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Covenant & Conversation — Kedoshim 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Kedoshim 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. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Judaism's Three Voices The nineteenth chapter of Vayikra, with which our To understand this we have to engage in an parsha begins, is one of the supreme statements of enormous leap of insight into the unique moral/ the ethics of the Torah. Several books of Tanach, most conspicuously Overwhelmingly elsewhere in the Torah the verb Proverbs and Ecclesiastes (Mishlei and Kohelet), are lehavdil and the root kadosh occur in a priestly books of “wisdom” of which the supreme exemplar context; and it is the priests who bless the people. code sees love and justice as part of a total vision of The key terms for the prophet are tzedek (distributive an ordered universe in which each thing, person and justice), mishpat (retributive justice), chessed (loving act has their rightful place, and it is this order that is kindness) and rachamim (mercy, compassion). The threatened when the boundary between di erent prophet has emotional intelligence, sympathy and kinds of animals, grain, fabrics is breached; when the empathy, and feels the plight of the lonely and human body is lacerated; or when people eat blood, oppressed. The key activities of the priest are “almost fanatical love of justice.” We are far less lehavdil – to discriminate, distinguish and divide – familiar with the priestly idea that just as there is a and lehorot – to instruct people in the law, both scienti c order to nature, so there is a moral order, generally as teachers and in speci c instances as and it consists in keeping separate the things that are judges. Perhaps the idea of ecology, one of the key discoveries of modern times, will allow us to understand better the priestly vision and its code of holiness, both of which see ethics not just as practical wisdom or prophetic justice but also as honouring the deep structure – the sacred ontology – of being. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/kedoshim/judaisms-three-voices/ Ju

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Covenant & Conversation

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9 мая 2024 г.

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3

Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary