The real fear

The real fear The verses of the Torah this week part rule Bereishit 32:7-8: "The angels retued to Jacob, saying:" We have come to his brother Esau, and is coming toward you, and four hundred men with him. "Jacob became very frightened and was disturbed by what divides the people who were with him and the sheep and camels and cattle in two fields. "Yerucham Levovitz Rav, the great pre-World War II Mirren mashgiach enlightens us to the fact that Jacob was certainly not afraid in the same way you have fear, but fear that I may have sinned, and this in tu would lead to its destruction. Rashi makes this clear in the following verse: "I have become all the small details and all the truths that you have your audience, to my staff I crossed the Jordan, and now have become two camps. "(Bereishit - Chapter 32:11) Rashi says:" So I'm afraid of becoming stained by sin from the time you promised me, and that causes me to be delivered into the hands of Esau. "The expression" and four hundred men with him, "Jacob tells us that fear of sin, is equal to the natural fear that a person is a thief or an animal dangerous. For Jacob, the fear of sin is a reality and the only thing to fear. Bracho 5b in the Talmud has a story: Once a hundred or four bottles of wine belonging to R. Hunah acid. Scholars went to visit him and said: "The teacher must take into account for their actions." He told them: "I have a suspect in the eyes?" They said, "is the Holy One, blessed be He, to punish a suspect without justice? "He replied:" If anyone has heard of anything against me, let alone speak. "We heard that the master tenant does not share the vine twigs legal," he replied. "Can I leave any? He steals them all! "What countered. However, she replied, "That is exactly what the saying goes:" If a thief has to steal a taste of it! "" Then, he promised to give in the future. Some report that later became the new wine vinegar, others that rose so high that the vinegar was sold at the price of wine. The Lekach Tov asked why the wise do not investigate the natural reason for the wine tuing sour? It 'true that every time someone has the wrong reason because of sin? The answer is that not of natural causes! Everything that happens to use it is because of our merits or our sins. Our rabbis taught: In a place once was a lizard that used to harm people. They came and told R. Hanina b. Dosa. He said to them, to show his hole. Which has shown its hole, and put his heel over the hole, and the lizard came out and just him and died. He put on his back, and the Beth ha-Midrash, and said to them: Behold, my children, is the lizard that does not kill, that is sin that kills! On that occasion, he said: Woe to him who has a lizard, but woe to the lizard that R. Hanina b. Dosa cumple! (Gemara Bracho 33a) R. Ammi said: "There is no death without sin and no suffering without sin. (Gemara Shabbath 55th) This imposing and frightening idea can help us to new levels in our fear of Gd and fear of sin. A glossary of English terms can not be found on the World of the Yeshiva glossary.