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âWe donât say âpunishmentâ in this house. We say âconsequence.ââ
Iâve heard a version of this sentence uttered so many times over the past decade that Iâve lost count. But Judaism doesnât talk of
sâchar vetotzaâot (reward and consequences). It talks of
sâchar vâoneish (reward and punishment).
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Undoubtedly, many believe that our children must be protected against concepts like âpunishment.â Influenced by modern psychology, they fear that their children wonât be able to handle such a âharshâ word. ....
Haftarah of Shabbos Shirah, Deborah, and Barak sing G-dâs praises for delivering the Canaanite general Sisera into their hands. Towards the end of the shirah, they say, in reference to Siseraâs mother anxiously anticipating her sonâs triumphant return: âShe gazed through the window ( chalon) and she sobbed; Siseraâs mother [peeked] through the window ( eshnav)â (Judges 5:28). This verse contains two words for window: â chalonâ and â Advertisement Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim of Breslau (1740-1814) traces the etymology of â chalonâ (which appears 31 times in the Bible) to the two-letter root chet-lammed, which means circular movement and the empty space within a circle. Other words that derive from this root, says Rabbi Pappenheim, include: ....