{"id":11132,"date":"2019-05-23T21:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T01:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/?p=11132"},"modified":"2019-05-23T21:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T01:03:21","slug":"message-from-moreh-greg-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/news-views\/blog\/message-from-moreh-greg-38","title":{"rendered":"Message from Moreh Greg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we read Parshat Behar.\u00a0Our middah is &#8220;Help others feel respected.&#8221;\u00a0The middah is derived from a verse that states: &#8220;If your fellow person falters, or their strength is diminished\u00a0<em>with you<\/em>, you must bolster this person &#8212; both stranger and resident &#8212; to live\u00a0<em>with you<\/em>. The verse teaches us more than the importance of helping those in need.\u00a0It emphasizes that the person in need is one who is &#8220;with you,\u201d and you must help him or her in order to be able to live &#8220;with you.&#8221; This is true whether the person is \u201cachikha\u201d \u2013 your brethren, or a stranger or resident in your land.\u00a0Our dignity is affected when we struggle physically, emotionally or spiritually.\u00a0We suffer even more when our struggles separate us from the community in some way.\u00a0To help someone &#8220;live with you,&#8221; means to help a person be a full participant in our community, despite his or her struggle.<\/p>\n<p>This Shabbat, may we all find ways to strengthen those in need, so that they can &#8220;live with us,&#8221; as full members of our community.<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat Shalom,<\/p>\n<p>Moreh Greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we read Parshat Behar.\u00a0Our middah is &#8220;Help others feel respected.&#8221;\u00a0The middah is derived from a verse that states: &#8220;If your fellow person falters, or their strength is diminished\u00a0with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - 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