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The Yeshiva.net — Kedoshim 5784

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — Kedoshim 5784. Темы: relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/841/essay-parshas-kedoshim-when-g-d-becomes-an-excuse-for-fear 1/3 5/5/24, 7:05 PM TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi YY Jacobson This is true for religious and secular people; for believers and self-proclaimed atheists or agnostics. Never say, “This is the way I am; this is the way I do things, I cannot change.” Never think, “This is the world view I am comfortable with; any other way must be wrong.” Rather, muster the courage to challenge every instinct, temptation, and convention; question every dogma, including dogmas that speak in the name of open-mindedness, and are embraced simply because you fall back on that which you have been taught again and again. The common Yiddish term for G-d used by some of the greatest Jewish mystics, thinkers, and holy men and women is “Oybershter,” which means “higher.” Not Creator, not Master, not All- https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/841/essay-parshas-kedoshim-when-g-d-becomes-an-excuse-for-fear 2/3 5/5/24, 7:05 PM TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi YY Jacobson Powerful, but “Higher.” What this term represents is this idea: I do not know what He is; all I know is that whatever my definition of truth and reality, whatever my definition for G-d -- He is “higher” than that. [3] This is a common theme in the writings of Maimonidies in his “Guide to the Perplexed.” See at length Likkutei Torah Parshas Pekudei and references noted there [4] I heard this insight from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Sichas Shabbas Parshas Toldos 5751 (1991). What this biblical verse – “Do not make yourselves gods out of cast metal” -- is telling us is not to construct a god of a lifestyle and a weltanschauung that has become like “cast metal;” one that is cast and solidified in a fixed mold. There comes a point I need to open myself up to the possibility that perhaps my purpose in life is completely different than what I imagined; I need to stop asking what I want from G-d and start asking what G-d wants from me. To be open to the G-d of the Torah means to be open to never-ending mystery, infinite grandeur, limitless sublimity, and possibility; it is the profound readiness at every moment of life to ope

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5 мая 2024 г.

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Темы: relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary