Six years ago we started a different project: writing a weekly newsletter, whose objective was to share thoughts on the weekly Torah section and\/or on current events.<\/p>\n
This is relevant now because, in practice, the newsletter began in this very section, the parashah Emor. Beyond the circumstances that led to the newsletter's beginning at that specific time, as we have mentioned many times, all things in Judaism are interconnected, and we must draw a lesson in the service of God from what we hear and see.<\/p>\n
In this case, what is the relationship of the newsletter to the Emor section?<\/p>\n
The translation of emor is "to say." In Hebrew, there are several verbs that express the same idea of saying (such as leemor, ledaber, lehaguid), the difference lies in the manner of saying. Emor indicates a gentle and calm way of saying things.<\/p>\n
Hace un tiempo escuch\u00e9 una historia que me cont\u00f3 un rabino de otra ciudad: una vez se present\u00f3 una persona en la sinagoga, pidiendo hablar con el rabino. Al encontrarse, el rabino, con cortes\u00eda, le pregunt\u00f3 algunas informaciones, porque no la conoc\u00eda. El extra\u00f1o respondi\u00f3, y agreg\u00f3, que el rabino ya hab\u00eda entrado muchas veces en su casa… El rabino, sorprendido, dijo no recordar haber ido a su casa, a lo que la persona respondi\u00f3: \u00abUsted entr\u00f3 a mi casa por debajo de la puerta\u00bb. Sucede que, peri\u00f3dicamente, el rabino le enviaba folletos informativos a \u00e9sta persona, que eran introducidos por debajo de la puerta…<\/p>\n
Lo mismo ocurre con el bolet\u00edn semanal. Es una forma de \u00abentrar\u00bb en lugares impensados, en centenas de hogares (el bolet\u00edn lo reciben casi 700 personas…) y compartir Tor\u00e1. Pero no s\u00f3lo entrar, sino hacerlo en forma de \u00abEmor\u00bb, con suavidad, despacio, paso a paso, semana a semana, cada vez una idea, un concepto diferente, un intento de expresar la eternidad de la Tor\u00e1 y c\u00f3mo se aplican sus ense\u00f1anzas en todos los tiempos y todos los lugares.<\/p>\n
M\u00e1s a\u00fan, el padre de los comentaristas de la Tor\u00e1, Rashi, explica en su primer comentario de \u00e9sta parash\u00e1 el porqu\u00e9 de una expresi\u00f3n repetida, diciendo que la Tor\u00e1 inidica \u00abHacer diligentes (lehaz\u00edr en hebreo) los adultos sobre los ni\u00f1os\u00bb, o sea, que la Tor\u00e1 manda a los adultos a cuidar de la educaci\u00f3n de los ni\u00f1os.<\/p>\n
El concepto de adultos y ni\u00f1os (grandes y chicos, en las palabras literales de Rashi) se aplica tanto al respecto de la edad, como al respecto del conocimiento. En conexi\u00f3n a decir, y decir en forma suave, el objetivo del bolet\u00edn es ser mazhir – iluminar (de la misma ra\u00edz que lehaz\u00edr), un concepto de la Tor\u00e1 seg\u00fan las ense\u00f1anzas jas\u00eddicas y que eso a su vez ilumine los corazones y las mentes para crecer en forma personal, en nuestra relaci\u00f3n con los dem\u00e1s y con Di-s.<\/p>\n
May it be God's will that this little newsletter continue trying to illuminate even a little more this dark exile and, as our sages say, a little light dispels much darkness, so that we may finally reach the coming of our Righteous Messiah, speedily in our days.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six years ago, we began a different project: writing a weekly newsletter to share thoughts on the weekly Torah portion and\/or current events. This is relevant now because, in practice, the newsletter began with this very portion, the parashah Emor. Beyond that\u2026 Read More \u00bbSix years<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,67],"tags":[950,1010,979,969,944,988,942],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editoriales","category-emor","tag-di-s","tag-educacion","tag-judaismo","tag-parasha-2","tag-pensamiento","tag-rabino","tag-tora"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Seis.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/avatar1400.jpeg","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"castbox":{"key":"castbox","url":"","label":"CastBox","class":"castbox","icon":"castbox.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/en\/feed\/podcast\/rabino-tuvia-serber","embedCode":"Seis a\u00f1os<\/a><\/blockquote>