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A Collection of Essays — Lech Lecha 5783

Выпуск: A Collection of Essays — Lech Lecha 5783. Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית. ‫ לךלך‬- ‫בס"ד‬ A Call To Every Jew Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz In the first verse of this week's parsha, Lech Lecha, Hashem commanded Avraham, "Lech Lecha, go for yourself, from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you." Hashem continues to tell Avraham that, "I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great." This is the first command to the first Jew, therefore, there must be a message here for every Jewish person, for all time. The Torah gives us no portrait of Abraham’s childhood, his youth, his relationship with the other members of his family, how he came to marry Sarah, or the qualities of character that made God single him out to become the initiator of what ultimately turned out to be the greatest revolution in the religious history of humankind, what is called nowadays Abrahamic monotheism. This is especially poignant now after the holidays, when we are thrusted into the mundane, which in chasidic teaching is called, "V'Yaakov halach l'darko, and Yaakov went on his way," meaning that every "Yaakov," every Jew, goes 1 ‫ לךלך‬- ‫בס"ד‬ on his way after the holidays, doing his mission to transform his part of the world into a dwelling place for Hashem. The literary theorist Harold Bloom wrote two fascinating books, The Anxiety of Influence and Maps of Misreading,[1] in which, in Freudian style, he 12 ‫ לךלך‬- ‫בס"ד‬ argued that strong poets make space for themselves by deliberately misinterpreting or misunderstanding their predecessors. When we are young we hear the enchanting – indeed empowering – story of Abraham breaking his father’s idols, with its message that a child can sometimes be right and a parent wrong, especially when it comes to 14 ‫ לךלך‬- ‫בס"ד‬ spirituality and faith. It refers to the ascent from below to above we must make every day from the lowly and mundane, from "your land, your birthplace, and your father's house," which in the context of the verse, refers to a place and an atmosphere of idol worship, " to the land that I will sh

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A Collection of Essays

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4 ноября 2022 г.

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24

Темы: kashrut, family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary