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Covenant & Conversation — Vayelech 5785

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Vayelech 5785. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. law: Laws of Te llin, Mezuzah and Every male Israelite is commanded Sefer Torah 7:1 to write a Torah scroll for himself, as it says, “Now therefore write this There is something poetic in the fact that song,” meaning, “Write for Moses left this law until the last. In a brilliant phrase the of Tanach (there were a thousand years poet Heinrich Heine called the Torah “the between Moses and Malachi, the last of portable homeland of the Jew.” In George the prophets, and in the very last chapter Steiner’s gloss, “The text is home; each of the prophetic books Malachi, says in commentary a return.”1 the name of God, “Remember the Torah Dispersed, scattered, landless, powerless, of My servant Moses, the decrees and laws so long as a Jew had the Torah he or she I gave him at Horeb for all Israel”). King David less as a military hero and Israel’s greatest king than as a penitent So there is immense power in the idea and Torah scholar (note that several of that, as Moses reached the end of his life, the Psalms, notably 1, 19 and 119, are and the Torah the end of its narrative, the poems in praise of Torah study). not think it is enough to be able to say, Then for a further thousand years, from ‘My ancestors received the Torah from the Gaonim to the Rishonim to the Moses.’ You must take it and make it new Acharonim, they wrote commentaries to in every generation. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at https://rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/nitzavim/why-be-jewish/ The Heart, the Home, the Text 4 Vayelech fi ff fi fi 31:19 who does not know how to write a The Oral Tradition understood this to scroll may engage [a scribe] to do it command that each Israelite should take for him, and whoever corrects even part in the writing of a Sefer Torah. creation: “God looked in the Torah and created the Universe.” According to When the day came for David to die, the another tradition, the whole Torah was a Angel of Death was despatched, but single, mystical name of God. __________________________________________

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Covenant & Conversation
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26 сентября 2025 г.
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4

Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary