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Covenant & Conversation — Vayishlach 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Vayishlach 5784. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות. Jacob rebukes his sons: Many years and fifteen chapters later, on his death-bed, he curses the two brothers for their behaviour: "You have brought trouble on me - you have made me odious to the inhabitants of the land, Simon and Levi are brothers; weapons of the Canaanites and Perizzites. And it is on this basis that all the people household [to commit a sin] but does not, is of Shechem were guilty of death (at the hands of seized for [the sins of] his household; [if he can Simon and Levi, sons of Jacob): because forbid] his fellow citizens, he is seized for [the Shechem (their Prince) stole (and raped) Dina, sins of] his fellow citizens; if the whole world, he which they saw and knew about, but did not is seized for [the sins of] the whole world. We know that there is a principle of collective responsibility in Jewish law: Kol There exists a solidarity among men as human Yisrael arevin zeh bazeh, “All Jews are sureties for one beings that makes each co-responsible for every another.” But is this specific to Judaism? One of Israel’s most profound moralists, the late Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994), wrote that though there may have been an ethical justification for what Simon and Levi did, “there is also an ethical postulate which is not itself a matter of rationalisation and which calls forth a curse upon all these justified and valid considerations.”2 Around the Shabbat Table 1. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/vayishlach/collective-responsibility/ 1 Karl Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt, Trans. Is it because of wrong and every injustice in the world, the peculiar nature of Jewish law, namely that it flows especially if a crime is committed in his from a covenant between God and the Israelites at presence or with his knowledge. It is one thing to commit a crime, another knowing that their prince had committed a crime and to witness someone committing a crime and failing to failing to bring him to court, were collectively guilty of prevent it. Nor could there be, for if Simon and Levi were justified, as M

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Covenant & Conversation

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1 декабря 2023 г.

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3

Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit