{"id":84669,"date":"2020-12-07T13:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T11:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=84669"},"modified":"2020-12-07T13:54:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T11:54:55","slug":"a-lesson-for-modern-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-lesson-for-modern-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson For Modern Discourse"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"84669","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"629","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"From out of One, many\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concept of God uttering multiple messages simultaneously is found in reference to the Ten Commandments. In Exodus 20:1 the phrase \u201cGod spoke all these words\u201d is understood to allude to the Ten Commandments being delivered in a single utterance. Exodus then goes on to repeat the Ten Commandments individually for the benefit of the listeners at Mount Sinai and all of us who have come since to learn them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud (Sanhedrin 34a) develops this idea with the example of two distinct versions of the fourth commandment: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">zachor<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 remember the Sabbath, in the version of the commandments provided in Exodus 20:8; and <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shamor<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 observe, in the version presented in Deuteronomy 5:12. Whether these two versions were given simultaneously and later dissected or given in two distinct ways, the Talmud teaches that a single passage can have multiple valid meanings. In other words, multiple interpretations of the same words are not necessarily conflicting: they could all have validity. Certainly, that\u2019s demonstrated within our volumes of often divergent biblical commentary, all of the authors of whom are venerated in their own right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this chapter of Psalms, we again come across this idea. \u201cOne thing God has spoken, two things have I heard\u201d says David in 62:12. Curiously David does not\u00a0 go on to tell us the one thing God spoke, but only the two things he took away: that God exudes kindness, and that God is just (\u201crepays a man according to his deed.\u201d) Rashi reconstitutes these two ideas into a single one, explaining that the kindness of God is in fact that He repays us only partially for our deeds. For this he cites Ezra 9:14, \u201cYou, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz comments on this chapter of Psalms that the apparent double meaning of God\u2019s commandments illustrates that there are two aspects to every commandment, as summarized in Psalms 34:15. \u201cTurn from evil and do good.\u201d The more apparent aspect of a commandment is to follow God\u2019s will. The flip side to fully demonstrating our commitment is to refrain from doing what is in opposition to God\u2019s will. 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