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Covenant & Conversation — Shoftim 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Shoftim 5784. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/shoftim/power-or-self-restraint/ Power from the Outside or Self-Restraint from Within 3 Shoftim fi fi fi ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Power from the Outside or Self-Restraint from Within This summer, we've seen riots on the streets of reasons, they have led to the worst, and strangest, London and Manchester on the one hand, Tripoli riots in a generation. However, it seems to be a might have thought, to bring about political shared assumption that the only way you stop change, but they have done so in one country after people robbing one another or killing one another another in the Middle East – rst Tunisia, then is by the use of force. meant when they said kol yisrael arevin zeh bazeh, This is not the place to go into the famous “All Israel are responsible for one another.” disagreement among the commentators as to Responsibility in Judaism belongs to all of us and whether appointing a king is a command or not. I have argued, in many of these essays Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev once said: and several of my books, that the only country “Master of the universe, in Russia there is a Czar, today that retains a covenantal view of politics is an army and a police force, but still in Russian the United States. The Jewish speeches of the nineteenth century, that Abraham people has no Czar, no army and no police force, Lincoln articulated the fundamental idea of but try nding bread in a Jewish home on Pesach!” covenant, that when there is “government of the What Moses understood in a way that has no people, by the people, for the people,” there is a parallel elsewhere is that there are only two ways new birth of freedom. By strong families and strong communities and schools that teach children the law, and by parents teaching their children that “when you sit in your house or when you walk by the way, when you live down and when you rise up.” Around the Shabbat Table 1. In the

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Covenant & Conversation

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5 сентября 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary