Об этом документе

Covenant & Conversation — Tzav 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Tzav 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. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks Understanding Sacrifice One of the most difficult elements of the Torah and charity brings, as it were, a financial sacrifice, the way of life it prescribes is the phenomenon of acknowledging that all we have we owe to God. Many theories have been advanced by this week’s haftarah.[1] None of the prophets sought anthropologists, psychologists and Bible scholars as to abolish sacrifices, but they were severely critical of to what the sacrifices represented, but most are those who offered them while at the same time based on the questionable assumption that sacrifice oppressing or exploiting their fellow human beings. That is Finally, it remains remarkable how simply and why, when they were a nation of farmers and smoothly the Sages were able to construct shepherds, the Israelites demonstrated their love of substitutes for sacrifice, three in particular: prayer, God by bringing Him a symbolic gift of their flocks study, and tzedakah. economy were serious attempts to harness the power That is why, in the biblical age, sacrifices were so of self-interest to combat the destructive passions important – not as they were in other faiths but that led to violence.[3] The fact that politics and precisely because at the beating heart of Judaism is economics were based on self-interest did not negate love: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your the possibility that families and communities were heart, and with all your soul, and with all your sustained by altruism. century Judah Halevi expressed something closer to awe at the fact that Jews stayed Jewish despite the _____ fact that “with a word lightly spoken” they could [1] Jeremiah 7:22, “When I freed your fathers from the land of have converted to the majority faith and lived a life of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning relative ease (Kuzari 4:23) Equally possible though is burnt offerings or sacrifice” – a remarkable statement. Marriages fail when the in the interests of each of us to hand over some of our Understanding Sacrifice 2 Tzav p

Издание

Covenant & Conversation

Дата

30 марта 2023 г.

Страниц

3

Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit