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Covenant & Conversation — ship-means-making-space-5784-Tetzaveh

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — ship-means-making-space-5784-Tetzaveh. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Leadership Means Making Space Tetzaveh is, as is well known, the parsha in which He will speak to the people for you, he will for once Moses take second place. There is, though, a deeper message, the principle There are many conjectures as to why this went to of the separation of powers, which opposes the Aaron as opposed to Moses himself, the most concentration of leadership into one person or obvious being that this was Moses’ punishment institution. Consider, first of all, the passage we’ve just seen from near the beginning of the book of Exodus, Leadership Means Making Space 1 Tetzaveh when God tells Moses that Aaron is “already on his Note how the Torah emphasises God’s insistence way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you.” that it be Moses who bestows this honour on These sound like simple words, but in reality they Aaron. Would it not have been natural for Aaron to be more than a little envious that his “And you shall command the Israelites to younger brother was about to become the leader bring you pure oil” (for the Menorah that he himself was not destined to be – all the more so Aaron and his sons would keep alight). 133:1 Moses must show the people – and Aaron himself – that he has the humility, the tzimtzum, the And in response, reading Bereishit, we are likely to power of self-effacement, needed to make space add, “and how rare.” for someone else to share in the leadership of the But now comes the second test, this time not of people. It has been a set of “And you shall speak to all the skilled variations on the theme of sibling rivalry: Cain and craftsmen whom I have endowed with a Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph spirit of wisdom, and ask them to make and his brothers. Moses is now being whose role is different from his, someone who commanded to create a form of leadership he may be more popular, closer to the people, than himself will never be able to exercise, that of the Moses is – as in fact Aaron turned out to be. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full e

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Covenant & Conversation

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23 февраля 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary