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Covenant & Conversation — nt and conversations — Va'eira 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — nt and conversations — Va'eira 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. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/shemot/jewish-leadership/ 1 Christopher Dawson, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, New York: Doubleday, 1991, p. I appeared of the sun, the god of the rain, the goddesses of the sea to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as E-l and the earth, the vast pantheon of forces responsible Shaddai, but by My name 'Hashem' I did not for harvests, fertility, storms, droughts, and so on. 12:7), Vayera For the first time in history God was about to get Hashem el Avram: “Hashem appeared to Abram and involved in history, not through natural disasters like said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So God the Flood, but by direct interaction with the people who had appeared to Avram as Hashem. entire nation from slavery and servitude, persuade them to follow Him into the desert, and eventually to the Yet it is clear from what God says to Moses that Promised Land, and there build a new kind of society, something new is about to happen, a Divine revelation based not on power but on justice, welfare, respect for of a kind that had never happened before, something the dignity of the human person and on collective that no one, not even the people closest to God, has yet responsibility for the rule of law. It we read Vaera and recall the moment history was born, was going to become the stage on which God and the moment God entered history and taught us for all humanity would journey together toward the day when time that slavery, oppression, injustice, are not written all human beings - regardless of class, colour, creed, or into the fabric of the cosmos, engraved into the human culture - would achieve their full dignity as the image condition. To the contrary, God’s first words to the Israelites is radically different, and it’s only because Abraham, “Leave your land, your birthplace and your we are so used to the story that we find it hard to see father’s house,” were said using the name Hashem. God was idea was born when God

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Covenant & Conversation

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary