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Respecting Elders - R. Yaakov Mizrahi - TorahAnytime.com

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Rabbi Shalom, he says, "Why do we have to respect an elderly gentleman, an elderly lady, a lady that's 70 years old, a man that's 70 years old? You have to stand up for them." Why? Because they're init? No. Maybe they're not because they finished all the No, maybe they didn't. Because they know the No, maybe they didn't also. So why do I have to stand up? Because a 70-y old gentleman passed by. Why have to stand up for him? I understand the rabbi. I stand up for the rabbi. However, man at 70. Why should I stand up? Because Haz is fragile and he's old, so I should stand up. What are you talking about? Some of them they're young and energetic more than 30 year olds. They're going and they're everything is great. So why do I have to stand up? It's out of uh he's old. No, he's not old. Some 70-y olds are young. So some people have been very young. And Rabbi Miller says, you know why you have to pay you have to stand up in a way for that 70-year-old? Only because of one unbelievable reason. Because he went through more Shabbat in his life. He went through 53 years 57 years of Shabbat on his bum mitzvah till now. Every Shabbat changed him. And you have to give him coupled with you got to give him respect because of that Shabbat.