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  • #2207075
    yechiell
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    Can someone explain to me why the Torah spends so much time on the neder of a girl aged 12 to 12 1/2 in this week’s parsha.
    Thank you.

    #2207106
    jackk
    Participant

    Yechiell,
    I will add that she is 12 to 12 1/2 and also married with Kiddushin but no Nisuin yet.
    And she is making Vows at this age.

    #2207115
    ujm
    Participant

    Why does this bother you? Is there a reason it should spend less time on it?

    #2207232
    jackk
    Participant

    ujm,

    It is a valid question to understand why the torah that teaches many halachos through an extra letter adds many pesukim for a specific case. The meforshim ask this question by the repeated 5 pesukim in Parsha Naso.

    #2207262
    yechiell
    Participant

    thank you jackk for being understanding.
    as for repetition of many pesukim, on a lighter note, it’s either because the word ‘ditto’ had not yet been invented , or they didn’t have ‘cut and paste’ in those years. just a joke, folks.

    #2207372
    125 st
    Participant

    Probably because back then every girl was in this exact situation

    #2207604
    spot on
    Participant

    Don’t make such jokes.

    The girl is a few pesukim worth. The actual question as to why the whole parsha of nedarim is so long, baalei mussar say to expound on the holiness of speech. (“Lo yacheil devaro”)

    #2207987
    yechiell
    Participant

    ze hayom oso Hashem, nogilo v’nismecho bo – that includes jokes

    #2208016

    This is the short time between her becoming bas mitzva and getting married! A unique moment when her father is less responsible for her and the husband is not yet. L’havdil, I think butterflies have also an intermediate state between being a catrpillar and an adult – chrysalis.

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