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Covenant & Conversation — Bo 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Bo 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, 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 March of Folly There is a fascinating moment in the unfolding story of Back in 1984 the historian Barbara Tuchman published a the plagues that should make us stop and take notice. that his enslavement of a people was no longer tolerable, that the old magic no longer worked, that the What fascinated me, and perhaps I should have empire over which he presided was growing old, and understood this earlier, was that it portrayed Pharaoh that the more obstinate he became the closer he was not as an evil man but as a deeply conservative one, bringing his people to tragedy. were thirty Greek soldiers who, that night, came out of hiding and opened the city gates for the Greek army that Pharaoh’s own advisors tell him he is making a mistake: had sailed back under cover of night. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/bo/the-march-of-folly/ The March of Folly 2 Bo But as soon as the plague is over, he changes his mind: What she was talking about were decisions that people “He and his officials” says the Torah, “hardened could see at the time were the wrong ones. charged with maintaining what was already the longest-lived empire of the ancient world, and not Knowing how to listen to advice, how to respond to allowing it, as it were, to be undermined by change. BO • ‫בא‬ With thanks to the Schimmel Family for their generous sponsorship of Covenant & Conversation, dedicated in loving memory of Harry (Chaim) Schimmel. And now Moses and Aaron have come to warn of a Eventually they appeared to give up and sail away, further plague, potentially devastating, a plague of leaving behind them a giant wooden horse. The producer, Jeffrey Katzenberg, invited me to Yet Pharaoh remains an enduring symbol of a failure to see the film when it was about half complete, to see listen to his own advisors. He could not see that the whether I felt that it was a responsible and sensitive way world had changed, that he was facing something new, of telling the story, which I thought it

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Covenant & Conversation

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19 января 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary