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Covenant & Conversation — Va'etchanan 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Va'etchanan 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. and understanding in the eyes of the So, for instance, in 1985 Ronald Reagan spoke of nations, who will hear about all these America as “one people under God, dedicated to decrees and say, “Surely this great nation the dream of freedom that He has placed in the is a wise and understanding people!” For human heart, called upon now to pass that what other nation has decrees and laws dream onto a waiting and hopeful world.” as just as this Torah that I am setting In his Inaugural in 1989, George Bush prayed: before you today? Amen.” when the idea of a nation founded on a covenant In 1997, Bill Clinton said: with God would inspire other nations with its vision of a society based not on a hierarchy of “The promise we sought in a new land power but on the equal dignity of all under the we will nd again in a land of new sovereignty and in the image of God; and on the promise.” rule of justice and compassion. on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the However, as contemporary tyrannies have image of the Maker of Heaven and earth.” discovered, it is hard to stop the spread of information that new technologies make In 2009 Barack Obama ended his speech with possible. English Bibles continued to be printed these words: and sold in massive numbers, most notably the Geneva translation of 1560 that was read by “Let it be said by our children’s children Shakespeare, Cromwell, Milton, and John that when we were tested we refused to Donne, as well as by the early English settlers of let this journey end, that we did not turn America. This applied in particular future generations.” to the story of the Hebrew midwives, Shifra and Puah (Exodus chapter) - the rst recorded This is explicitly religious language, without instance of civil disobedience, the refusal to parallel in any other democratic society in the obey an immoral order. It began with the invention says “their disobedience in this was lawful.” of printing by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainzin in When Pharaoh then commands the Egyptians to 1439, followed in England in 1476 by William drown male Israelite children, the Geneva Bible Caxton. Nelson argues that the

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Covenant & Conversation

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15 августа 2024 г.

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4

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary