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Covenant & Conversation — Bamidbar 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Bamidbar 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Between the Sinai at the beginning of the book, but on the brink two is the crucial stage of transition when, having of the Promised Land by its end, are now a sizeable said goodbye to who you were but not yet hello to nation, numbering 600,000 men of an age to who you are about to become, you are recast, embark on military service. For it is there that the people settled populations, no cities, no civilisational experience one of the Torah’s most revolutionary order – is the place where Jacob’s descendants, ideas, namely that an ideal society is one in which alone with God, cast o one identity and assume everyone has equal dignity under the sovereignty another. The division of one thing into two, through which something or “Therefore I am now going to allure her; I someone passes, is a symbolic enactment of will lead her into the wilderness and speak transition, as it was for Abraham in the passage in tenderly to her . Secular of Bamidbar, with its emphasis on equality, ts distinctions of rank and status disappear or are perfectly Turner’s description of communitas, the homogenised.” People cast together in the no- ideal state people only experience in liminal space man’s-land of the desert experience the “essential where they have left the past (Egypt) behind but and generic human bond.” That is what he means have not yet reached their future destination, the by communitas, a rare and special state in which, land of Israel. Liminal Space 2 Bamidbar fi fl fi fi fi fi ff fl Yet Bamidbar opens, as does the book of Bereishit, Judaism never forgot its vision of natural and with a scene of blessed order, there natural, here social harmony, set out respectively in the social, there divided into six days, here into twelve beginnings of the books of Genesis and Numbers, (2×6) tribes, each person in Bamidbar like each as if to say that what once was could be again, if species in Bereishit, in his or her rightful place, only we heed the word of God. So the wilderness was not just a place; it was a state of being, a moment of solidarity, midway between enslavement in Egypt and the social inequalities that would later emerge in Israel, an ideal neve

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Covenant & Conversation

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6 июня 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary