And Hashem came down onto Mt. Sinai...and Moshe went up to the mountain. Hashem came down and Moshe went up Rabbi Friefeld teaches that Hashem brought His Torah down into man amd man was thereby elevated.
Yerushalmi Bava Metziah Chapter 2 Halacha 5
Shimon ben Shetach worked with flax. His students bought him a donkey. They found on the donkey a neckless with a precious stone on it. They told him you will never have to work again. he said "did the owner know he sold it?" They said "no" He said "then return it" They countered "although one may not cheat a gentile keeping a lost object is permitted" He said "do you think I am a common person who wants to make money. having gentiles praise Hashem is worth more to me than all of the money in the world". Shomon ben SHetach derived this from another episode where the sages burchased grain and found a sack of money in the grain pile and returned it. the soldiers they returned it to said "blessed is the G-d of the Jews". R' Shimshon Pincus asks why didn't they praise the one who returned it to them why did they praise HaShem? He answers that they understood that no man would come to such exemplary conduct on his own it could only be through Hashem. That is the value of having a Torah.
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ReplyDeleteI was hoping that you would have posted Erev Yom Tov just as you post on Erev Shabbos and then edit on Motzei. This way I could have had you for Yom Tov.
Anyway, did I ever tell you that Rabbi Freifeld's first wife was my aunt? Thanks for the vort!