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Covenant & Conversation — Vayakhel/Pekudei 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Vayakhel/Pekudei 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. These are From it we get the words kahal and kehillah, meaning where the kehillah lives most powerfully: on Shabbat !community.” Far from being merely an ancient when we lay aside our private devices and desires and concern, it remains at the heart of our humanity. In 2000, Robert Putnam of Harvard published Bowling Something similar is true about the synagogue – the Alone, an account of how more Americans than ever Jewish institution, unique in its day, that was were going ten-pin bowling, but fewer were joining eventually adopted by Christianity and Islam in the bowling clubs and leagues. Regular attendees at a by the destruction of the subtle ties that bind human place of worship were – so his research showed – beings to one another, leaving them frightened and more likely than others to give money to charity, alone.”[1] engage in voluntary work, donate blood, spend time with someone who is depressed, offer a seat to a That is why the two themes of parshat Vayakhel – stranger, help find someone a job, and many other Shabbat and the Mishkan (today, the synagogue) – measures of civic, moral, and philanthropic activism. There is such a thing as !social contagion.” We increase in brain size represented by Homo sapiens are profoundly influenced by our friends – as indeed was specifically to allow us to form more extended Maimonides states in his law code, the Mishneh social networks. The same applies to ______ drinking, slenderness, obesity, and many other [1] Robert Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and behavioural patterns.[4] We become like the people Commitment in American Life (Berkeley: University of we are close to. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks The Social Animal At the beginning of this parsha Moses performs a Note, too, exactly what Moses does in this parsha. VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI • ‫ויקהל־פקודי‬ STUDIES IN SPIRITUALITY With thanks to the Schimmel Family for their generous sponsorship of Covenant & Conversation, dedicated in loving memory of Harry (Chaim) Schimmel. Rober

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Covenant & Conversation

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16 марта 2023 г.

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3

Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary