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Covenant & Conversation — Balak 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Balak 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. It was Bilaam, and he is not known as a friend of The diplomat, noting that the conversation had the Jews.” Bilaam is one of the people mentioned in taken a pessimistic turn, and being a religious the Mishnah (Sanhedrin 10:2) as having no share in man, sought to comfort us. They seemed to present all the inescapable dilemmas of man in a heightened and clari ed form… It seems to be the role of the Jews to focus and dramatise these common experiences of mankind, and to turn their particular fate into a universal moral.” As we prepare ourselves for the next battle in the long ght for freedom it is vitally important not to believe in advance that we are destined to be alone, to nd ourselves without friends and allies, confronting a world that neither understands us nor is willing to grant us a place to live our faith and shape our future in loyalty to our past. Bilaam, hired to “Remember,” I continued, “what the Talmud says curse the Jewish people, instead repeatedly blesses in Sanhedrin (105b), that all the blessings with which Bilaam blessed the Jewish people turned into A People That Dwells Alone? whole world had one language and a common Athletes, writers, actors, singers, pianists may live speech.” Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin (Netziv) apart when they are preparing for a major says that this means that there was no dissent. About a leper the For some time now – the Durban conference was Torah says, badad yeshev michutz lamachaneh one sign of it – Israel and Diaspora Jewry have moshavo, ‘He shall dwell alone, outside the faced growing isolation. Our ancestors were called on to is why the fate of Jews in any given time and place be “a kingdom of Priests and a holy nation.” The is often the best index of freedom in that time and word kadosh, “holy,” means set apart. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks This year's series of essays and videos were originally written and recorded by Rabbi Sacks zt"l in 5771 (2010–2011). For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/balak/a-people-that-dwells-

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Covenant & Conversation

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18 июля 2024 г.

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3

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary