{"id":51912,"date":"2019-03-24T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=51912"},"modified":"2022-10-15T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T10:24:07","slug":"ongoing-revelation-relationship-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/ongoing-revelation-relationship-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ongoing Revelation, Relationship, Involvement"},"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":[395,645,627],"acf":{"old_id":"51912","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":51273,"related_cahpter":"182","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Turns out you didn\u2019t have to be there...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a lawyer, I have always delighted in Talmudic argument. The rabbinic legal system is essentially a common law system. The rabbis use specific case studies to consider open questions of the application of law, and then that case law becomes honored judicial precedent, which is then further debated for generations to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rabbinic construction and reconstruction of law is beautiful not just for the contours and strata of its arguments, but also for the depth of discourse around the underlying values at stake: Who are we as a Jewish People? What are our priorities? How do we walk a just and good path, especially when the world is constantly changing and the way forward is often unclear? How do we develop our own intuition about how we <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ourselves<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are changing, and how do we apply that knowledge to guide the generations to come?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Jews, our engagement in this rabbinic conversation can be a meaningful and constitutive piece of our own assent to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with God, who explicitly enters into covenant not just with those who physically stood at Sinai, but also \u201cwith those who are not with us here today.\u201d As God announces in Deuteronomy 29:14: \u201cI make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone, but both with those who are standing here with us this day before the Lord our God, and with those who are not with us here this day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The medieval French commentator, Rashi, explains that this assertion by God must be a reference to future generations, since it was already made clear a few verses earlier that all the Israelites alive at the time were part of the covenant: \u201cYou stand this day, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all of you<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, before the Lord your God.\u201d (Deuteronomy 29:9)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although we were not physically present at Sinai, our study of Torah and rabbinic teachings is one way in which we can participate in ongoing revelation and relationship with God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Cover illustration:\u00a0Mass-revelation at Mount Sinai, Providence Lithograph Company, 1907, Wikipedia &#8220;Biblical Mount 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