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טיעונים מעניינים בנושא, ראה כאן.

Dysphemism.

The deans of  a certain Yeshiva once came to Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach to ask if they could expel an unmarried student caught violating Shabbos. “Do you know about the financial situation in his home?” “No”, they replied. Rabbi Shach asked once more, “Do you know what the Shalom Bayis is like in his home?” Again, they said no. At this point the rabbi arose from his sick bed like a lion: Rodfim, get out of my house!

Yaakov valued prayer on Har Hamoriya (the Temple Mount).

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One of the reasons we are taught so many homilies (‘vorts’) on the Torah text is so as to ignore what it says most centrally. Some homilies are correct, and the point can be proven from the text elsewhere, but even these obscure the lesson to learn from the specific words being read at the time.

You don’t have to burn or censor a book if you teach people to read it the wrong way.