<div dir="ltr">In continuation of the topic of kibud av ve-em<div><br></div><div>from yevamot 22b that there is ni issur to curse a wicked father</div><div>rambam hilchot mamrim explains that this applies only the punishment</div><div>the Tur disagrees and says that one must honor a wicked father only if he does teshuva</div><div>others distinguish and say that one must honor a wicked father only while he is alive</div><div><br></div><div>see YD 240 where it is a disagreement between the mechaber and Ramah. The Ramah paskens like the Tur, Mordechai, Rabbenu Tam and Haghaos Mordechai that one need honor a wicked father only if he does teshuva</div><div><br></div><div>R Zilberstein brings the Zecher Shlomo (Lech Lecha) and the Chida (Devash Le-phi 1:39) that therefore Avraham owed no honor to his father Terach once Terach handed him over to Nimrod.</div><div><br></div><div>R Zilberstein further brought the Maharam Shick that one who is involved (metapel) in a mitzvah is the owner of the mitzvah and whoever works and establishes a mitzvah is the one to make the arrangements. Thus the one who actively rears the child is the "owner" of the child and gets to make the decisions and not the biological parent who is not around.</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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