When Fulfilling One Commandment Violates Another

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You have to help them in any way that they need, and whatever they need is really up to, you know, their feelings at the time. So, you can see how almost any commandment can be violated, can contradict the mitzvah of honoring one's parents. So, here again, when it comes to mitzvah of honoring parents, the oral tradition is once again very clear. That we do not honor parents when they are asking us to transgress another commandment. So, if your parent asks you commandment. So, if your parent asks you to help them steal, the answer is sorry, I cannot help you with that. I would Well, I don't know if you even want to say I would love to help you, but I'd love to help you with other things, but I cannot help you with that. Um and the same would be if it's Shabbos violation, or they say, "Please come um eat my uh the food I prepared, which is not kosher." Um or whatever else it might be. Um if your parent uh wants you to honor them by um transgressing to honor them by um transgressing another commandment, we never honor our parents by transgressing another commandment. Um and um the reason for this is And the Torah, we learn this from the fact that the Torah says um to respect your parents, but keep Shabbat. The but keep Shabbat teaches you that but make sure you keep all the other commandments first. The reason is because your parents are also obligated to follow Hashem's commandments. Not only are they

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