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Covenant & Conversation — Chukas 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Chukas 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. As for the ritual of the Red Heifer, this is directed That, as we can now see, is the logic of the chukim, at the most destructive pre-rational instinct of all: the “statutes” of Judaism, the laws that seem to what Sigmund Freud called thanatos, the death make no sense in terms of rationality. He described it as something “more laws like the prohibition of sowing mixed seeds primitive, more elementary, more instinctual than together (kelayim); of wearing cloth of mixed wool the pleasure principle which it over-rides”.2 In his and linen (shaatnez); and of eating milk and meat essay Civilisation and Its Discontents, he wrote together. It was We know for example – Jared Diamond has probably to avoid the tomb of Moses becoming a chronicled this in his book Collapse – that holy site that the Torah says, “to this day no one wherever humans have settled throughout history knows where his grave is” (Deut. Freud was right to The prohibitions against sowing mixed seeds, suggest that the death instinct is powerful, mixing meat and milk, combining wool and linen, irrational, and largely unconscious, yet under and so on, create an instinctual respect for the certain conditions it can be utterly devastating in integrity of nature. The result is a personality understand today better than any previous trained to see death and holiness as two utterly generation: Without a sense of limits, we will opposed states – just as meat (death) and milk (life) are. The law of the Red Heifer with which our that “a portion of the [death] instinct is diverted parsha begins, is described as the chok par towards the external world and comes to light as excellence. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks This year's series of essays and videos were originally written and recorded by Rabbi Sacks zt"l in 5771 (2010–2011). The French It is less reason than emotion that lies behind our Enlightenment emphasised the role of reason and choices, and it takes emotional intelligence to 1 David Brooks, The Social Animal, Random House, 2011, x. ________

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Covenant & Conversation

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12 июля 2024 г.

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3

Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary