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Covenant & Conversation — Vayeitzei 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Vayeitzei 5783. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Jacob lay down to sleep, and then emphasised in his own words when he says, “the saw this majestic vision: Lord is in this place – and I did not know it.” The very verb used at the beginning of the passage, He dreamed: – “Ve-hinei!” – He saw a “He came upon a place,” in Hebrew “vayifga ba- ladder set upon the ground, whose top makom”, also means an unexpected encounter. – “the Place,” came to mean “God.” Hence in a “Ve-hinei!” – The Lord stood over him there poetic way the phrase vayifga ba-makom could be How the Light Gets In 1 Vayetse read as, “Jacob happened on (had an unexpected From the depths, O Lord, encounter with) God.”Add to this Jacob’s night- I call for Your help. 130:1) time wrestling match with the angel in the Sometimes our deepest spiritual experiences come following parsha and we have an answer to our when we least expect them, when we are closest to question. have spoken of to you.” Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Truly, the Lord is The answer, it seems to me, is intimated in the in this place – and I did not know it!” He beginning of this parsha. God is holding us The man who gave the most profound poetic by the hand, sheltering us, lifting us when we fall, expression to this was undoubtedly David in the forgiving us when we fail, healing the wounds in book of Psalms. VAYETSE • ‫ויצא‬ STUDIES IN SPIRITUALITY With thanks to the Schimmel Family for their generous sponsorship of Covenant & Conversation, dedicated in loving memory of Harry (Chaim) Schimmel. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/vayetse/how-the-light-gets-in/ How the Light Gets In 3 Vayetse the man who, in liminal space, in the middle of the “My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken journey, discovers that “surely the Lord is in this and contrite heart You, God, will not despise” (Ps. They could still discover that “the Lord is in will fall from him and be completely this place – and I did not know it!” Abraham gave nullified.[1] Jews the courage to challenge the idols of the age. He did not, like Abraham, leave his land, his shall be like the d

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Covenant & Conversation

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28 ноября 2022 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary