The Rabbis taught in a Brysa: we do not accord honour (by
giving on precedence), neither (when travelling) on roads, nor (when passing over)
bridges, nor (with regard to washing) soiled hands.
The Ben haYehoyada draws a Mussar message, a moral lesson
from this Brysa. The material world, Olam haZeh, is compared to a road and a
bridge along which we travel and must pass; and that man is soiled/polluted by
the Nachash, (Yeitzer Hora.) The world is thus a vehicle
to rid ourselves of this contamination. This is achieved by distancing
ourselves from Kovod, honour.
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