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The Yeshiva.net — Vayikra 5783

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — Vayikra 5783. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות. .‫ ְוִא ם ָּכל ֲעַד ת ִיְׂש ָר ֵא ל ִיְׁש ּגּו‬.‫ ִא ם ַה ֹּכֵה ן ַה ָּמ ִׁש יַח ֶיֱח ָט א‬:‫ יג‬.‫ ג‬,‫ויקרא ד‬ However, when the Torah describes the potential sin of a leader (a Nasei) the text reads: ...‫ ֲא ֶׁש ר ָנִׂש יא ֶיֱח ָט א‬:‫ כב‬,‫ויקרא ד‬ “When a leader sins…” https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/5477/print-view 1/4 3/19/23, 1:41 PM TheYeshiva.net Not if, but when. The Talmud states:[3] .‫ ואלו הן בנימין בן יעקב ועמרם אבי משה וישי אבי דוד וכלאב בן דוד‬.‫ ארבעה מתו בעטיו של נחש‬,‫תנו רבנן‬ Four people died only because of the advice of the snake (meaning, they never committed any sins, they only died because of Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge which introduced the reality of death into human life.[4]) Benjamin, the son of Jacob; Amram the father of Moses; Yishai the father of David, and Kileab the son of David. When, Not If The weekly Torah portion of Vayikra (and much of the book of Vayikra, Leviticus) is about sacrifices, and though these laws have been inoperative for almost 2000 years since the destruction of the Temple, the moral principles they embody and the messages they contain are meaningful and inspiring. At the dawn of history, the Torah established a truth most famously verbalized centuries later by the nineteenth-century moralist Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”[2] Yet, there is more to this. Think of all the great people of our nation who are excluded from this list: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah; the other eleven sons of Jacob including Benjamin’s older and beloved brother Joseph, known as Yosef HaTzaddik, Joseph the righteous one. So although we have a place in our hearts for the four individuals who never sinned, because they remained aloof; although we pay tribute to spiritual saints who don’t hurt a fly and remain immaculate, and we ought to learn from them and be inspired by them, nonetheless we remind ourselves of those individuals who were even greater than the sinless saints—because they did “sin,” because they did commit errors. But I regret far more all those things I n

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The Yeshiva.net

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19 марта 2023 г.

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4

Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit