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Imagine the scene:<\/span>
\n<\/span>Two mountains opposite each other with six tribes standing on each, spread along the mountaintop and all along the slopes. – Mt. Gerizim: green and flowering – Mt. Ebal: brown and bare.<\/span><\/p>\n

The six tribes on Mt. Gerizim receive blessings and the six tribes on Mt. Ebal receive curses. How was this done? The Levites stand in the valley between the mountains and and turn to each side to proclaim the blessings and the curses.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Chapter 27, the Levites turn to Mt. Ebal and pronounced twelve curses to be showered on the Children of Israel if they violated certain transgressions. As one, everyone answered AMEN.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why pick this particular list of twelve? Is there something special about them? Is there a lesson to be learned from this group in the list of curses?<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashbam (grandson of Rashi) points out beautifully that there is a thread that binds these transgressions: It is that they are performed in SECRET.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashbam<\/span>: <\/b>\u201cTwelve sins for twelve tribes…being of the type that one commits in private\u2026 when one is unobserved and no witnesses are present.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some examples:<\/span><\/p>\n

15 \u201cCursed is the man who makes a statue or a molten God…and places it in secret.\u201d <\/span>
\n<\/span>18 \u201cCursed is the one who misleads a blind man on the road\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>24 \u201cCursed is the one who strikes his fellow in secret\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>25 \u201cCursed is the one who accepts bribery\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Torah is giving us the message that – yes – it\u2019s wrong to transgress but it\u2019s much worse to do it in secret. Secrecy carries with it: shame and fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think that there is more we can learn from this. In our own lives, secrets and secrecy can be a tremendous burden. Hiding our secrets can be exhausting. Secrets are hard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Privacy is different. Privacy means that we choose where and with whom we unburden ourselves. Privacy allows us to share, and precisely that sharing can bring relief and peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawing on this message, let us look within and see what secrets are weighing us down, sapping our strength and joy. Let this be an invitation to open ourselves up: to God, to a family member, to a friend. Let us allow ourselves to release a secret that is burdening us and bring ourselves to a place of inner peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

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