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The Yeshiva.net — hiva.net — Shemos 5781

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — hiva.net — Shemos 5781. Темы: family_education, health_mind. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. During World War Two, I hid a Jew in my attic." "Well," answered the priest, "that's not a sin." "But I made him agree to pay me $50 for every week he stayed." "I admit that wasn't good, but you did it for a good cause." "Oh, thank you, Father; that eases my mind. I have one more question..." "What is that, my son?" "Do I have to tell him the war is over?" Two Incidents of Violence In this week’s portion (Shemos) the Hebrew Bible introduces us to Moses, through two incidents (Exodus, Chapter 2): “It happened in those days that Moses grew up and he went out to his brethren and observed their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man of his brethren. On the first and most basic level, Jewish exile – from Egypt till today – has been defined by the “Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man.” Persecution, abuse, oppression, expulsion, random torture and murders, even genocide, have been the fate of the Jewish people from Pharaoh to Hitler. But the most fateful injuries have been those the Jewish people has inflicted on itself: the division of the kingdom in the days of the First Temple, which brought about the eventual defeat of both halves and the loss of ten of the twelve tribes; the internecine rivalry in the last days of the Second Temple, which brought about the destruction of Jerusalem and the longest exile in Jewish—indeed, in human—history. The Jewish people has often been threatened by hostile civilizations, from ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome, to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century, and by fundamentalist Islam in our own times. However, discord within the Jewish people – the strife and mistrust between communities as well as the animosity within communities and families – is a silent disease that eats up at our core, and does not allow us to experience liberation. https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/876/print-view 1/3 1/5/24, 12:16 PM TheYeshiva.net Two Conditions of Exile Exile for the Jewish people consists of two dynamics – oppression from without and erosion from within. It is no coincidence that these are the only two vignettes the Bible shares with us concerning M

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The Yeshiva.net

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24 декабря 2021 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind