Many years ago, I visited a very fine Orthodox family for the Shabbatdaytime seudah.
Something happened there that surprised me.
[2] VeAhabta LeReacha Camocha
[3] the obligation of hearing Kiddush
[4] unnecessarily delaying a mitzvah
[5] Torah law obligates guests to obey their hosts
When the father or host is singing [a zemer], the best Derech Eretz is for the children and guests to help him sing by singing along with him.
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Something happened there that surprised me.
When the mother summoned her children to the table to hear kiddush, she had to ask them nine (9) times until they finally complied with her request!
Since I was merely a guest, I just kept my mouth shut and never spoke about it; but it made a very bad impression on my mind, and I still remember it more than ten years later.
This incident violated several Torah principles:
[1] honoring parents[2] VeAhabta LeReacha Camocha
[3] the obligation of hearing Kiddush
[4] unnecessarily delaying a mitzvah
[5] Torah law obligates guests to obey their hosts
This incident was especially upsetting to me because complying with the mother’s request was so easy: there was no monetary expense, no distance to travel, no need to learn a new skill, and no need to endure pain. I wondered: If this is how slow they are to perform an extremely easy mitzvah, then how slow would they be to perform a difficult mitzvah?
When the mother (or father or host or hostess) summons the people of the house to the table to hear kiddush, every Jew in the house should comply IMMEDIATELY,without needing to be asked a fourth time or a third time or even a second time.
Similarly, when the mother (or father or host or hostess) summons the people of the house to the table to wash their hands, every Jew in the house should comply IMMEDIATELY, without needing to be asked a fourth time or a third time or even a second time.
____________________________________________________When the father or host is singing [a zemer], the best Derech Eretz is for the children and guests to help him sing by singing along with him.
The second-best Derech Eretz is for the children and guests to remain silent and listen while the father or host is singing.
The third-best Derech Eretz is for the children and guests to speak to each other in low voices that are not loud enough to interfere with the singing of the father or host.
The worst Derech Eretz is for the children or guests to speak to each other in loud voices that interfere with the singing of the father or host.
____________________________________________________“One [New York] Times opinion editor, Matt Seaton, even admitted last year [2014 CE] that the newspaper has a policy of veering away from criticism of Palestinians.”
SOURCE:
Final sentence of article titled: “New York Times Editor: Coverage of Israel Most Criticized Aspect of Opinion Pages” by Shiryn Ghermezian, 2015 October 14, found in: The Algemeiner.www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/14/new-york-times-editor-coverage-of-israel-most-criticized-aspect-of-opinion-pages/
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PAT CONDELL SAID:
“Like all things Islamic, the Palestinians long-been have been officially above criticism in the West…”SOURCE:
Useful idiots for Palestine by Pat Condell, 2011 November 4 (available for free on YouTube)MICROBIOGRAPHY:
Pat Condell is an atheist, who was born in Ireland around 1950 CE, and raised in England as a Roman Catholic, and educated in Church of England schools. He has no Jewish ancestors and no religious beliefs that might cause him to favor Jews.____________________________________________________
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