{"id":52190,"date":"2019-03-26T17:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=52190"},"modified":"2022-10-18T20:45:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:45:34","slug":"the-jewish-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-jewish-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish Constitution"},"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":[426,395,354,410],"acf":{"old_id":"52190","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"184","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Common contractual obligations of the local communities and the global people","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Torah was not merely expounded. It was read, or more precisely, proclaimed. The book of Deuteronomy refers to a seven-yearly convocation of the entire people, men, women and children, to hear the Torah publicly recited by the king. This was a moment of national education, \u201cso that they can listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and follow carefully all the words of this law\u201d (Deuteronomy 31:12). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it was also a political-religious event. It renewed the covenant with Israel as a people under the constitution of Torah. The regular reading of the Torah in the synagogue, with its echoes of this national ceremony, was thus a reminder and ratification of the terms on which Jews came together to form communities. As Daniel Elazar notes, individual congregations reproduced in miniature the classic terms of Jewish nationhood. \u201cIn effect, every local Jewish community, as a congregation, was considered to be a kind of partnership based upon a common contractual obligation within the framework of the overall Jewish constitution, namely the Torah.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By regularly proclaiming the Torah, Jews reaffirmed it as the code of their common life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from: A Letter in the Scroll, p.152<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image by: Gordon Johnson from 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