of lesser classes). But Hashem (even though infinitely great) concerns Himself with all those downtrodden. Baalei Mussar: In Aleinu we say \u201cBashamayim Mema\u2019al\u201d &#8211; When it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemara-sotah","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","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=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}