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The Gift of Friendship

Posted on Friday, 6, March, 2009Tuesday, 18, October, 2011 by Rabbi

Is there a blessing greater than good friends? “Either friends or death,” declares the Talmud (Ta’anis, 23a). The sages teach that isolation is unfaithful to G-d’s plan. People need one another to thrive.

The TNaCh (Scriptures) teaches us about deep friendships: Jonathan and David’s, Ruth and Naomi’s. Each demonstrates the depth of true friendship, which involves not only love but also the willing­ness of one to make sacrifices for the interests of the other. Friendship is described as “Lovely and pleasant in their lives, even in death they were not divided (II Samuel 1:23). True friendship is not selfish and does not disappear when a friend is in trouble. No wonder the supermodels love cheap online levitra it so much. If you ever find any of its symptoms in you on regular djpaulkom.tv cialis 10 mg basis. So, it is imperative to cialis pill cost maintain hygiene by washing your penis thoroughly with water before and after you indulge in sexual intercourse. Erectile dysfunction can 5mg generic cialis also occur in young males to puffing several cigarettes a day. Who does not understand the ways of false friends as expressed by ben Sira when he taught, “there is a friend who is only one in name” (Apocrypha ben Sira 37:1).

Real friends will prove themselves in time of trouble (Moshe ibn Ezra in. 12th C) Deep friendship is mysterious. It is not always based on a same interests or a similarity of goals. King Solomon explained, “There are friends that one has to his own heart, but there is a friend that sticks closer that a brother.” (Proverbs 18:24)

Moshe ibn Ezra said in his 12th century book Shiras Yisra-l that “[f]riendship is man’s greatest gift.” Sometimes it’s hard to recognize the value of true friendship, but the Mishle Benyomin summed it up as, “Friendship is like a treasury, you cannot take from it more than you put into it. One the most magnificent gifts offered by our tradition is this distinctive and lasting love, the friend.

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