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Covenant & Conversation — Emor 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Emor 5783. Темы: shabbat_laws, family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: шаббат, законы шаббата, melacha, hilchot shabbat, שבת, הלכות שבת, מלאכה, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites within your gates, and the stranger, the This leaves three other festival accounts, the one in orphan, and the widow living among you.” our parsha, a second one in Numbers 28-29, and the Deuteronomy is less about individual spirituality third in Deuteronomy 16. There are seven holy days specified in our parsha: the first and seventh day of There is then a paragraph break, after which the Pesach, one day of Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom whole passage seems to begin again: Kippur, the first day of Succot, and Shemini Atzeret. is strange is the way it speaks about Shabbat: One of Deuteronomy’s most important themes is its The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the insistence that worship be centralised “in the place Israelites and say to them: The appointed that God will choose,” which turned out to be times [moadei] of the Lord, which you are to Jerusalem. These are the Lord’s appointed times On six of them we are allowed to do some work, such [mo’adei] festivals, the sacred assemblies as cooking and carrying, but on the seventh, Yom [mikra’ei kodesh] you are to proclaim [tikre’u] Kippur, we are not, because it is a “Sabbath of at their appointed times [be-mo’adam]. Even more puzzling was the fact that avodah (“burdensome or servile work”), whereas on the Torah here seems to be calling Shabbat a mo’ed, the seventh day what is forbidden is melachah, “any an appointed time, and a mikra kodesh, a sacred work” even if not burdensome. The word “seven” or “seventh” occurs the Sabbath because it is God-given, but the festivals repeatedly (eighteen times) as does the word for the are of an altogether lesser sanctity, first because we seventh day, Shabbat in one or other of its forms are permitted certain kinds of work, such as cooking (fifteen times). Shabbat that almost the entire forty chapters between Exodus is stated before the festivals just as it is stated before 24 and Leviticus 25 are a digression, brought about Moses’ instructions to the people to begin work on because Moses argued that the people neede

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Covenant & Conversation

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4 мая 2023 г.

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Темы: shabbat_laws, family_education, parsha_commentary