{"id":45077,"date":"2018-12-02T19:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T17:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45077"},"modified":"2022-06-26T17:41:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T14:41:28","slug":"circumcised-and-circumscribed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/circumcised-and-circumscribed\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumcised And Circumscribed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[549,395,480,381,574],"acf":{"old_id":"45077","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"102","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Uniting the life of the soul with the passions of the body, and governing both with humility, self-restraint and love","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sign of the covenant is circumcision, the commandment given in the first chapter of this week\u2019s parsha, Tazria. For faith to be more than the worship of power, it must affect the most intimate relationship between men and women. In a society founded on covenant, male-female relationships are built on something other and gentler than male dominance, masculine power, sexual desire and the drive to own, control and possess. The alpha male must become the caring husband. Sex must be sanctified and tempered by mutual respect. The sexual drive must be circumcised and circumscribed so that it no longer seeks to possess, and is instead content to love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is thus more than an accidental connection between monotheism and monogamy. Although biblical law does not command monogamy, it nonetheless depicts it as the normative state from the start of the human story: Adam and Eve, one man, one woman. Whenever in Genesis a patriarch marries more than one woman there is tension and anguish. The commitment to one God is mirrored in the commitment to one person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The love of husband and wife \u2013 a love at once personal and moral, passionate and responsible \u2013 is as close as we come to understanding God\u2019s love for us and our ideal love for Him. When Hosea says, \u201cYou will know the Lord,\u201d he does not mean knowledge in an abstract sense. He means the knowledge of intimacy and relationship, the touch of two selves across the metaphysical abyss that separates one consciousness from another. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is the meaning of one of the definitive sentences in Judaism: \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength\u201d (Deut. 6:5).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judaism from the beginning made a connection between sexuality and violence on the one hand, marital faithfulness and social order on the other. Not by chance is marriage called kiddushin, \u201csanctification.\u201d Like covenant itself, marriage is a pledge of loyalty between two parties, each recognizing the other\u2019s integrity, honouring their differences even as they come together to bring new life into being. Marriage is to society what covenant is to religious faith: a decision to make love \u2013 not power, wealth or force majeure \u2013 the generative principle of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as spirituality is the most intimate relationship between us and God, so sex is the most intimate relationship between us and another person. Circumcision is the eternal sign of Jewish faith because it unites the life of the soul with the passions of the body, reminding us that both must be governed by humility, self-restraint and love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">From: The Circumcision of Desire (Covenant &amp; Conversation, Tazria-Metzora 5775)<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":93326,"id":93326,"title":"pro30-man woman couple love","filename":"pro30-man-woman-couple-love.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/of-eagles-snakes-ships-and-lovers\/pro30-man-woman-couple-love\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"pro30-man-woman-couple-love","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":93325,"date":"2021-05-23 12:05:47","modified":"2022-08-28 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