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Covenant & Conversation — fire-holy-and-unholy-shemini-5786

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — fire-holy-and-unholy-shemini-5786. 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. Nadav and Avihu died unauthorised, literally “strange,” re, because: they entered the Holy of Holies;1 meaning “that which was not they were not wearing the requisite commanded.” To understand the clothes;2 they took re from the kitchen, signi cance of this, we must go back to not the Altar;3 they did not consult Moses rst principles and remind ourselves of and Aaron;4 nor did they consult one the meaning of kadosh, “holy”, and thus another.5 of the Mikdash as the home of the holy. understand the apparent contradiction between Divine creation and human However, to be true to God’s purposes, freewill, or between Divine Presence and the there must be times and places at which empirical world in which we re ect, choose, humanity experiences the reality of the and act. The classic example of this is “holy war,” jihad, crusade – We err if we think of God as capricious, investing imperialism (the desire to rule jealous, angry: a myth spread by early over other people) with the cloak of Christianity in an attempt to de ne itself sanctity as if conquest and forced as the religion of love, superseding the conversion were God’s will. That is what Nadav and Avihu forgot – Aaron’s sons, Nadav and Avihu took that to enter holy space or time requires their censers, put re in them and ontological humility, the total added incense; and they o ered renunciation of human initiative and unauthorised re before God, which He desire. 10:1 will with our will, we turn the holy – the Fire: Holy and Unholy 4 Shemini ff ff fi ff fi fi fi fi fi fi fi ff fi fi fi fi Then there was the counter- re from Heaven: Fire came forth from before God, and it consumed them so that they died before God. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at https://rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/shemini/ re-holy-and-unholy/ Fire: Holy and Unholy 5 Shemini fi fl fi fi fl fi fi Not philosophical answer (I am thinking here accidentally but essentially, this can only of the mainstream of Western philosophy, take place through the total renunciation be

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Covenant & Conversation

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10 апреля 2026 г.

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5

Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary