{"id":46939,"date":"2019-01-06T00:57:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=46939"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T07:09:50","slug":"law-grows-to-include-new-values-and-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/law-grows-to-include-new-values-and-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Grows To Include New Values And Insight"},"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":[662,444,436,597],"acf":{"old_id":"46939","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"126","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most sweeping innovations in the notion of law emerges around a relatively obscure biblical incident, that of the second Passover. A year after leaving Egypt, Moses reminds the Children of Israel that the Pesach festival is approaching, and that the sacrifice must be offered at the proper time. A group of men, however, were in a state of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tumah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ritual impurity) because they had attended to the burial of a corpse. Participating in a burial is one of the greatest deeds a person can perform, especially because it is a generosity that cannot be reciprocated. So the irony of being excluded from one of the most compelling ceremonies of the year because of having extended themselves in such a praiseworthy fashion is particularly galling. Something has to give.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUnclean though we are by reason of a corpse, why must we be debarred from presenting the Lord\u2019s offering at its set time with the rest of the Israelites? (7)\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impure men know the rule: the sacrifice must be offered on its proper date and may only be offered by those in a state of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tohorah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (ritual purity). They aren\u2019t asking to clarify the rule, and they are not claiming that it doesn\u2019t pertain to them. They are asking a question of equity, of fairness, and of a conflicting moral claim: it isn\u2019t fair that everyone else gets to participate and we have to miss it for a whole year, and, shouldn\u2019t the fact that our violation was in the pursuit of a mitzvah of the highest order override a merely ritual infraction? Why should a rule trump a principal? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The amazing response from the leadership (Moses) is: you might be right. Let me look into this! And look into means, let me talk to God. God\u2019s response is instant and clear: they are right, and we need to create a way to accommodate them. Even within the Torah, the law is not seen as some timeless, static set of ideals. From its inception it is an expression of the dynamic relationship connecting God and the Israelite people. It flows and grows based on our real-life experiences, new intuitions, clarified values or knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second Passover is a Torah assertion of the recognition that halakhah develops, has a history (and should have a history) and is not merely the receiving of eternal verities from on high. Instead, the model of holiness is one of engagement, responsiveness, and a sensitive integration of ritual profundity with ethical rigor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small wonder, then, that this chapter on change and an alternative mode of observance ends with the affirmation: \u201cThere shall be one law for you, whether stranger or citizen of the country\u201d (14).<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":52313,"id":52313,"title":"dt32-change","filename":"dt32-change.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/are-we-doomed\/dt32-change\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt32-change","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":52312,"date":"2019-03-27 17:22:27","modified":"2022-07-31 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