{"id":2570,"date":"2015-12-27T01:18:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T01:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2016-01-01T01:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T01:19:40","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%90-date-15-teves-5776-122715-gittin-daf-14-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d0 Date: 15 Teves, 5776 (12\/27\/15) \u2013 Gittin Daf 14 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">COMBATIVE CONFRONTATIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[14b top] <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R\u2019 Achi ben R\u2019 Yoshiyah<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> asked R\u2019 Dustai ben R\u2019 Yannai and R\u2019 Yosi ben Kippeir, to bring him back a silver vessel that he had deposited with custodians in Nehardea. After obtaining it, the Rabbis refused to accept their own responsibility for the item (and not exempt the custodians). After R\u2019 Yosi refused to return the item to them, the custodians started beating him up. When asked what R\u2019 Dustai was going to do about it, he responded, \u201cPunch him even harder!\u201d Upon their return, R\u2019 Achi ben R\u2019 Yoshiyah explained that R\u2019 Dustai \u201cacted properly\u201d (as he was fearful for his own life).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>D-E-ep Thoughts<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: We have to be realists and understand that we cannot always be the \u201cSupermen\u201d to save the day. If we recognize that in a specific scenario our efforts are futile, we should not waste more time and energy on them (and move on to a new approach or avenue). But, whenever there is a slight true possibility of success, we may not be pessimists. We have to do the work just give G-d a pinhole opening for Him to flood a dark area with His brilliant light.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMBATIVE CONFRONTATIONS [14b top] R\u2019 Achi ben R\u2019 Yoshiyah asked R\u2019 Dustai ben R\u2019 Yannai and R\u2019 Yosi ben Kippeir, to bring him back a silver vessel that he had deposited with custodians in Nehardea. After obtaining it, the Rabbis refused to accept their own responsibility for the item (and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-gittin","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","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=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}