Saturday 8 February 2014

Mussar: Treat Your Spouse as Yourself

From Derech Emet -

Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky taught:
 
A person by nature does not
think about his own faults.  

[So] 
He must think similarly of his wife
that she is the nicest, smartest,
beautiful, and perfect woman in the world. 
 
And she should have the same
thoughts for her husband.
 
[I understand this to mean that
since one tends to not find one's own faults
therefore one should treat one's spouse as faultless, too.]


CHRONOLOGY:
Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzsky was a leading Orthodox Rabbi,
born in Lithuania in 1891 CE,
died in USA in 1986 CE.
 
SOURCE:
Flatbush Hakhel Event Emphasizes the Importance of a Partnership by Daniel Keren,
The Flatbush Jewish Journal,
2014 January 16, page 58


Kol Tuv,
RRW

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