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Covenant & Conversation — Eikev 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Eikev 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. Many centuries later it was and settle down, and when your herds and articulated by the great 14th century Islamic ocks grow large and your silver and gold thinker, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), by the Italian increase and all you have is multiplied, political philosopher Giambattista Vico then your heart will become (1668-1744), and most recently by the Harvard proud and you will forget the Lord your historian Niall Ferguson. What Moses was saying to the new generation was this: You thought that the forty years of Vico described a similar cycle: wandering in the wilderness were the real “People rst sense what is necessary, challenge, and that once you conquer and settle then consider what is useful, next attend the land, your problems will be over. soon grow dissolute in luxury, and nally It will be precisely when all your physical needs go mad squandering their estates.” are met – when you have land and sovereignty Why Civilisations Fail 1 Eikev ffl fi fi ­ fi fi fi fi fl Bertrand Russell put it powerfully in the Inequalities will grow. As Moses makes clear associated with superstition; the towards the end of the book, in the long account liberation from fetters made individuals of the curses that would overcome the people if energetic and creative, producing a rare they lost their spiritual bearings, Israel would uorescence of genius; but the anarchy nd itself defeated and devastated. and treachery which inevitably resulted Only against this background can we from the decay of morals made Italians understand the momentous project the book of collectively impotent, and they fell, like Devarim is proposing: the creation of a society the Greeks, under the domination of capable of defeating the normal laws of the nations less civilised than themselves but growth-and-decline of civilisations. You may say to Ibn Khaldun argued similarly, that when a yourself, “My power and the strength of civilisation becomes great, its elites get used to my hands have produced this wealth for luxury and comfort, and the people as a whole me.” ... For an interactive, multi-generational study, ch

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Covenant & Conversation

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22 августа 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary