Devarim--plus Tisha B'Av--coming very late this year. Berkshires has an unusual ending this year--last day of regular activities is either Sunday August 11 or Monday August 12, some possible classes on Tisha B'Av on August 13, packing for heading home on August 14, and leaving camp (the Exodus) on August 15.
"...The reason why we have to imagine that we left Egypt is because we identify that with the saving power of God. We don't identify the other things that we've mentioned with the saving power of God and that's why we don't imagine ourselves in those situations...We don't imagine being slaves really--we imagine coming out of Egypt. Those are two different experiences..." Very well put
rabbi Kalmanofsky, do you admit that Zionism and the zionist regime that caused the 75-year of brutal occupation of Palestinians Muslim and Christian, is the source and the cause of all the terrible things happening in Palestine today?
I listened to this carefully. I was wandering on internet looking for a religious perspective from some religious Jews on the ongoing situation of Israel, then I came to this. From this discussion, what I understand is that Jews people consider themselves to be the only choosen people of God and they consider Israel to be a land choosen specially for them. The thing I am confused about whether do Jews differentiate between a Jew who follows the laws of God and a Jew who doesn't follow the laws/even doesn't believe in the existence of God? Are both of them choosen by God as they are Jews in origin? Can an atheist of jewish origin be someone of choosen people? Another thing I am wondering about what religious Jews think about the way of occupying the lands from the people who are already living there? An Palestinian living in his land for centuries, then a Jew comes to occupy that land as God has given this land to him. Then what os the way of occupying that land according to Jewish religion? I hope you you will spend some time help me understanding the Jewish points.
You are asking the wrong people.. These prophet killers will always justify their actions no matter what.. They were stiff necked people 2500 years ago and they haven't changed..
I think we all tend to d'rash the so-called meraglim in Parshat Shelach (as opposed to the more accurately described meraglim in this week's HT) through a contemporary lens - attempting to understand what the drivers (such as fear, lack of emuna, etc.) were for those 10 guys. But if we consider Torah (and torah) as a sort of survival manual, there's a powerful takeaway from this story: this is what can happen when a group of politicians get together and create an alternate reality and then sell this fiction it to the people - it can result in the inability of an entire society to move forward together or at all; and, in that case, to be kept wandering in circles in the wilderness (actual or figurative) for 38 years. Shabbat shalom, Michael
Justice for Shireen ABU AKLEH!! Nazi regime was disgusting....why do you treat Palestinians with such hatred? YOU HAVE LOST THE WAR OF PUBLIC OPINION WITH YOUR APARTHEID REGIME!!
To Barry's point as to whether or not people living during the Civil War believed the war was inevitable--really nothing is "inevitable" until it suddenly is. But I do think and I'm sure that none of them foresaw the suffering that the Civil War would cause, none of them believed it would last as long as it did, and certainly none of them imagined the kind of modern war that would unfold before their eyes, a war that is still the bloodiest in American history