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Covenant & Conversation — Mishpotim 5782

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Mishpotim 5782. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. It has accused Jews of being part of a “cabal of western economic interests” attempting to control the world: the libel otherwise known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fiction created by members of the Czarist secret service in Paris in the late 1890s and revealed as a forgery by The Times in 1921.1 On one occasion the Jobbik party asked for a list of all the Jews in the Hungarian government. He was 1 Marcin Goettig and Christian Lowe, “Special Report: From Hungary, far-right party spreads ideology, tactics,” Reuters, http:// www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-farright-special-report-idUSBREA380IU20140409#PUagU6ZvCiQtZgD8.99 (accessed 22 December 2015). Hume said the most remarkable feature of human nature is the “propensity we have to sympathise with others.”4 Adam Smith began his Theory of Moral Sentiments with the words, “How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”5 Immanuel Kant, the supreme rationalist, believed that rationality itself was the source of morality. The Nazis convinced themselves (and others) that in exterminating the Jews they were performing a moral service for the Aryan race.8 Suicide bombers are convinced that they are acting for the greater glory of God.9 There is such a thing as altruistic evil. “I thought, wait a minute, I am supposed to apologise for the fact that my family was killed at Auschwitz?”2 As the realisation that he was a Jew began to change his life, it also transformed his understanding of the world. When he first admitted the truth about his Jewish ancestry, one of his friends in the Jobbik party said, “The best thing would be if we shoot you, so you can be buried as a pure Hungarian.” Another urged him to make a public apology. Healing the Heart of Darkness Mishpatim Jobbik, otherwise known as the Movement for a Better Hungary, is an ultra-nationalist Hungarian political party that has been described as fascist, neo-Nazi, racist, and antisemitic. The Greeks of antiquity, masters of art

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Covenant & Conversation

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27 января 2022 г.

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4

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary