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Covenant & Conversation — Mishpotim 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Mishpotim 5783. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. The people they are our life and the length of our days; on them respond “together.” They do so “with one voice.” we will meditate day and night.”8 Yet others find Him The third, which refers not only to doing but also to 5 This is similar to the point made by Bernard Williams in his famous essay, “Moral Luck,” that there are certain decisions – his example is Gauguin’s decision to leave his career and family and go to Tahiti to paint – about which we cannot know whether they are the right decision until after we have taken them and seen how they work out. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks Doing and Hearing One of the most famous phrases in the Torah makes chronological sequence (using the principle that its appearance in this parsha. The first appears in the venishma mean not, “we will do and we will hear,” Babylonian Talmud,1 where it is taken to describe the but simply, “we will do and we will obey.” enthusiasm and whole-heartedness with which the Israelites accepted the covenant with God at Mount The second interpretation – not the plain sense of Sinai. 3 The word already carries this meaning in biblical Hebrew as in the story of the Tower of Babel, where God says, “Come let us confuse their language so that people will not be able to understand their neighbour.” 4 This is the famous phrase from Goethe’s Faust. only way to understand a way of life is to take the risk of living it.6 So: Na’aseh venishma, “We will do and By contrast, though there are undoubtedly principles eventually, through extended practice and long of Jewish faith, when it comes to spirituality there is no exposure, we will understand.” single normative Jewish approach. 19:8) sublime / Of something far more deeply interfused, / When Moses went and told the people all the Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, / And the Lord’s words and laws, they responded with round ocean and the living air.”7 Others find Him in one voice, “Everything the Lord has said we interpersonal emotion, in the experien

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Covenant & Conversation

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16 февраля 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary