{"id":936,"date":"2014-08-20T04:52:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T04:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2014-08-26T04:52:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T04:52:44","slug":"%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%93-date-24-av-5774-82014-moedkatan9-tani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d3 Date: 24 Av, 5774 (8\/20\/14) \u2013 MoedKatan#9 {Tani}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TO DO or NOT TO DO? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[9a bottom] <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">(R\u2019 Shimon ben Yochai\u2019s son heard) R\u2019 Yonasan ben Asmai and R\u2019 Yehudah ben Geirim discussing<\/span>: One verse states to analyze Mitzvos [Rashi: which ones are bigger vs. smaller and do the greater ones], and another verse says just to do the one immediately present at a moment in time (without analyzing its value). Therefore, if OTHERS are able to do the smaller good deeds, one should take on the greater one him\/herself, but if only one individual is available, the most immediate Mitzvah should be addressed.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>T&#8217;s Lesson<\/strong><\/span>: Many times we leave over actions for others to take care of when we should really do them ourselves. &#8220;Why should I do it? I\u2019m sure someone else will!&#8221; All too often, the end result may very well be that no one does it. Especially when it comes to Mitzvos that people feel are &#8220;beneath their dignity,&#8221; (ie: a dirty Mitzvah like burying the dead) we should remember that if great sages do it, how much more so should we.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO DO or NOT TO DO? [9a bottom] (R\u2019 Shimon ben Yochai\u2019s son heard) R\u2019 Yonasan ben Asmai and R\u2019 Yehudah ben Geirim discussing: One verse states to analyze Mitzvos [Rashi: which ones are bigger vs. smaller and do the greater ones], and another verse says just to do the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-moedkatan","category-l4l-by-tani","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}