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Covenant & Conversation — The-Sound-of-Silence-Bamidbar 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — The-Sound-of-Silence-Bamidbar 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. But in a to the Mechilta, the Torah was given publicly, later age, when the Prophet Elijah stood at the openly, and in a place no one owns because had it same mountain after his confrontation with the been given in the Land of Israel, Jews would have prophets of Baal, he encountered God not in the said to the nations of the world, “You have no whirlwind or the fire or the earthquake but in the share in it.” Instead, whoever wants to come and kol demamah dakah, the still, small voice, literally accept it, let them come and accept it.1 “the sound of a slender silence” (1 Kings 19:9-12).” I define this as the sound you can only Another explanation: Had the Torah been given in hear if you are listening. Earlier when the angels comfort him after the loss of his children and came to visit Abraham and told him that Sarah other afflictions, “they sat down with him on the would have a child, Sarah laughed inwardly, that ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no is, silently, yet she was heard by God (Gen. modern age have found the concept of “Torah From time to time we need to step back from the from Heaven” problematic, not because of some noise and hubbub of the social world and create in new archaeological discovery but because we have our hearts the stillness of the desert where, within lost the habit of listening to the sound of the silence, we can hear the kol demamah dakah, transcendence, a voice beyond the merely human. the still, small voice of God, telling us we are It is fascinating that despite his often-fractured loved, we are heard, we are embraced by God’s relationship with Judaism, Sigmund Freud created everlasting arms, we are not alone.6 Around the Shabbat Table 1. The Zohar (2a) Judaism?" Wiesel replied: “Judaism is full of speaks of silence as the medium in which both the silences … but we don’t talk about them.” Sanctuary above and the Sanctuary below are Judaism is a very verbal culture, a religion of holy made. “The dead do not praise you,” says ran out and the young Ishmael was at the point of Psalm 1

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Covenant & Conversation

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19 мая 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary