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Covenant & Conversation — Ki Sisa 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Ki Sisa 5783. 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. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks The Closeness of God The more I study the Torah, the more conscious I “If Your presence does not go with us, do not make become of the immense mystery of Exodus 33. experienced You as a terrifying, elemental force, When it is finished and assembled we read this: delivering plague after plague to the Egyptians, bringing the world’s greatest empire to its knees, Then the Cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, dividing the sea, overturning the very order of nature and the glory of the Lord filled the Mishkan. God to come closer to the people, so that they would encounter Him, not only at unrepeatable moments in That is why Moses removed his tent and pitched it the form of miracles, but regularly, on a daily basis, outside the camp, as if to say to God: It is not my and not only as a force that threatens to obliterate all presence the people need in their midst, but Yours. Applied to God, as 1 He famously said, at the end of A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam Books, 1988), that if we were to reach a full scientific understanding of the cosmos, we would “know the mind of God.” The Closeness of God 2 Ki Tissa discussed last week in parshat Terumah, it means that between two infatuated lovers. The Zohar, key “the presence that is close.” If this is so – and it is text of Jewish mysticism, uses the most daring the way Judah Halevi understood the text2 – then the language of passion, as does Yedid Nefesh, the poem entire institution of the Mishkan was a Divine attributed to the sixteenth-century Safed kabbalist, response to the sin of the Golden Calf, and an Rabbi Elazar Azikri. 33:5) In verse 14, God says, “My presence will go with you.” In verse 15, Moses says, There are many ways of reading this cryptic text, but it seems to me that the most powerful and simple The Closeness of God 1 Ki Tissa interpretation is this. 40:34–35) greatness of God but the closeness of God, not God heard in thunder and lightning at the top of the We now understand the entire drama set in motio

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Covenant & Conversation

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9 марта 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary