Clarification: The Yerushalmi Darshens "me'Honanach like 'me'Chonach'.

Inference: This implies that Hakadosh-Baruch-Hu is more particular about Kibud Av va'Eim than He is about His own Kavod ...

Inference (cont.): ... since by His Kavod, He says 'Kabeid es Hash-m me'Honach" - 'me'Chonach', implying 'from what He graced you' ...

Explanation: ... meaning that if you have money, you are Chayav, otherwise, not ...

Explanation (cont.): ... whereas by Kibud Av va'Eim the Torah says "Kabeid es Avicha ve'es Imecha", implying whether one has money or not ...

Conclusion: If he doesn't have, then he is obligated to go from door to door to sustain his father and mother (See Masores ha'Shas).

Clarification: This speaks where he is able to overcome his Yeitzer ha'Ra, as is evident in Chagigah (Daf 16a).

Clarification: The Yerushalmi explains that his feet were stretched on top of the box, which explains why he (Dama ben Nesinah) did not break it open.

Reason: The reason that the one who is commanded is greater is because he worries and is more anxious that he may transgress more than someone who does not have a Mitzvah ...

Reason (cont.): ... who has 'his bread in his basket', seeing as he can desist at will.

Halachah: Rabeinu Tam learns from here that women can recite a B'rachah over a Mitzvas Asei that is time-bound ...

Implied Question: ... even though they are completely Patur from performing it, and are not Chayav even mi'de'Rabbanan, as is evident in Perek Mi she'Meiso (B'rachos, Daf 20b) ...

Answer: ... nevertheless, they are permitted to recite a B'rachah, and are not subject to the La'av of "Lo Sissa ... ", which entails reciting an unnecessary B'rachah ...

Proof: ... because otherwise, why did Rav Yosef rejoice, seeing as he lost all the B'rachos?

Clarification: The Medrash informs us that she was demented.

Clarification: This a valuable bird - a species of quail that they had in the desert.

Clarification: This means that he is punished for what he did - since he demonstrated his miserliness over his father's meal.

Clarification (cont.): 'And it is possible to cause him to grind in the mill' - which is a tough assignment, yet 'It brings him to life in the World to Come' - because he honors him with kind and comforting words.

Illustration: The Yerushalmi in Pe'ah, Perek 1) illustrates both sides of the coin with a story ...

Story #1: A man used to feed his father 'Pisyuni' ...

Story #1 (cont): Once, when his father asked him from where he obtained them all, he replied 'What difference does it make to you, old man? You chew and eat!' - like dogs which break up their food and eat it ...

Story #1 (concl.): ... This demonstrated that he found it difficult.

Story #2: And it tells another story of a man who worked grinding in a mill, who had an old father. On one occasion, when a royal edict ordered his father to go and work for the king ...

Story #2 (cont.): ... his son said to him 'You grind! and I will take your place and work for the king - which has no time limit ...

Story #2 (cont.): ... and this is to your advantage regarding both your dignity and the beatings from which you will be spared.

Explanation #1: Whilst he was still bending down in front of him, he understood how to Darshen "Mizmor le'Asaf; Elokim Ba'u Goyim be'Nachalasecha", which he had not known previously, and he Darshened it.

Explanation #2: Others explain that it was just the Pasuk "Mizmor le'Asaf" that he Darshened ...

Question: ... inasmuch as it ought to have written 'a Kinah (a lamentation) of Asaf'?

Answer: So he explained that Asaf was actually singing because Hakadosh-Baruch-Hu poured out all His wrath on the wood and stones of His house ...

Explanation #2 (cont.): ... and as a result, He left over a remnant of Yisrael; because had He not done so, not a single refugee would have remained of 'the enemies of' Yisrael ...

Support: And so the Pasuk writes (in Eichah, 4) "Hash-m poured out all His wrath on Tziyon" This is how Rashi explained it.

Explanation #3: The Medrash however, explains that Asaf sang Shirah on its gates that sunk into the ground ...

Explanation #3 (cont.): A Mashal to a maidservant who went to draw water from the well and whose pitcher fell into the well. She became distraught and began to cry - until the king's maidservant came to draw water carrying a golden pitcher, and it too, fell into the well ...

Explanation #3 (cont.): At which point the first maidservant began to sing. 'Till now', she exclaimed, I didn't think that anybody would retrieve my cheap earthenware pitcher from the well ...

Explanation #3 (cont.): ... but now, whoever retrieves the golden pitcher, will retrieve my pitcher as well!'

Explanation #3 (concl.): In the same way, when the sons of Korach, who were swallowed up inside the earth, saw how the gates of the Beis-ha'Mikdash sunk into the ground, proclaimed 'Whoever rescues the gates will also rescue us!'

Conclusion: That explains why Asaf, who was from the family of Korach, said 'Mizmor' (and not 'Kinah').

Illustration #1: The Yerushalmi (on Daf 20a) relates the full story concerning Rebbi Tarfon's mother, who once lost her sock in the courtyard. When she got out of bed to go and look for it, Rebbi Tarfon placed his hand underneath her feet as she walked, to avoid her getting them dirty; and so she walked along, stepping on his hands.

Illustration #2: In another episode, the Yerushsalmi tells how, whenever Rebbi Yishmael returned from the Beis ha'Medrash, she would wash his feet and drink the water ...

Illustration #2 (cont.): When Rebbi Yishmael heard that she did that, he refused to allow her to continue - until she complained to the Chachamim that her son did not fulfill the Mitzvah of Kibud Eim ...

Illustration #2 (concl.): The Chachamim, who were stunned to hear that, asked Rebbi Yishmael about it; and when he told them what happened, they instructed him to let her do as she pleased, as that constituted Kibud Eim.