Articles tagged with: gossip
Metzora: Will Smith
![Metzora: Will Smith will-smith](https://www.innerstream.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/will-smith-150x150.jpg)
For more than a week, we have been hearing tales about Mr. Will Smith striking Mr. Chris Rock at the Oscars. What is the worst part of this tale, that it happened or that we have talked so much about it?
The name of our parshah is metzorah—one who contracts the …
Ki Tetze: It’s Not Yours
![Ki Tetze: It’s Not Yours not yours - innerstream.ca](https://www.innerstream.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/picking-fruit-150x150.jpg)
Eating Grapes
Did you know that by Jewish law you may pick fruit that is not yours so long as you eat them in the garden from which you’ve plucked them?
I’m not kidding, here is the relevant text. “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you …
Shelach Valor Of Discretion
![Shelach Valor Of Discretion stepping on others innerstream](https://www.innerstream.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/stepping-on-others-150x150.jpg)
The Shared Etrog
I came across a delightful story related by Dov Greenberg about Israeli Nobel Laureate and novelist S. Y. Agnon. Agnon encountered his neighbor, an elderly Rabbi, in a neighborhood Etrog store on the day before Sukkot. Jewish law ordains that Jews obtain an Etrog (citron fruit) before Sukkot …
K’doshim: Gossip can be Deadly
![K’doshim: Gossip can be Deadly gossip can be deadly innerstream](https://www.innerstream.ca/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/Gossip1-150x150.jpg)
Innocent Chatter
On a bus in Tel Aviv, an elderly woman could not help but overhear as two young ladies gossiped about a friend, who was engaged to be married. Giggling, they predicted that if her fiancé would only discover her faults, he would surely call off their engagement. The woman …