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Covenant & Conversation — holiness-and-childbirth-tazria-metzora-5786

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — holiness-and-childbirth-tazria-metzora-5786. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. To be sure, we can never know – speci cally with respect to The laws with which the Parsha begins laws that have to do are striking examples of this: with kedushah (holiness) When a woman conceives and gives and teharah (purity) – whether our understanding is correct. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Holiness and Childbirth The sidrot of Tazria and Metzora contain matter, unconsciously wishes to laws which are among the most di cult reconcile two opposites, namely, to be to understand. we are physical beings, embodied souls, Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed, III:12 and hence exposed to (in Hamlet’s words) “the thousand natural shocks that esh is Throughout history there have been two heir to.” distinct and opposing ways of relating to Though we have immortal longings, this fact: hedonism (living for physical mortality is the condition of human pleasure) and asceticism (relinquishing existence, as it is of all embodied life. We have already shown that, in accordance with the Divine wisdom, The Jewish way has always been di erent: genesis can only take place through to sanctify the physical – eating, destruction, and without the drinking, sex and rest – making the life of destruction of the individual members the body a vehicle for the Divine Presence. “It is not the dead Judaism is the supreme religion of life, who praise the Lord, nor those who go and its adherents are therefore hyper- down into silence” (Psalm 114) “What sensitive to even the most subtle pro t is there in my death, if I go down distinctions between life and death. the Torah goes to great lengths to It follows that kedushah (holiness) – a describe how many of the heroines of the point in time or space where we stand in Bible – among them Sarah, Rebecca, the unmediated presence of God – Rachel, Hannah and the Shunamite involves a supreme consciousness of life. leaving Eden, Adam turns to his wife and The Kuzari, II:60 calls her Chava “for she is the mother of all life.” The laws of purity apply exclusively to Israel, argues Halevi, precisely because Holiness and Childbirth 3 Ta

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Covenant & Conversation

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17 апреля 2026 г.

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4

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary