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Covenant & Conversation — nt and conversation — Vayeishev 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — nt and conversation — Vayeishev 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. As The Talmud (Brachot 26b) uses the phrase, ein sichah Nachmanides writes, on the command: You shall not ela tefillah, which literally means, “Conversation is a hate your brother in your heart: form of prayer,” because in opening ourselves up to “Those who hate tend to hide their hate in the human other, we prepare ourselves for the act of their heart.” opening ourselves up with the Divine Other, which is what prayer is: a conversation with God. Do not through real trauma before they were able to take this affair to heart.” recognise one another’s humanity, and much of the rest of their story – the longest single narrative in And Tamar remained, forlorn, in the house of the Torah – is about just that. Judaism is about the God who cannot be seen, who And Absolom would not speak a word to can only be heard; about the God who created the Amnon, neither good nor bad, for Absolom universe with words and whose first act of kindness despised Amnon for having violated Tamar, his to the first human being was to teach him how to use sister. Joseph and his brothers might have been the role – specifically the failure – of language is reconciled early on in their lives, and thus spared alluded to, in a way missed by virtually all themselves, their father, and their descendants, translations. In it relates to interpersonal relations: addition there were the bad reports Joseph brought When a person sins against another, the to his father about his half-brothers, the children of injured party should not hate the offender and the handmaids. The Sages were eloquent in speaking about the dangers of lashon hara, “evil speech,” the power of Sibling Rivalry 2 Vayeshev language to fracture relationships and destroy trust Language is the redemption of solitude, and the and goodwill. We have here an instance of one of the Torah’s great insights, that conversation is a form of conflict Conversation does not, in and of itself, resolve resolution, whereas the breakdown of speech is often conflict. Rabbi Eybeschutz refers us to the because “he had been born to him in his old age.” But command in Vayikra 19:17: we also know it was because Josep

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Covenant & Conversation

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8 декабря 2023 г.

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3

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary