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Covenant & Conversation — Matos-Massei 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Matos-Massei 5784. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. If Reuben killed Shimon and is A venerable old scholar said, ‘I heard an deemed innocent of murder by the court – it was explanation at one of the sessional lectures an accident, there was no malice aforethought, the of Rava, that the High Priest should have victim and perpetrator were not enemies – then prayed to God for mercy for his generation, there is still the danger that the family of the which he failed to do.’ victim may feel that justice has not been done. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/pinchas/pacing-change/ 1 For a further study of the contrasting approaches to events as either natural or supernatural, please refer to the essay Rabbi Sacks wrote on parshat Beshallach, re-shared earlier this year: rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/beshallach/the- power-of-ruach/. Only when both have undergone some precisely because it happens without anyone su ering, one by way of exile, the other by way of intending that it should, is the kind of event that (natural, not judicial) death, has the moral balance might have been averted by the prayers of the been restored. The person guilty of manslaughter goes into exile, not because it is a A person who killed another person form of expiation, but simply because it is safer unknowingly must go into exile because for him to be a long way from those who might be the anger of "the avenger of the blood" seeking vengeance. People are more able According to Maimonides, the death of the High to come to terms with the past when they are not Priest has nothing to do with guilt or atonement, reminded daily of it by seeing the person who, but simply with the fact that it causes a collective perhaps, was driving the car that killed their son grief so great that it causes people forget their own as he was crossing the road on a dark night, in misfortunes in the face of a larger national loss. This, as Maimonides says, is “a nonetheless be in accordance with natural law and natural phenomenon.” causation.1 This fundamental di erence

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Covenant & Conversation

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1 августа 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary