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Covenant & Conversation — Naso 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Naso 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Pursuit of Peace The parsha of Naso seems, on the face of it, to be a Why does the Torah spend so much time heterogeneous collection of utterly unrelated describing an event that could have been stated far items. Evidently they were satis ed with “That is why God is called peace, because it this honour, unlike the family of Kehat detailed at is He who binds the world together and the end of last week’s parsha, one of whose orders all things according to their number, Korach, eventually instigated a rebellion particular character and posture. ben Zakkai after the destruction of the Second If this analysis is correct, then a single theme binds Temple, the law served as a reminder as to how the laws and narrative of this parsha: the theme of important domestic peace is in the Jewish scale of making special e orts to preserve or restore peace values. First there is the account of the Levitical more brie y by naming the princes and then families of Gershon and Merari and their tasks in simply telling us generically that each brought a carrying parts of the Tabernacle when the silver dish, a silver basin and so on? It means upon himself special holiness restrictions, among completeness, perfection, the harmonious working them the renunciation of wine and grape products, of a complex system, integrated diversity, a state of haircuts, and of de lement by contact with a in which everything is in its proper place and all is dead body. things are in their proper order, peace will reign.” Likewise, the long account of the o erings of the princes of the twelve tribes is a dramatic way of Abarbanel, Commentary to Avot 1:12 indicating that each was considered important This is a concept of peace heavily dependent on the enough to merit its own passage in the Torah. There is an internal con ict within What struck the Sages most forcibly about the Judaism between, on the one hand, a strong ritual of the Sotah is the fact that it involved emphasis on the equal dignity of everyone in the obliterating the name of God, something strictly eyes of God, and the exist

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Covenant & Conversation

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11 июня 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary