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Covenant & Conversation — Emor 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Emor 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. the concept of holiness: the seventh day, Shabbat; the seventh month, Tishri, with its By contrast, the Amidah for Rosh Hashanah and three festivals of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur Yom Kippur begins by speaking of “all You have and Succot; the seventh year, Shemittah; and the made, all You have created”. But glorious in its refusal to simplify the rich We encounter God in both cyclical time, which complexity of time: the ticking clock, the represents the movement of the planets, and growing plant, the ageing body, and the ever- linear-historical time, which represents the deepening mind. Since the ancient Greeks, people have searched for a single principle that would explain everything, or the single point Archimedes sought at which to move the world, or the unique perspective (what philosophers call “the view from nowhere”) from which to see truth in all its objectivity. morning prayer instituted by Abraham, Virtually every other religion and civilisation afternoon by Isaac, evening by Jacob – there is a before and since has identi ed God, reality, and sense in which the worship of the day starts in truth with timelessness. The festivals are sancti ed minim – the four species - is the only mitzvah by the Jewish people to whom was given the we do with unprocessed natural objects), and we authority and responsibility for xing the read the book of Kohelet, Tanach’s most calendar. These times (with the exception of Succot that Even Succot has a marked universalist thrust belongs to both cycles) have less to do with with its seventy sacri cial bulls representing the history than with what, for want of a better “seventy nations”. These are days that rst cycle and the second is to compare the represent the key historic moments at the dawn prayers on Pesach, Shavuot, and Succot with of Jewish time – the Exodus, the giving of the those of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/emor/the-duality-of-jewish-time/ The Duality of Jewish Time 3 Emor fi fi ff ff An extr

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Covenant & Conversation

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17 мая 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary