Words from the Caravans

Hey guys its avi lerer from bunk 39 I hope all you guys had a great week and here's my dvar torah for parshat ki tatzai which can relate to all of us. In perek 22 verse 1 it states " you must not see your brothers ox or sheep wandering astray and ignore them". One who finds a lost object is forbidden to act like he did not see it. Rather god commands him to bring the object into his rashut and anounce that an item has been found so that the person who lost it has a chance to find it. Chazal teach us however that in certain situations one is permitted to ignore a lost object. If a person who found an object is a talmud chachum chazal teach that it is unbefitting for him to pick it up and therefore he can bypass the object. R akiva Eiger was walking through the alleyways of warsaw trying to find the house of a relative who was considered a simple man. A man traveling with him said to him its not apropriate for one as distingushed as reb akiva to go and seek that specific relative. He asked rabbi akiva eiger are there not times when chazal exhort one to ignore and overlook things? rabbi akiva Eiger responded to him by saying there are two places in the torah were we encounter the concept of ignoring. The first one is founded in this eweeks parsha "and ignore them" regarding to return a lost object. And the second is in yeshayahu 58:7 where the verse states "and do not ignore yout kin". With rabbi akiva eigers answer we learn that for the exemption that chazal bring down of an elder or a talmud chachum to ignore something only applies to an object but it never applies to ignoring ones relative no matter how great you are or how simple they are. That's the dvar torah I hope you guys enjoy. This past week was a great week starting off with going fishing with my family for 4 hours and not catching anything but getting hooked onto the engine. On wednesday it was akivas birthday a buncha of us got together in dougies to celebrate it was alotta fun finally last night there was a bbq at my house honoring alex yudin and akiva lautman who was here and the week ended of with a great shuir from danish,chulent, and a great kumzits. Have a hreat shabbos everyone. Bunk 39