Rav Zachariash’s weekly blog on the parsha
The Same, Yet Different
...וְחֵי אָחִיךָ, עִמָּךְ (וַיִּקְרָא כה:לו) …Let your brother live with you (Vayikra 25:36). When the Torah tells us that a person is supposed to love his friend as himself, it uses the word “imach” meaning “together with you.” From this Rabbi Akiva learns (Bava Metzia 62A) that if a person has only one flask of [...]
