Shalom. This video is number three in our minister series. This one has to do with another version of genesis. The verse takes place in a story where Jacob is about to meet his brother Asob and he nervous, so he separates himself from everybody else in his party and the night he has wrestling match with this figure. I talked about this in another video. Any case, the end of that story, his hip is wrenched and his name is change to Israel by this being. Some people think he is wrestling himself, some people think he is wrestling an angel of Asob, nobody is really sure, Turk does not say. Any case, it says at the end there, in genesis 32:33.
Therefore, the children of Israel are not to eat the five muscle of the hip socket. And therefore to this day, we do not. Ashkenazi butchers had never purge the sciatic nerve and so we would simply chop off, they do with it the hind quarter of the cow and send to the non couture butchers. So Ashkenazi butchers do not get sirloin or t bone or that part of the cow because of that verse. Outrages butchers I believe do purge the sciatic nerve and therefore can get those cuts of meat that are couture.
Now, what is this all about? Why would we do this? The Turk does not say why other that obviously to remind us of that story. So what is the point of that story? And as various views. First of all, mimorities rejects the idea that this is to remind us in any way of the ancestors and he simply says we do it because God commanded but there are other commentators who did give reasons. For example, Swerno, this medieval exegete said, basically the symbolic significance of the medieval is to show that a Jew must not allow physical handicap to discourage him in his fight for survival. And there is an inspiring idea about when you do not eat from the hollow of the thigh to remind us that whatever our physical imperfection should not let us hold us back.
Of course there are amazing stories of people with unbelievable physical challenges who do so much. In fact, the mere times, you have ideas December 2007. I have this story where people did studies who are told that they have no hope about ever getting better. They actually do better than people who have given false hope and they are discouraged. The people that are told they can never get better from their condition adjust to it psychologically better and you can see all the people that do so well. The amend _____0229 spoke and try to understand the medieval so that symbolic of Israel survival, just as Jacob faced the dangerous flow and emerge victorious.
Through the ages, the Jews have survived event the most devastating ounce lots of enemies. And just to give you a sense of how dramatic that is. The Jew alive today constitutes about two percent of the Jews that should be here. They should about seven hundred millions Jews. there is about 14 million because of repeated average to exterminate Jews.
According to other commentators, a Jew must not only keep up his spirits in the face of a physical defect, he must compensate for his handicap by cultivating a spiritual potential. And then there is another commentator named Hasitono. He said that Joseph was left by himself, so the reason why he believes we have this medieval is to remind us we must never permit a fellow Jew to feel he is alone in the world. And we have this concept call Israelites a vin savasel. All Israelites responsible one for another. Therefore one people one family, we have to take care of each other. And that explains the extraordinary contributions, in Sadacus system charity that choose to helping needy Jews. Had to say we should nail the rest of the world, the Jews are amazingly, not everyone of course but for capita amazingly generous for general so that could cause us but this one also talks about responsibility to fellow Jews, cause if we do not loose blanks, nobody will.
And then you have the commentator Alshek, he says, that the reason he have this was because he had married two sisters. Rachel and Lea, even though the law prohibiting that had no been given yet, this shows, he said, that even the saintly Jacob was not immune from sin. Accordingly, he says we should mend our ways and keep fire from evil.
You can see all this different reasons every time we donate a sirloin steak or t bone, cause it is not culture based on this verse, even if the cow that it came from be couture, this are the reasons. And again, I believe Israelites butchers do have this. So that it is possible you are not part of a community you cannot but Amenite Ashkenazi butchers do not. Shalom.
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