Asher Rochberger "The Torah on the Prohibition of Violence..."

Asher Rochberger "The Torah on the Prohibition of Violence..."

In the weekly chapter Shemot it is written that when Moshe saw Dotan and Aviram arguing with each other, he said to the wicked man: “Why do you hit your neighbor?” (2:13). RaSHI comments on this place “why do you hit him”, despite the fact that he did not hit him, but was called a wicked man for raising his hand.

According to the opinion given in the Mishna at the end of the tractate Kiddushin, the purpose of man's creation is "to serve his master." It follows that each organ of our body has a purpose for which it was created. According to the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Likutei Sichot, volume 31, page 5), the purpose of the hand's creation was its ability to give.

Therefore, when a person raises his hand against his fellow man, he uses it for a purpose contrary to that for which it was created. Thus, a person commits a serious offense in his relationship with the Creator, since he completely changes the purpose for which his hand was created.

Therefore, even at the moment when a person has not hit his neighbor, but only raised his hand against him, he is already called a villain, since he commits an offense against the Creator, even before he commits it against his neighbor.

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