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Covenant & Conversation — and-Creed-5784-Yitro — Yisro 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — and-Creed-5784-Yitro — Yisro 5784. 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. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Deed and Creed The parsha of Yitro records the revolutionary So at Sinai was born the principle that was, moment when God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, millennia later, described by Thomas Jefferson in entered into a mutually binding agreement with a the American Declaration of Independence, the nation, the Children of Israel, an agreement we idea that governors and governments derive call a brit, a covenant. To the contrary, Judaism is understand', as we see in the story of the Tower of what it is precisely because of our beliefs, most Babel: importantly the belief in monotheism, that there “Come, let us descend and confuse their is, at least and at most, one God. In a book had its rationalists and its mystics, its that emphasises how fractious and fissiparous the philosophers and its poets, its naturalists and its people were, such declarations of unanimity are supernaturalists: Rabbi Ishmael and Rabbi Akiva, significant and rare. What is fascinating is that this well-known feature of Judaism is already signalled in the Torah: in the difference between the way it speaks about na'aseh, “as one,” “with a single voice,” and nishma, with no special collective consensus. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks This year's series of essays and videos were originally written and recorded by Rabbi Sacks zt"l in 5771 (2010–2011). The Torah tells us speech, so that one person will not in Bereishit about creation, in Shemot about understand another's speech.” redemption, and in this week’s parsha about revelation. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/yitro/deed-and-creed/ Deed and Creed 3 Yitro YITRO • ‫יתרו‬ With thanks to the Schimmel Family for their generous sponsorship of Covenant & Conversation, dedicated in loving memory of Harry (Chaim) Schimmel. 19:8 the most striking features of all in Judaism: th

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Covenant & Conversation

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2 февраля 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary