{"id":864,"date":"2014-06-02T17:48:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2014-06-18T17:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T17:50:18","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%91-date-4-sivan-5774-6214-roshhashana25-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d1 Date: 4 Sivan, 5774 (6\/2\/14) \u2013 RoshHashana#25 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ever-the-Optimist<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[25a top] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mishna<\/span>: R\u2019 Akiva saw that R\u2019 Yehoshua was distressed about following R\u2019 Gamliel\u2019s opinion, so he gave him an answer [about why he should be comfortable relying on the specific decree] in order to placate him.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Rosner<\/span>: R\u2019 Akiva throughout Gemarah is ever the optimist and cheering people up. He is the one laughing while the other Rabbis cry at the wolf in the ruins of the Beis Hamikdash [<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">end of GM\u2019 Makos<\/span>], and he is the one who started Torah teachings anew after all his students were killed.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">E\u2019s Lesson<\/span><\/strong>: We have a Mitzvah of \u201c\u05e2\u05d1\u05d3\u05d5 \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4&#8217; \u05d1\u05e9\u05de\u05d7\u05d4\u201d (serving G-d with joy). As long as we know that we are doing what Hashem wants, we should be infused with ecstasy. Things may be hard and times may be tough, but we must learn from R\u2019 Akiva to always view the glass half-full, be thankful for what we do have, and look to the future with hope and faith.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever-the-Optimist [25a top] Mishna: R\u2019 Akiva saw that R\u2019 Yehoshua was distressed about following R\u2019 Gamliel\u2019s opinion, so he gave him an answer [about why he should be comfortable relying on the specific decree] in order to placate him. R\u2019 Rosner: R\u2019 Akiva throughout Gemarah is ever the optimist 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":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-roshhashana","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}