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Covenant & Conversation — The-Power-of-Why-Vaetchanan — Va'etchanan 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — The-Power-of-Why-Vaetchanan — Va'etchanan 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. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks The Power of Why In a much-watched TED Talk, Simon Sinek asked the That is what made him the great transformational following question: how do great leaders inspire leader he was, and it has consequences for us, here, action?1 What made people like Martin Luther King and now. Indeed I argued in The Israelites must have seemed to the untutored eye Great Partnership3 what makes Abrahamic monotheism defenceless, unproven, one more horde among the different is that it believes there is an answer to the many who swept across Asia and Africa in ancient times. Therefore what we do as Jews makes a difference to humanity, not just in a Earlier though Moses had given a different kind of mystical sense, but as exemplars of what it means to answer, not incompatible with the second, but different: love and be loved by God. As the late Milton Himmelfarb put it: the Lord my God commanded me … Observe them The Power of Why 2 Va’etchanan Each Jew knows how thoroughly ordinary he is; yet abandon their faith or define their identity in purely taken together, we seem caught up in things great and ethnic terms. Ours is the testimony through the way we live that it is possible for vision that sees alleviation of poverty as a religious task a small people to survive and thrive under the most because, as Maimonides said, you cannot think exalted adverse conditions, to construct a society of law- spiritual thoughts if you are starving or sick or homeless governed liberty for which we all bear collective and alone.6 We do these things not because we are responsibility, and to “act justly, love mercy, and walk conservative or liberal, Republicans or Democrats, but humbly”5 with our God. hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and Judaism was and is a love story between God and a awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your particular people, often tempestuous, sometimes God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? There is much in

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Covenant & Conversation

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28 июля 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, relationships_shalom_bayit, parsha_commentary