Riddles of the Week

Limuday Moshe | June 27, 2025

Riddles of the Week

In this week’s parsha we are commanded: לא תתורו אחרי לבבכם ואחרי עיניכם – “You shall not stray after your hearts, or your eyes”.
The Yerushalmi (Berachos, end of Perek 1) teaches: ליבא ועינא תרי סרסורי דעבירה נינהו העין רואה והלב חומד – “The heart and the eyes are two partners that bring about sin, the eye sees and the heart desires”. We see that the way one comes to sin is that he initially sees, and then his heart starts to desire (see Rashi 15:39). If so, why does the Torah mention “straying after the heart” first, if sin starts with the eyes, surely the pasuk should write “Don’t stray after your eyes” first?
In the Torah, Yehoshua is referred to as Yehoshua “bin” Nun. Almost everyone else in the Torah is referred to as “ben” someone. Why the difference in respect to Yehoshua?
Is one allowed to go to sleep at night wearing tzitzis or is it perhaps a disgrace to the tzitzis to do so?
One of the traditional preparations for Shabbos is baking bread to perform the mitzvah (Bamidbar 15:19) of separating challah (Rema Orach Chaim 242). If a woman has a small family which is unable to consume a large amount of challos, is it preferable for her to bake a small number of challos each week to honor Shabbos on a weekly basis, or to periodically bake a large number of challos and freeze them to fulfill the mitzvah of separating challah?
Some say that if one hasn’t been to daven by the kever [grave] of his father or mother for a number of years he should no longer go back there to daven. If this is true, what is peshat in Calev who went to daven by kivrei Avos [graves of our forefathers], even though he hadn’t been there for many years?

(For answers see above)

Riddles of the Week

In this week’s parsha we are commanded: לא תתורו אחרי לבבכם ואחרי עיניכם – “You shall not stray after your hearts, or your eyes”.
The Yerushalmi (Berachos, end of Perek 1) teaches: ליבא ועינא תרי סרסורי דעבירה נינהו העין רואה והלב חומד – “The heart and the eyes are two partners that bring about sin, the eye sees and the heart desires”. We see that the way one comes to sin is that he initially sees, and then his heart starts to desire (see Rashi 15:39). If so, why does the Torah mention “straying after the heart” first, if sin starts with the eyes, surely the pasuk should write “Don’t stray after your eyes” first?
In the Torah, Yehoshua is referred to as Yehoshua “bin” Nun. Almost everyone else in the Torah is referred to as “ben” someone. Why the difference in respect to Yehoshua?
Is one allowed to go to sleep at night wearing tzitzis or is it perhaps a disgrace to the tzitzis to do so?
One of the traditional preparations for Shabbos is baking bread to perform the mitzvah (Bamidbar 15:19) of separating challah (Rema Orach Chaim 242). If a woman has a small family which is unable to consume a large amount of challos, is it preferable for her to bake a small number of challos each week to honor Shabbos on a weekly basis, or to periodically bake a large number of challos and freeze them to fulfill the mitzvah of separating challah?
Some say that if one hasn’t been to daven by the kever [grave] of his father or mother for a number of years he should no longer go back there to daven. If this is true, what is peshat in Calev who went to daven by kivrei Avos [graves of our forefathers], even though he hadn’t been there for many years?

(For answers see above)

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