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When Moses and Aaron, provoked by the Israelites demanding water, strike the rock instead of speaking to it, God says to them: \u2018You did not have enough faith in me to sanctify me in the presence of the Israelites\u2019 (Num. 20: 12). Later he says to Moses, \u2018you broke faith with me . . . and you did not sanctify me among the Israelites\u2019 (Deut. 32: 51). The precise nature of their offence is obscure, and the interpretations are legion. According to Maimonides, Moses was assumed to be acting on divine instruction and thus wrongly conveyed to the Israelites by his own anger that God was angry with the people. One way or another, Moses failed to act as a fitting role model.<\/span><\/p>\n

Particular emphasis appears, in some of the literature, on the impression Jewish conduct makes on non-Jews. Thus the Talmud \u00a0says that Joseph, resisting attempted seduction by Potiphar\u2019s wife, \u2018sanctified the name\u2019. The story is told of Rabbi Shimon ben Shetach (first century BCE) who bought an ass from an Arab. When his servants brought it home they discovered a valuable jewel in its harness. R. Shimon immediately ordered them to return it on the grounds that he had intended to buy the ass, not the jewel. He told his disciples: \u2018Do you consider me a barbarian? I would prefer that a gentile say, \u201cBlessed be the God of the Jews\u201d than all the money in the world.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

In Jewish law, behaviour that might otherwise be permitted, but could give rise to adverse perceptions on the part of gentiles, is forbidden on the grounds of \u2018desecration of the name.\u2019 So for example, whereas in Jewish law workers may eat part of the produce on which they are working, they are forbidden to do so when working for a gentile in case he or she considers such conduct as theft. \u00a0A synagogue menorah that is the gift of a gentile may not be exchanged for something else, even to fulfil a commandment, whereas if it were the gift of a Jew it may. The gentile may see the act as ingratitude or impropriety; therefore it is forbidden.<\/span><\/p>\n

The common factor in these cases is not the act in itself but the way it may be perceived. This is the reason for the exceptional severity with which \u2018desecrating the name\u2019 is regarded:<\/p>\n

There are transgressions that are forgiven immediately, and others pardoned only after a time . . . All this applies only if at the time of the transgression one did not desecrate God\u2019s name. If he did, then even though he repents, and the Day of Atonement comes and he is still penitent, and he suffers afflictions, his atonement is not complete until he dies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Profaning God\u2019s name\u2019 is a wrong that cannot be righted in one\u2019s lifetime, because what has been harmed is not just the victim, nor the perpetrator, but the very standing of God in the eyes of the world.<\/p>\n

To Heal a Fractured World<\/i><\/b>, p.63-64<\/b>
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