REMEMBERING TORAH; REMEMBERUNG FRIENDS

REMEMBERING TORAH; REMEMBERUNG FRIENDS

תלמודבבלי מסכת ברכות דף לא עמוד א

וכן תנא מרי בר בריה דרב הונא בריה דרבי ירמיה בר אבא:

אל יפטר אדם מחבירו אלא מתוך דבר הלכה, שמתוך כך זוכרהו.

so Mari, the grandson of Rav Huna, son of Rabbi Yirmeya bar Abba, taughtin a baraita: One should only take leave of another from involvement in amatter of halakha, so that, consequently, he will remember him [or: rememberit].

Isthe goal:

That I remember my friend. Or.

That I remember the halacha

Compare,possibly, with Rebbe Zaira standing for Torah scholars when he was too exhaustedto learn, also, perhaps,  with mitzvah ofteaching one’s children  = as a pretext forestablishing and reinforcing and enhancing the relationship.

Tie in with essay entitles Bookends: iuda9sminsists that we maintain a dialectic between  Halacha’s insistence that we recognizethe Divine in interpersonal relationships, and, on the other hand, that we neverallow our relationship with Hashem to trivialize or reduce the significance ofour interpersonal relationships.