Earning the Honor
Toras Avigdor | April 23, 2025
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Earning the Honor

Toras Avigdor | June 27, 2025

Now, you have to understand however that once you know of your aristocracy, then you have to live up to it. You have to behave accordingly. It’s not enough for a person to know that he is a Jew; he has to feel it in all of his behavior! He behaves like a Jew behaves. There are certain rules that aristocrats follow. And therefore the aristocratic Jews have certain chukei derech eretz that the Torah prescribes; and the aristocratic Jew lives with such a perfection of behavior that he earns the appellation, he earns the honor of being called “Son of the King”.

A Jew who understands why he eats kosher never thinks that by looking like a goy, by having a haircut like a goy or wearing Reeboks like a goy or wearing pants like a goy, jeans, whatever it is, that we’re doing something that makes us better. Chas v’shalom! We’re sinking into the mud! We’re drowning into the tzoah, in the filth of the umos ha’olam!

Now, you have to understand however that once you know of your aristocracy, then you have to live up to it. You have to behave accordingly. It’s not enough for a person to know that he is a Jew; he has to feel it in all of his behavior! He behaves like a Jew behaves. There are certain rules that aristocrats follow. And therefore the aristocratic Jews have certain chukei derech eretz that the Torah prescribes; and the aristocratic Jew lives with such a perfection of behavior that he earns the appellation, he earns the honor of being called “Son of the King”.

A Jew who understands why he eats kosher never thinks that by looking like a goy, by having a haircut like a goy or wearing Reeboks like a goy or wearing pants like a goy, jeans, whatever it is, that we’re doing something that makes us better. Chas v’shalom! We’re sinking into the mud! We’re drowning into the tzoah, in the filth of the umos ha’olam!

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