Eruvin Page ChT - Knowing Human Limitations

By: Rabbi Lior Lavie

Rich said to Kish:
He who spits spit (saliva) before his rabbi is despised by him, and he must die for it by heaven, for it is said, "Every one who hates loves death" (Proverbs 8: 5) This spit.

And they wonder: And he is a rapist, for no man coughs and spits saliva except because of rape, and why would he consider it a crime?

And respondents: In such a case he should have gone out before his rabbi and spat outside.

More than once we hear allegations of vulgar or inappropriate behavior under the auspices of the claim that this is human nature and there is nothing to be ashamed of and hide.
But the prominence of the low side causes man to hate people and ultimately to darken the special divine light in man.
Such things should be done modestly, knowing the limitations of humanity.

This is how we will place the human figure on the light and the good in it.