Hay un dicho famoso (entre tantos otros) de nuestros sabios: \u00abembell\u00e9cete a ti mismo, y luego embellece a otros\u00bb (Talmud, Bava Metzia 107:B).<\/p>\n
The simplest explanation of this saying is that in order for a person to help another, they must first prepare themselves. This applies to both the material and spiritual aspects of life.<\/p>\n
In order for a teacher to teach his students, he must first study himself; in order for a doctor to cure a patient, he must first know medicine; in order for a person to lend money (without interest!) to another, he must first have money himself, etc.<\/p>\n
However, when one delves deeper into this saying, one can find other implications that elevate its meaning and leave us with practical and fundamental teachings of the Jewish vision of community life.<\/p>\n
1) The saying of our wise men is not simply good advice, as if to say that, in the eventual case that one is faced with the need to teach or influence another person in some way, one should first prepare oneself, but our wise men are giving us an order, so to speak, composed of two parts: 1) prepare yourself, 2) help others.<\/p>\n
In other words, while studying Torah is a very important mitzvah, our sages are saying: use it to teach others!, not just for your own enrichment.<\/p>\n
2) Nuestros sabios no mencionan niveles. Es decir, en ning\u00fan momento es un problema qu\u00e9 nivel debe tener el dador para poder influenciar sobre el receptor. De manera que se vuelve un mandato el dar a\u00fan cuando la persona no es un experto o no posee las mismas capacidades que otra. En t\u00e9rminos m\u00e1s simples, el hecho de no ser el Maestro absoluto de un tema, no puede ser excusa para no ense\u00f1ar sobre el mismo, como el Rebe sol\u00eda decir, que si uno sabe Alef, puede ense\u00f1ar a otra persona que no sabe ni siquiera lo que es una Alef…<\/p>\n
3) Nuestros sabios dicen \u00abembellece a otros\u00bb, en plural. La persona nunca debe estar conforme con haber ayudado a otro individuo, siempre debe buscar la oportunidad de ayudar a m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n
En otro contexto ser\u00eda la idea de que uno no debe servir a Di-s con la actitud de \u00bfcu\u00e1l es mi obligaci\u00f3n y la cumplir\u00e9?, como buscando la forma de \u00abterminar\u00bb con el servicio a Di-s para poder dedicarse a otra cosa, sino que la actitud debe ser la de \u00abperseguir\u00bb el cumplimiento de Mitzvot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hay un dicho famoso (entre tantos otros) de nuestros sabios: \u00abembell\u00e9cete a ti mismo, y luego embellece a otros\u00bb (Talmud, Bava Metzia 107:B). La explicaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s sencilla de este dicho es que para que una persona pueda ayudar a otra, debe primero prepararse a s\u00ed misma. Esto se aplica tanto en los aspectos materiales de… Read More \u00bbBeautify yourself<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[950,956,945,943,1026,942],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editoriales","tag-di-s","tag-estudio","tag-mitzva","tag-rebe","tag-talmud-2","tag-tora"],"episode_featured_image":false,"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":"Embell\u00e9cete<\/a><\/blockquote>