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Covenant & Conversation — Kedoshim 5782

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Kedoshim 5782. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. We have encountered four instances in the Torah thus far of non-Israelite priests: Malchizedek, Abraham’s contemporary, described as a Priest of God Most High; Potiphera, Joseph’s father-in-law; the Egyptian Priests as a whole, whose land Joseph did not nationalise; and Yitro, Moses’ father-in-law, a Midianite Priest. The most explicit instance comes in the prelude to the great covenant-making ceremony at Mount Sinai when God tells Moses to say to the people, “Now, if you faithfully heed My Voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasure among all the peoples, although the whole earth is Mine. The first intimation is much earlier still, in the first chapter of Genesis, with its monumental assertion, image: “Let Us make humankind in Our image, in Our likeness." So God created humankind in His own image: in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Thus was born the cluster of ideas that, though they took many millennia to be realised, led to the distinctive culture of the West: the non-negotiable dignity of the human person, the idea of human rights, and eventually, the political and economic expressions of these ideas - liberal democracy on the one hand, and the free market on the other. And can the liberties of a nation be thought the priestly voice.” secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?”1 The irony is that these three texts - Genesis 1, Exodus 19:6, and Leviticus 19 - are all spoken in the priestly voice Judaism calls Torat Kohanim.2 On the face of it, Priests were not egalitarian. With the development, first of agriculture, then of cities, what emerged were highly stratified societies with a ruler on top, surrounded by a royal court, beneath which was an administrative elite, and at the bottom an illiterate mass that was conscripted from time to time either as an army or as a corvée, a labour force used in the construction of monumental buildings. What kept the structure in place was an elaborate doctrine of a heavenly hierarchy whose origi

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Covenant & Conversation

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6 мая 2022 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary