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The Yeshiva.net — hiva.net — Lech-Lecha 5781

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — hiva.net — Lech-Lecha 5781. Темы: health_mind. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. Abraham asks G-d, “Where are you?” G-d replies, “I am here, where are you?” Man asks G-d, “Why did You abandon the world?” G-d asks man, “Why did you abandon Me?” Thus begins the revolution of Judaism—humanity’s courageous venture to extinguish the flames of oppression and violence and restore the world to the harmonious palace it was intended to be. We learned the hard way that, as Churchill put it, an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." Good people of the world are waiting to be inspired by our four-millennium long heritage of standing up to evil and banishing it from G-d’s palace. A non- judgmental view of someone who beheads a woman in France, for example, may appeal to our sophistication, yet in reality, it is a display of extreme cruelty to the innocent victims who will die at the hands of frustrated militants. https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/940/print-view 2/3 10/23/23, 7:00 PM TheYeshiva.net Abraham would ask us to reflect on the most important questions facing us: How do we create a world filled with kindness, goodness, and justice? For many years the leaders across the world and in the Jewish State displayed tolerance toward terrorists, neglecting our most cherished doctrine that the preservation of human life reigns supreme over every other consideration. The Midrash (in this week’s Torah portion) describes the birth of Judaism with the following cryptic parable: The Lord said to Abraham, “Leave your land, your birthplace, and your father’s house.” To what may this be compared? Judaism, in its obsessive attempt to turn the word into an exquisite palace, created absolute universal standards for good and evil defined by the Creator of the universe, articulated in His manual for human living, the Torah. He wondered, “Is it possible that the palace has no owner?” The owner of the palace looked out and said, “I am the owner of the palace.” So Abraham our father said, “Is it possible that the world lacks a ruler”? So “The owner of the palace looked out and said, ‘I am the owner of the palace.’ G-d looked out and said to Abraham, ‘I am the ruler, the Sovereign of the universe,’” the Midrash records G-d’s reply. Note that the owner of the palace does not make an attempt to

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