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Covenant & Conversation — sation Behaalotecha — Behaalotcha 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — sation Behaalotecha — Behaalotcha 5783. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. think, “If I haven’t yet reached this point, I’m okay.” Whenever I felt that way, I would turn to the searing Somehow the knowledge that the greatest Jewish leader moment in our parsha when Moses reached his lowest of all time had experienced this depth of darkness was ebb. 130:1) heights but they remained the same recalcitrant, ungrateful, small-minded people they had been before.2 “I am a helpless man abandoned among the dead … You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the That was what made Moses feel that his entire mission dark, in the depths.” (Ps. It is specifically at this point in the and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us long biblical account of Moses’ life that the Torah says, out into this desert to starve this whole “The man Moses was very humble, more so than any assembly to death.” (Ex. stranger, the orphan and the widow”) in festive That is what Rabbi Yochanan meant when he said, celebrations, and offering hospitality – an act said to be “Greatness is humility.”3 Greatness is a life turned “greater than receiving the Shechinah.” Precisely outward, so that other people’s suffering matters to you because depression isolates you from others, remaining more than your own. Then He tells him not to be anxious about the 2 Note that the text attributes the complaint to the asafsuf, the rabble, the riffraff, which some commentators take to mean the “mixed multitude” who joined the Israelites on the Exodus. BEHA’ALOTECHA • ‫בהעלתך‬ STUDIES IN SPIRITUALITY With thanks to the Schimmel Family for their generous sponsorship of Covenant & Conversation, dedicated in loving memory of Harry (Chaim) Schimmel. If this is what are the divisions between people, how intractable are You are doing to me, then, if I have found favour the problems we face, and how thin the ice on which we in Your eyes, kill me now, and let me not look stand. It is when your journey from despair to self-effacing strength is one of self-esteem is ground to dust that you suddenly realise the great psychological narratives in the Torah, a that life is not about you. In the next chapter, when his Exodus the people had made the same comp

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Covenant & Conversation

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9 июня 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary