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Covenant & Conversation — Tsav 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Tsav 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why Civilisations Die In The Watchman’s Rattle, subtitled Thinking Our Sometime between the middle of the eighth and Way Out of Extinction, Rebecca Costa delivers a ninth century the majority of the Mayan people fascinating account of how civilisations die. of three and a half thousand years, between 2,600 BCE and 900 CE, they developed an extraordinary Rebecca Costa’s argument is that whatever the civilisation, spreading over what is today Mexico, causes, the Mayan collapse, like the fall of the Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Belize, Roman Empire, and the Khmer Empire of with an estimated population of 15 million people. They faced two centuries of crisis this the Sages inferred that “if a person repents it under Roman rule between Pompey’s conquest in is accounted to him as if he had gone up to 63 BCE and the collapse of the Bar Kochba Jerusalem and built the Temple and the altar and rebellion in 135 CE. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai comforted Rabbi Joshua, who What is striking in hindsight is how, rather than wondered how Israel would atone for its sins clinging obsessively to the past, leaders like without sacri ces, with the words: Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai thought forward to a worst-case-scenario future. The great question “My son, we have another atonement as raised by parshat Tzav, which is all about di erent e ective as this: acts of kindness, as it is kinds of sacri ce, is not “Why were sacri ces written (Hosea 6:6), ‘I desire kindness commanded in the rst place?” but rather, “Given and not sacri ce.’” how central they were to the religious life of Israel Avot deRabbi Natan 8 in Temple times, how did Judaism survive without Another was Torah study. The Sages interpreted them?” Malachi’s words, “In every place o erings are The short answer is that overwhelmingly the presented to My name,” (Malachi 1:11 ) to refer to Prophets, the Sages, and the Jewish thinkers of the scholars who study the laws of sacri ce Middle Ages realised that sacri ces were symbolic (Menachot 110a). But in another it was the foresight of people like Rabban Yochan

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Covenant & Conversation

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29 марта 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary