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Covenant & Conversation — Noach 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Noach 5784. Темы: family_education, health_mind. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. The Rome story – of children universal covenant with Noah and the particular fathered by one of the gods, left to die by their uncle, covenant with one people, comes the strange, and brought up by wolves – is a typical founding myth, suggestive story of Babel: a legend told to explain the origins of a particular city, usually involving a hero, bloodshed, and the The whole world spoke the same language, the overturning of an established order. “went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.” We then read: Five chapters later comes the great scene in which God announces his plan to destroy the city, and Abraham Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave challenges him. relates it to the Hebrew root b-l-l, meaning “to confuse.” In the story, this refers to the confusion of The fourth scene is, of course, Egypt, where Joseph is languages that happens as a result of the hubris of the brought as a slave and serves in Potiphar’s house. But b-l-l also means “to mix, intermingle,” There, Potiphar’s wife attempts to seduce him, and and this is what the Babylonians are deemed guilty of: failing, accuses him of a crime he did not commit, for mixing heaven and earth, that should always be kept which he is sent to prison. B-l-l is the opposite of b-d-l, the key verb Genesis, unlike those in Exodus, do not speak of of Bereishit 1, meaning “to distinguish, separate, keep violence but, as the Joseph story makes pointedly clear, distinct and apart.” there is sexual license and injustice. The function of religion, from every quarter” – the text emphasises that without he believed, is to hold the group together, and the exception, every man was a would-be perpetrator of the objects of worship are collective representations of the crime. was only with the birth of agriculture and the division of labour, of trade and trading centres and economic Unlike the other three city stories, the builders of Babel surplus and marked inequalities of wealth, concentrated commit no obvious sin. Babel, in this respect, is the forerunner of today what they always were: sexual license, the the Egypt of the Pharaohs that we will encounter many

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Covenant & Conversation

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20 октября 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind