EIKEV 5778

VOLUME 17, ISSUE 39

PARSHAH INSIGHTS has reached the age of chinuch. (Rashi Berochos 20a)

Tosfos (Brochos ibid) asks on Rashi, if a father must teach his son You shall teach them (the mitzvas of Hashem) (11, 19) (when he has the ability to talk) to recite Shema, how could Rashi maintain that a child is exempt from reciting Shema? Women are not obligated to study . (Kidushin 29) The Vilna Gaon answers that the obligation of a father to teach How will women (zachyan) merit? By sending their husbands to his son to recite Shema is not to train him in the mitzva of Shema. learn and awaiting their return. (Berochos 17) It is to fulfill the father’s obligation of teaching his son to study Most commentators maintain that Chazal are referring to how Torah. One of the recommended first pesukim to be taught is women gain a portion in Olam Habo. Since women are obligated Shema. to adhere to all the negative commandments and to perform many

positive mitzvas, why are Chazal concerned with how women will merit Olam Habo? TABL E TALK

Rav Chaim Schmulevitz zt’l says that we learn from this Chazal PARSHA DILEMMA that the only way to enter Olam Habo is through the study of Torah. Since women are not obligated in the study of Torah, Chazal wanted to find a woman’s connection to so Your garments did not wear out while on you and your foot did that they can attain a portion in Olam Habo. Chazal answer that not swell, during these forty years. (Eikev 8, 4) by motivating their husbands to learn, it is considered as if they studied Torah and therefore, they can also enter Olam Habo. They did not swell like dough, in the manner of those who go barefoot, whose feet are swollen. (Rashi) Yonoson Eibshitz zt’l (Yaaros Devash Drush 1, 5b) answers that Chazal are discussing a different issue, not how women I led you for forty years in the wilderness; your garments did secure a portion in Olam Habo. The word zachyan can be not wear out while on you, and your shoe did not wear out from interpreted as ‘to be victorious.' Based on this interpretation, on your feet. (Ki Savo 29. 4) Chazal are discussing the issue of how women can overcome the evil inclination that incites people to sin. Hashem created Torah From the posuk in Eikev (according to Rashi) it seems that Bnai study as the antidote against the yetzer hora's inducement to sin Yisroel did not wear shoes in the desert. However, from the posuk (Kidushin 30b). If women are not obligated to study Torah, how in Ki Savo it appears that they wore shoes while they traveled in do they combat the yetzer hora’s provocations? Chazal answer the desert. How do we reconcile this seeming contradiction? that motivating and enabling others to study Torah is tantamount to studying. Since women send their husbands to learn, they also have the antidote to battle their yetzer hora. WHO AM I ?

1. I am not a press 2. I am not for weights 3. I am not an adjective for a dance 4. I am not Birkas Kohanim … to you children to speak in them… (11, 19) When a minor begins to speak, his father should teach him Torah Last week’s clues: Of me there are six, Really forty two, I taught and Shema. What is Torah? Rav says,the posuk of the love of mitzvos, I am found easily. “Torah Tziva Lonu Moshe” (V’zos Habrocho 33, 4). What is Answer: Ir Miklat Krias Shema? The first posuk of Shema. (Suka 42a) A minor is exempt from the mitzva of reciting Shema, even if he Congratulations to: Joseph Edelstein, Menachem Edelstein, MAZEL TOV TO MR. AND MRS. MOISH TOHN ON THE BIRTH OF A GIRL MAY THEY HAVE MUCH NACHAS SPONSORED BY MR. AND MRS. NATI KLEIN Asher Edelstein, Moshe Edelstein, Kleinman, Yerachmiel is no one that is poorer than one who does not have time for Torah Diamond, Lisa Adler Family and Friends study.”

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