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Covenant & Conversation — NGT — Ki Teitzei 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — NGT — Ki Teitzei 5783. Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Because of these substantive and linguistic parallels, the Ovadia Sforno suggests that the Ki Teitse prohibition attentive reader cannot help but hear in the law in our applies only when the transfer of the firstborn’s rights parsha a retrospective commentary on Jacob’s conduct happens because of the father favours one wife over vis-a-vis his own sons. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks The Limits of Love In a parsha laden with laws, one in particular is full of Judaism, marriage is seen as the foundation of society. If a man has two wives, one loved, the other unloved [senuah, literally “hated”], and both the What is extraordinary about it is that it seems to be in loved and the unloved bear him sons, but the the sharpest possible conflict with a major narrative in firstborn is the son of the unloved wife, then the Torah, namely Jacob and his two wives, Leah and when he wills his property to his sons, he must Rachel. When Jacob complained, “Why firstborn was entitled to a double share in his father’s have you deceived me?” Laban replied, with intentional inheritance.1 What the law tells us is that this is not at irony, “It is not done in our place to give the younger the father’s discretion. And [Jacob] went in also to Rachel, and he loved The opening three laws – a captive woman taken in the also Rachel more than Leah … God saw that Leah course of war, the above law about the rights of the was unloved [senuah] and He opened her womb, firstborn, and the “stubborn and rebellious son” – are but Rachel remained barren. The Sages said that they were given in this order to hint that someone Leah called her firstborn Reuben (“God has seen my who takes a captive woman will suffer from strife at suffering, maybe now my husband will love me,”), but home, and the result will be a delinquent son.2 In 1 This is already implicit in the story of Jacob, Reuben, and Joseph (see below). The unusual the Torah only while they were living in Israel itself.5 phrase “first of [his father

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Covenant & Conversation

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25 августа 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary