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Words of Wisdom from Rabbi Yitzi — Ki Tavo 5781

Выпуск: Words of Wisdom from Rabbi Yitzi — Ki Tavo 5781. Темы: family_education, chassidus_hashkafa, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, хасидут, хасидский взгляд, chassidus, hashkafa, חסידות, השקפה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות. He has also written many books on leadership and creativity, including one in particular, Leading Minds, that is important in understanding this week’s parsha of Ki Tavo.[1] Gardner’s argument is that what makes a leader is the ability to tell a particular kind of story – one that explains ourselves to ourselves and gives power and resonance to a collective vision. While it is true that the Torah generally tends to be concise, positive language could still have been used, especially in light of the Talmud’s assertion that the Torah goes to great lengths, often employing circumlocutions, in order to use clean, decent language.3 3 ‫בס"ד‬ Too Much Good It is far simpler to create a curse than to create a blessing. 4 ‫בס"ד‬ The Talmud relates that Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues once saw a fox emerging from the site of the Holy of Holies, and Rabbi Akiva laughed, saying, “So long as Uriah’s prophecy [‘Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the House as the high places of the forest’]6 had not been fulfilled, I was afraid that Zechariah’s prophecy [‘Old men and women shall yet sit in the broad places of Jerusalem’]7 might not be fulfilled. Those standing for the curse pronounced the curses as they appear in the Torah, and those standing for the blessing pronounced an opposite formula: “Blessed is he who does not make a graven or molten image,” “Blessed is he who does not dishonor his father and mother,” and so forth.2 If a “blessing formula” was in fact pronounced, why does the Torah cite only the curses and not use the positive language of the blessings? If you read the Five Books of Moses you may struggle to find such a commandment, but Maimonides includes it in his count.1 He argues that when the Torah urges us to “walk in His ways,”2 it means that we are obligated to emulate G-d’s noble characteristics to the best of our ability. “We are commanded to have mercy and compassion, to be charitable and kind, which is what is stated by the verse ‘You shall love your fel

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Темы: family_education, chassidus_hashkafa, health_mind, parsha_commentary