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Covenant & Conversation — Lech-Lecha 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Lech-Lecha 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Abraham, left heroism on the battlefield, performed no miracles, alone with his father’s idols, breaks them with a proclaimed no prophecy, led no vast throng of hammer, which he leaves in the hand of the biggest of followers, and had no disciples other than his own child. Abraham, says the Midrash, is like a man travelling on a journey when he sees a palace in flames: Yet never was a promise more richly fulfilled than the words of God to him when He changed his name from He wondered, “Is it possible that the palace lacks Abram to Abraham: an owner?” The owner of the palace looked out and said, “I am the owner of the palace.” So “For I have made you father of many nations.” Abraham our father said, “Is it possible that the Gen. Day and night, Abraham’s challenge to God about the proposed he thought and wondered, “How is it possible that destruction of Sodom and the cities of the plain: “Shall this celestial sphere should continuously be the Judge of all the earth not do justice?” As for guiding the world and have no one to guide it and Abraham-as-Aristotle, that is based on an ancient cause it to turn, for it cannot be that it turns tradition that the Greek philosophers (especially itself?” He had no teacher, no one to instruct him Pythagoras) derived their wisdom from the Jews, but in anything. In the only verse in which the thought, and knew that there is one God, He that Torah explains the choice of Abraham, it says: guides the celestial spheres and created For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his everything, and that among all that exists, there children and his household after him to keep the is no God beside Him. way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so Maimonides, Hilchot Avodat Kochavim 1:3 that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what He has promised him.” This is Abraham the philosopher, anticipating Aristotle, using metaphysical argument to prove the existence of Gen. Stephen Judaism takes what is natural and sanctifies it; what is Hawking famously wrote at the end of A Brief History of physical and invests it with spirituality; what is Time that if we had a Unified Field Theory, a scientific elsewhere co

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Covenant & Conversation

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27 октября 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary