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The Yeshiva.net — Bamidbar 5784

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — Bamidbar 5784. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. The Desert What was the significance of the fact that Torah was given in a wilderness, in a barren and infertile desert, not in a civilized terrain, nor on soil conducive to human living and nature’s https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/844/entering-into-the-wilderness 1/7 6/2/24, 5:17 PM TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi YY Jacobson blessing. https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/844/entering-into-the-wilderness 3/7 6/2/24, 5:17 PM TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi YY Jacobson A Tale of Two Images But suppose that Judaism was real -- it was the authentic blueprint for life from the living G-d -- then the question should not be, “How do I find a Judaism that does not disturb me too much,” but rather – what does Judaism really say about my calling? In the great river https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/844/entering-into-the-wilderness 4/7 6/2/24, 5:17 PM TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi YY Jacobson lowlands where civilization began (the Tigris-Euphrates rivers and the Nile), the eye is captivated by the shifting scenes of nature; in cities, the eye is overtaken by the works of man -- art and architecture. Sinai challenged the Jewish people to revisit all of existence from its deepest genesis; to reexamine life and history from its very nucleus; to see the world not from the human perspective, but from the perspective of G-d who cannot be confined in human modalities. This expression has always been a source of wonderment and surprise to rabbis and a refutation of the anti-Semitic portrayal of Jews as https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/844/entering-into-the-wilderness 5/7 6/2/24, 5:17 PM TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi YY Jacobson calculating and self-protective. Torah demands that we open ourselves up with our whole being and declare, “We shall do and we shall listen!” (This essay is based on a talk delivered by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Shabbas Parshas Bamidbar, 29 Iyar, 5732, May 13, 1972.) https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/844/entering-into-the-wilderness 7/7 https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/844/entering-into-the-wilderness 2/7 6/2/24, 5:17 PM TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi YY Jacobson In many ways this has become the hallmark of the American version of Judaism – designed to conform to the paradigms of modernity. 6/2/24, 5:17 PM TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi

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