Weekly: "Pinchas"


Closely MIDYANITYAN And Razi, FOR YOU brought on trouble when tempt you to Peoria HSC, the daughter of Prince Midian (Bamidbar, 25:17, 18)


The Midrash notes that commandment prescribes punishment midyanityan that to sin Jewish people, but it is forbidden to hate the Egyptians - while they were trying to destroy the people of Israel. Hence the sages conclude: encourage someone to sin - worse than kill him.


Reb Yona Emanuel from Jerusalem said: "Tisha B'Av nineteen forty-four, in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen to anyone not given food or small children or sick or elderly. Despite the cruel decree, my mother cooked porridge for my little sister Batya three and a half years. Two Kapos (Jewish camp guards) caught it and brought to trial. The Court made a Friday night, on the Sabbath Nechama ( "Shabbat of comfort" - after Tisha B 'Av). In Bergen-Belsen capo arranged courts, where the accused was his lawyer and spoke in his own defense.

The trial was very short, and the punishment was deprivation of food for two days. My mother gave up the right to speak and did not say anything. I asked her why she did not argue and said that on that day there was no food, and it can not starve a small child, because she say about these circumstances, they would give her a lighter penalty.

- It was the Sabbath, - said his mother, - and wrote down every word Jew. So I said nothing. It is better to go hungry than to make another Jew to violate the Sabbath "(Shabbat Likvod).


Source: Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, "If you want to live with dignity» toldot.ru Courtesy translator and publisher of Gedaliah Spinadelya, publ Am Asefer.