{"id":260,"date":"2014-03-19T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2014-03-26T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:47:04","slug":"17-adar-ii-5774-31914-daf-44-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"17 Adar II, 5774 (3\/19\/14) &#8211; Sukkah#44 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #b51a00; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #b51a00; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tonight, 18 Adar II, is my brother <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nachie\u2019s <strong>Yartzeit<\/strong><\/span>.<br \/>\nPlease learn in his memory: <em>Menachem Tzvi ben Chaim Yitzchak<\/em>. His Neshama should have an aliyah.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Ovadia Yoseph<\/span> [in Yechave Daas, 3:48]: Our <em>Gemarah<\/em> mentions that we beat and bang the <em>aravos<\/em> on the ground. He quotes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Teshuvas HaGaonim<\/span>: The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Midrash<\/span> explains the <em>aravos<\/em> are representational of lips. From the New Year until now (on <em>Sukkos<\/em>) we are flooded with <em>mitzvos<\/em> and <em>Hoshana Raba<\/em> is the last of these days. We need to \u201cclose the mouth\/lips\u201d of anyone who might want to now come and harm us. Therefore, we beat them closed, and bang the lips\u2019 words down to the ground. We stop any harm from being uttered and any potential words that escaped should be worthless and fall to the ground instead of actualizing any negative potential.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>E\u2019s Lesson<\/strong><\/span>: Understand the POWER our speech has. G-d SAID \u201cLet there be light\u201d, and it WAS. Words are creation, as Hashem taught us from the beginning. The Chofetz Chaim devoted a majority of his life to teaching people about the terrible magnitude of Lashon Hara (evil speech). Think extremely carefully before you utter whimsical forces throughout reality, and speak them cautiously. Use speech as only a positive creative force in this world to be a \u2018partner in creation\u2019 of ultimate good.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, 18 Adar II, is my brother Nachie\u2019s Yartzeit. Please learn in his memory: Menachem Tzvi ben Chaim Yitzchak. His Neshama should have an aliyah. R\u2019 Ovadia Yoseph [in Yechave Daas, 3:48]: Our Gemarah mentions that we beat and bang the aravos on the ground. He quotes Teshuvas HaGaonim: The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-sukkah","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}