This week we read the double portion of Achrey Mot and Kedoshim. These two portions are filled with laws including laws about eating meat, observing Yom Kippur, tzedakah and loving your neighbor as yourself. Included among these laws is the command: "You shall each fear your mother and your father." Earlier, in the ten commandments, the Torah says, "Honor your father and your mother."
What is the difference between fearing and honoring your parents? Why are they both important? Why is the order of the mother and father different in the two verses?
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The difference is that honoring your parents means you admire them, but fearing them means you show them respect.
ReplyDeleteTo fear is commonly used for a word in the place of scared. Though fear is much like being scared, it is not the same. Like we fear Hashem. But we love him, right? Fearing is different. You can fear and love at the same time. Fear is a sort of respect. When you fear someone, do you cut across them or try to get on their nerves? No. You respect them. So therefore, fear and love are sort of the same thing, but the love is more of a care. You try to talk to them and try to be noticed by your loved ones. So, therefore, I believe that Hashem means that we should fear are parents for being superior, but love them for being our parents.
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I think it is because You shall fear your mother more than your father because a child would probably annoy a mother before a father that is why it is in the order. It says honor your father because a kid honors a mother more.
ReplyDeleteFear is when you're scared and honoring is when you appreciate. They're both important becuase everyone has fear and you should always honor your parents and everyone else in the world.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between fearing and honoring your parents is that if you fear your parents you wont be able to focus or help and if you honor you parents you wont be scared all the time and your friends will hang out with you. They are both important because they both help you out in different ways.
ReplyDeleteHonoring your parents and fearing your parents are two very different things, but are both important. Honoring your parents means respecting them and looking up to them. Fearing your parents is different. To fear your parents means to respect them and obey them. They are both important because our parents do everything for us and have given us all we need.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between fearing and honoring your parents is to honor them is to acknowledge them, but to fear them it is to really respect them. They're both important because they both are a great way to feel about your parents. The order is different because the mother and father each have extremely different jobs in each verse.
ReplyDeleteThe Torah is trying to tell us that you must love your mother and father like you fear Hashem, but you must also love them like you love Hashem. You must fear your father and mother because if you do not, you can't love them, because you know no fear, and you can't appreciate your clothing, and what you have. This is how we love our parents, no?
ReplyDeleteThe order however, means an entire different thing. I think this means that both your parents are equally holy, and that you must honor both your father and mother, and fear them at the same time.