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Covenant & Conversation — Matos-Massei 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Matos-Massei 5783. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental. individuals reaches a climax in Moses’ prayer to “God of We each have a series of identities, based partly on the spirits of all flesh” (Bamidbar 27:16) to appoint a family background, partly on occupation, partly on successor – understood by the Sages and Rashi to mean, locality and community. If the number of Israelites than to “lift” their “heads”, the land were to pass to Tzelophehad’s daughters and they unusual locution the Torah uses to convey the idea that married men from another tribe, the land would when God orders a census it is to tell the people that 1 The word “rights” is, of course, an anachronism here. Nonetheless it is not absurd to suggest that this is what is implied in the daughters’ claim, “Why should our father's name be disadvantaged?” 2 These two passages may well be the source of the story of the rabbi who hears both sides of a marital dispute, and says to both husband and wife, “You are right.” The rabbi’s disciple asks, “How can they both be right?” to which the rabbi replies, “You too are right.” The Complexity of Human Rights 1 Matot-Masei they each count. We read of Moses’ despair, of a free society.4 The modern state of Israel is built on a Aaron and Miriam’s criticism of him, of the spies who vast panoply of ethnicities – Ashkenazi, Sefardi, Jews lacked the courage to come back with a positive report, from Eastern, Central and Western Europe, Spain and and of the malcontents, led by Korach, who challenged Portugal, Arab lands, Russia and Ethiopia, America, Moses’ leadership. These “mediating structures”, appoint a leader who will deal with each individual as an larger than the individual but smaller than the state, are individual, who will relate to people in their uniqueness where we develop our complex, vivid, face-to-face and singularity. As many of the commentators strong civil society is essential to freedom.5 pointed out, the behaviour of the women throughout That is why, alongside individual rights, a society must the wilderness years was exemplary while that of the make space for group ide

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Covenant & Conversation

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14 июля 2023 г.

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3

Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, health_mind, parsha_commentary