{"id":44613,"date":"2018-11-26T18:36:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=44613"},"modified":"2022-06-20T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T14:24:07","slug":"let-the-ritual-do-the-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/let-the-ritual-do-the-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Let The Ritual Do The Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[448,548],"acf":{"old_id":"44613","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"98","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A minimum of preaching, and a maximum of interpretation","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What an august and majestic moment it must have been! Gathering the people together at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, with Aaron and his sons in waiting, Moses brings out the anointing oil, the priestly vestments, the bulls for sacrifice, the basket of matzot and engages in an elaborate ritual of washing, clothing, and anointing the priestly family who will make the offerings on behalf of the children of Israel from that day forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All in silence!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone who has witnessed the coronation of the Kings and Queens of England, for example, or the ceremonies launching a new Pope, or the inauguration of the President of the United States, are accustomed to a great many words. Those words make explicit the intended message of the moment \u2013 what is signified, and how we are to understand that actions transpiring before us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But all those words, in addition to being a bit coercive (in telling us what we must think or how we ought to understand what is happening) also reveal a lack of trust. Someone doesn\u2019t have faith in the power of ritual, its capacity to enlist the imagination, its magical ability to mean for each observer something slightly different, a distinct message designed uniquely for each particular person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Torah doesn\u2019t make that mistake. Instead, it describes without comment, the glorious and dramatic events of the initiation and consecration of Aaron and his children into the posts of High Priest and officiants for ancient Israel\u2019s sacrifices. And it respects the individuals \u2013 those in attendance then, and those reading the texts today \u2013 to bring the entire person to the moment. Each of us is given leave, indeed, is forced, to read our own meanings into this sacred transition. And in refraining from comment, the Torah expects us to step into the ritual and bestow precisely the significance we each need to derive from the moment for our own spiritual thriving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lesson is clear: a minimum of preaching, and a maximum of interpretation. A verbal <em>tsimtsum<\/em> (withdrawing) to make room for expansive soul formation. That has been the genius of priestly Judaism, bestowed through its heirs, the rabbis, to the Jewish people across the ages. 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