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Covenant & Conversation — Shemini 5782

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Shemini 5782. Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. 9:23) Just as we think the narrative has reached closure, a terrifying scene takes place: Aaron’s sons, Nadav and Avihu, took their censers, put fire into them and added incense; and they offered unauthorised fire before God, which He had not instructed them to offer. Nadav and Avihu died because: they entered the Holy of Fire: Holy and Unholy 1 Shemini Holies;1 they were not wearing the requisite clothes;2 they took fire from the kitchen, not the Altar;3 they did not consult Moses and Aaron;4 nor did they consult one another.5 According to some they were guilty of hubris. They were impatient to assume leadership roles themselves;6 and they did not marry, considering themselves above such things.7 Yet others see their deaths as delayed punishment for an earlier sin, when, at Mount Sinai they “ate and drank” in the Presence of God (Ex. Nadav and Avihu died because they offered unauthorised, literally “strange,” fire, meaning “that which was not commanded.” To understand the significance of this, we must go back to first principles and remind ourselves of the meaning of kadosh, “holy”, and thus of the Mikdash as the home of the holy. story through and through.” We err if we think of God as capricious, jealous, angry: a myth spread by early Christianity in an attempt to define itself as the religion of love, superseding the cruel/ harsh/retributive God of the “Old Testament”. A philosophical answer (I am thinking here of the mainstream of Western philosophy, beginning in antiquity with Plato, in modernity with Descartes) would be one that applies universally – i.e., at all times, in all places. God as we encounter Him in the Torah is like a parent the love and generosity who knows they must hold back, let go, refrain from implicit in creation.” intervening, if their children are to become responsible and mature. To give humankind some of His own creative powers – the use of language to think, communicate, understand, imagine alternative futures and choose between them – God must do more than create Homo sapiens. If civilisation is to be guided by love, justice, and respect for the integrity of creation, there must be moments in which we leave the “I” be

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Covenant & Conversation

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24 марта 2022 г.

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4

Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary