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Covenant & Conversation — Ki Tavo 5785

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Ki Tavo 5785. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. “To be willing to obey” as the angel’s words to Abraham after the Behold our Torah is unique among all Binding of Isaac, “Through your the other doctrines and religions that o spring all nations on earth will be other nations have had, in that our blessed, because you were willing to Torah contains nothing that does not obey Me” (Gen. people obey them because of It is in this last sense that the verb sh-m- compulsion, out of fear of the threat a comes closest in meaning to “obey.” of punishment but not because of The fact that it means all these things their essence.1 suggests that in the Torah there is no Along similar lines, the modern scholar concept of blind obedience. The law of tsitsit occurs after the story of the spies because (as I explained That is why Moses, consistently in an earlier Covenant & Conversation) throughout Devarim, uses the verb sh-m- both have to do with ways of seeing: the a. Listening and Law 2 Ki Tavo ffi fi fi fi fi ff ff The Torah uses at least three devices to respecting the deep structure of nature as show that Jewish law is not arbitrary, a described in the opening chapter of the mere decree. There is a strong creator of heaven and earth, had chosen connection between Genesis 1, the story this people as His own, brought them of creation, and the laws of kedushah, from slavery to freedom, fed, sustained holiness. “To respond in deed, to do what nations are not like this: they do not someone else wants” as in “Do conform to equity and wisdom, but whatever Sarah tells you” - sh’ma are foreign to the nature of man, and bekolah (Gen. misunderstand the nature of Judaism: 3:17) and “Then Rachel said: God has very few Christian thinkers fully vindicated me; He has listened to my appreciated the concept of mitzva and the plea and given me a son” (Gen. They The second, most notably in the book of protect Israel against the otherwise Bamidbar, is the juxtaposition of narrative inexorable laws of the decline and fall of and law, as if to say, the law is best nations. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks This year's series of essays were originally writt

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Covenant & Conversation

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12 сентября 2025 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary