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Daily Chizuk #1122
Weekly Parasha
Worthy of Realizing: Understanding the Process of Needs
The Protection Of Modesty
The pasuk says in parashat Ki Tetzeh, כי ה' אלוקיך מתהלך בקרב מחניך להצילך מכל אויבך – That Hashem dwells amongst us and protects us from our enemies. But there is one condition – והיה מחניך קדוש – that our camp has to be holy, which is accomplished by adhering to the laws of modesty. The Maharal explains that modesty, which is an act of concealment and protection, brings a person protection mida kineged mida. The Midrash Tanchuma in parashat Vayishlach says that modesty brings kapara the same way offering korbanot on the mizbe’ach in the Bet HaMikdash did. On the last Yom Kippur of the Chofetz Chaim’s life, in his weakened condition, he stood up and spoke for a full hour, in his shul, about the importance of modesty and told the people how much closeness it brings them to Hashem and how much atonement is provides for them.
The pasuk says in parashat Ki Tetzeh, כי ה' אלוקיך מתהלך בקרב מחניך להצילך מכל אויבך – That Hashem dwells amongst us and protects us from our enemies. But there is one condition – והיה מחניך קדוש – that our camp has to be holy, which is accomplished by adhering to the laws of modesty. The Maharal explains that modesty, which is an act of concealment and protection, brings a person protection mida kineged mida. The Midrash Tanchuma in parashat Vayishlach says that modesty brings kapara the same way offering korbanot on the mizbe’ach in the Bet HaMikdash did. On the last Yom Kippur of the Chofetz Chaim’s life, in his weakened condition, he stood up and spoke for a full hour, in his shul, about the importance of modesty and told the people how much closeness it brings them to Hashem and how much atonement is provides for them.
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