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Teaching your children to love and honor others.
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How did Gedaliah die? A fellow Jew
turned him in to the enemy.
"By three things the world is sus-
tained," Avot 1:2 reads. "By the Torah,
the Temple service and deeds of lov-
ingkindness."
In honor of Tzom Gedaliah, local rab-
bis offer ideas on how parents can teach
their children the mitzvah of "love your
fellow."
tart on Interstate 75 and you
can go from the top of the
United States (northern
Michigan) to the bottom
(southern Florida). About half way
down 1-75, not too far from Atlanta,
you may catch sight of a billboard. It is a
letter from God.
"That 'Love Your Brother' thing. I
In The Beginning
meant that." [Signed] God.
rahavta l'rayach kamocha means
Schoolchildren learning about synonyms
"Love your fellow as yourself" and it's
often are given a piece of paper with two
not just a good idea or some interesting
columns of words. Their job is to draw a
quote to tape on the refrigerator next to
line from one matching word to the
a coffee coupon: It is a mitzvah, a corn-
other: big and
mandment. Yet what mitzvah could be
large, for example,
more challenging to observe.
or smart and intel-
Families who would be repelled at the
ligent.
very thought of a slice of cheese touch-
When Rabbi
ing a piece of meat, those who regularly
Daniel Syme of
give away thousands of dollars to
Temple Beth El
tzedakah, those who spend half their
hears the word
lives helping the homeless — all likely
"Jewish," he sees no
would be able to list more than a few of
synonym, no
their fellows who positively make their
"Reform move-
skin crawl. Love them? We don't even
ment" or
want to be in the same room with them.
"Conservative
Syme: A sense of Jewry" or
On Monday, Sept. 29, we observe
community.
Tzom Gedaliah. On the surface, this is
"Orthodox."
the story of the life and death of a right-
Instead, he sees in
eous man, whose passing so many years
Judaism bright and
ago we still remember by fasting.
diverse and beautiful beyond words: a
But Tzom Gedaliah also is a day when tapestry
we remember a fractured Jewish com-
"I am one who loves everything
munity, one marked by anger and fear, a Jewish," he says. 'As a dad myself, I have
time when vahavta Prayach kamocha was raised my son to understand that
forgotten.
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The day immediately following
Rosh Hashanah is Tzom Gedaliah.
This is one of four fasts which
begins at sunrise and ends at sun-
down (as opposed to Yom Kippur and
Tisha b'Av, which are 24-hour fasts).
Tzom Gedlaaih commemorates
the murder of Gedaliah ben
Achikam, governor of Israel in the
time of King Nebuchadnezzar of
Babylonia.
Nebuchadnezzar not only
attacked and destroyed much of
Israel (including the sacred Temple
sanctuary), he exiled virtually the
entire Jewish population there —
except a few, including the man he
appointed as governor, Gedaliah
ben Achikarn. A rival king ordered
the assassination of Gedaliah. His
h ired itrnan was Yishmael ben
Netaniah, a Jew.
In their decision to institute a fast
day in his memory, the rabbis said,
"the death of the righteous is likened
to the burning of the house of God."