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  1. A Terrible Father, But a Good Jew<\/a>\u00a0by Shira Hecht-Koller. \"Did Abraham do good in preparing to slaughter his son? Did he do right? Some ancient Jewish texts are not sure...\" Modern ones too: from El'azar be-Rabbi Qillir to Nicole Krauss, Hecht-Koller asks, and answers these troubling questions.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Did They Walk Together?<\/a>\u00a0by Deena Cowans. \"With this one extra word (yachdav<\/em>, \"together\") the Torah teaches us to pay attention to the burdens others carry... Abraham may have willingly obeyed God\u2019s command, but he went to fulfill it just like his son, slowly making his way up the mountain, painfully aware of the weight on his shoulders.\"<\/li>\r\n\t
  3. \u00a0The Akeidah is Not Our Story<\/a> by Jeremy Benstein. \"We do not define ourselves primarily as Bnei Abraham. We are Bnei Yisrael, the children, the spiritual descendants, of Jacob who became Israel: 'for you have striven with beings divine and human, and have prevailed...' Our central characteristic is not submission or surrender, but struggle, wrestling with God and with people to fulfill our destiny.\"<\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Haftarah (Jeremiah 31): See here<\/a> for engaging pieces about the haftarah for the second day of Rosh Hashanah by, among others: Analia Bortz, Shalom Holtz, Sarah Rudolph, Thalia Rodis and Benny Lau.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

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    \u201cEvery seventh year you shall make a shmita\u201d (verse 1). The shmita year appeared twice before- the first in Exodus 23:11 and the second in Leviticus 25:4-7. Interestingly, while the fallow land part of shmita may be the most famous, the term \u201cshmita\u201d only appears in chapter 15 in the context of loan forgiveness. Ibn Ezra explains that the word shmita is connected to the form used here, <\/span>shimtuha<\/span><\/i>, meaning release or drop down as in one should release or drop loan arrangements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rashi asks whether the six years in this chapter means six years from the start date of any loan. Verse 9 answers that question, warning that someone should not withhold loans from those in need simply because the shmita year is approaching. Confusingly, the next topic in the chapter- freeing an Israelite slave, uses the same six years work, seventh year free framework. However, that law is case-specific. An Israelite slave works for six years and goes free in the seventh year of their servitude, not based on the shmita cycle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What is the connection between leaving the land fallow and loan forgiveness? In Exodus, the shmita year is discussed in the context of Shabbat and of charity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt. Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but in the seventh you shall let it rest and lie fallow. Let the needy among your people eat of it, and what they leave let the wild beasts eat. You shall do the same with your vineyards and your olive groves. Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor, in order that your ox and your ass may rest, and that your home-born slave and the stranger may be refreshed\u201d (Ex. 23:9-12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Leviticus discusses shmita as a stand alone law only in the context of entering the land. Here, shmita is discussed in the context of charitable loans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It makes sense that shmita is connected to entering the land, but there is a deeper message connecting these three references. Until this point, the people have not had the opportunity to own land. When someone owns property, they have an easier chance of isolating themselves from others, especially the poor who do not own land. Property ownership is also a sign of wealth. The shmita year forces the wealthiest individuals to realize that they too rely on someone else for sustenance, i.e., God. This in turn reminds them of their charitable obligations to those less fortunate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    \u201cWhen your brother, an Israelite, shall be sold to you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The mitzvah is startling. Addressed to a nation, all children of freed slaves, it assumes a reality in which one of them can shift identities, moving from oppressed to oppressor, from one enslaved to one who enslaves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Our visceral response is that this is not meant for me, that this is meant for someone darker, someone callous, someone who has not lived through what I have, was not raised the way I was. And sometimes this is true.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But there is value in believing the possibility of \u201cwhen your brother shall be sold to you.\u201d We cannot eradicate evil by assuming that it is the purview of the depraved. Acting against oppression means understanding why otherwise decent, good human beings might act in evil ways. Acting against oppression means understanding not just the suffering of the afflicted but the motivations of the afflicter. It means understanding that we ourselves have the capacity to oppress, that in other circumstances we might be capable of acting like those perpetrating evil. If oppression is systematic then we do ourselves no favors by assuming that we are immune to its temptations. By pretending that oppression is something only the monstrous engage in we turn it into something supernatural that we have no power to solve--and worse, we blind ourselves to the ways in which we might fall prey to it ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Google \"imagine yourself as a slave,\" and you will be faced with thousands of results. Google \"imagine yourself as a slave owner\" and you will find less than ten. Part of the mandate of Deuteronomy is to remember that you were a slave, to remember that experience, and to use that memory to help others in turn. But that mandate is matched by the mandate of \u201cwhen your brother shall be sold you\u201d\u2014remember that you too are capable of evil. Do not imagine that the suffering of your past inoculates you against perpetrating evil in your future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    In Deut.15:7 the Torah says \u2018lo t\u2019ametz et levavecha<\/em>\/don\u2019t harden your heart\u2019 against a potential creditor when he approaches you for a loan as the sabbatical year approaches. Rather \u2018ki patoach tiftach<\/em>\/you shall surely open your hand\u2019(Deut.15:8). \u00a0Furthermore, one of the sins listed in the Al Chet<\/em> prayer on Yom Kippur is imutz halev<\/em>, exactly what we\u2019re told not to do in Deut.15:7.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But in Psalm 27:14, we read \u2018chazak v\u2019yaametz libecha<\/em>\/be strong and resolute\u2019, \u00a0literally \u2018harden your heart.\u2019 The same verb amatz<\/em> which appears as a negative in Deut.15:7, is a positive in Psalm 27:14. What\u2019s going on? If imutz halev<\/em> is something we have to repent for, how could we be encouraged to do it 40 days in a row precisely in the season of our repentance?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It helps if we translate \u2018amatz\u2019<\/em> not as \u2018harden\u2019 but as \u2018condense\u2019 or \u2018concentrate\u2019. Think of matza -\u00a0<\/em>\"condensed bread\" - likely linguistically related. Amatz<\/em> by itself has neither a positive nor a negative connotation. It all depends on context. We can best understand it by contrasting it with the verb \u2018patach\u2019<\/em> which appears as its opposite in Deut.15:7.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    There is a moment to be open to all life has to offer. But, eventually, we have to narrow our consciousness, and focus our energies on one cause or one person. This moment of focus is also a moment of commitment. And, commitment is what we\u2019re after in the month of Elul.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The rhythm of peticha<\/em> and immutz<\/em> is central to our daily prayer. We begin the morning prayer service with openness. We say \u2018ma rabu maasecha adonai<\/em>\/how awesome are your creations, O God.\u2019 These words from Psalm 104 are shorthand for a wide angle appreciation for the magnificent variety of God\u2019s creatures.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But, the service moves in the direction of focus. Just before the Shema, we gather the four corners of our tallit, in a visualization of focused energy. The Shema is a moment of commitment to One God. And, commitment is always a narrowing of options.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What follows is the intensification of energy \u00a0that follows from that focus. We can feel the resoluteness in the encouragement to love God \u2018with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    To love we need to be open. And, to love, we need to focus on the one. Peticha<\/em> and Immutz\u00a0<\/em>\/ opening and closing are the yin and yang of life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n


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    Studies of American philanthropy often point to two traits strongly related to an individual\u2019s participation in giving \u2013 education and wealth. According to some, this alone would be the justification for the stronger than average giving by American Jews. Nevertheless, Chapter 15 of Deuteronomy offers a different basis, a basis that may well be not only the underpinning of the Jewish commitment, but also the universal recognition that poverty exists and the human condition makes it impossible to turn our back on those in need.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    As my teacher Rabbi Elliot Dorff understands, the 15<\/span>th<\/span> century Spanish commentator, Abarbanel, identifies three reason for giving tzedakah: to express mercy towards the poor, to recognize the poor person as one of your fellow human beings (and perhaps even your relative), and to be a part of sustaining the community.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    At the same time, there is an inherent contradiction raised as well. In verse 4, the Torah says <\/span>\u201cThere shall be no needy among you,\u201d and, in verse eleven, \u201cFor the poor will never cease from the land.\u201d \u00a0How is it possible to both understand the Divine promise to cease poverty and in the same passage to admit that it will never go away?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Great debates take place between commentators over the generations in attempts to reconcile these two disparate comments. Ramban says <\/span>\u201cFor the poor will never cease \u00a0[means] it is impossible that the poor will permanently disappear. [Moses] mentions this because, having assured them that there would be no needy if they observed all of the commandments, he goes on to say, \u201cI know that not every generation, forever, will observe all of the commandments to the point that there is no longer any need for commandments concerning the poor. For perhaps, at certain times, there will be needy, and therefore, I am commanding you for the case in which they are present.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In other words, we anticipate a perfected world when poverty would be eliminated, but we plan for the imperfect one in which there are indeed needy amongst us. The same passage reminds us that the worst possible case of all would be to make ourselves callous to the reality of need. So, surely we open our hands to the needy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    Before the Israelites left Egypt they were commanded to ask of their neighbors\u00a0<\/span>silver and gold and other precious objects. The morality of this has long been a source of perplexity. The key to understanding it lies in the later law to which it gave rise. When you let a slave go free, commands the Torah, \u201cyou must not send him away empty-handed. You must give to him of your flock, your granary and your wine-vat; you shall give him of all that the Lord your God has blessed you with. And you shall remember that you were once a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; this is \u00a0why, today, I command you thus\u201d (Deut. 15:13-15). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Slavery is an insult to the human condition, and it leaves a legacy of bitterness that itself prevents an ex-slave from being fully free of the past. Freedom involves more than just releasing a slave. It means furnishing him or her with the means to begin an independent life. It also involves tangible recognition of the work he or she did while a slave. Without this \u00a0a slave continues to resent his former owner. With it, they can face one another in mutual dignity and respect. Payment is restitution in the deepest sense of the word, not only financial but also psychological.
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    Excerpted from The Jonathan Sacks Haggada<\/span><\/em>, p.79<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    image: Israel in Egypt\u00a0<\/em>(Edward Poynter, 1867) - Wikicommons<\/p>\r\n

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    Our chapter includes the following provision: \u201c<\/span>If there be among you a needy man, one of your own brethren, within one of your gates, in the land that the LORD your God will give you, do not harden your heart, nor tighten your fist from your needy brother\u201d (verse 7). The use of \u201cIf\u201d implies that the presence of needy Jews is only a possibility; however, in the continuation of the chapter the Torah stipulates: \u201cFor the poor shall never cease from the land\u201d (verse 11), seeming to stipulate that poverty is inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Curiously, the matter of perpetual poverty assumes a disproportionate significance in a Talmudic discussion about the Messianic era.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Samuel said: There is no difference between this world and the Messianic era other than [Israel\u2019s release from] the oppression of [gentile] kingdoms, to wit: \u201cFor the poor shall not cease from the land.\u201d (BT Berakhot 34b)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In other words, while political fortunes will change in the future, socio-economic conditions will remain the same.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This view was elaborated on by Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (1550-1619), who propounded the rather idiosyncratic theory that poverty exists in order to give the rich an opportunity to atone for their wealth by sharing it with the less fortunate. (See his commentary, <\/span>K\u2019li Yakar<\/span><\/i>, to Exodus 22:24 ff.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    In chapter 8 I discussed one of the weaknesses that people have, namely, that we easily forget all the good that was given to us or all the help we received on the way to achieve a goal. I think that the underlying notion of chapter 15 is the same. But while the focus of chapter 8 was on warning the people not to forget God and all the good that he has delivered upon us, the focus of chapter 15 is more practical. Chapter 15 contains a series of laws that can be seen as the guide to not forgetting your tailwinds. Or to put it positively - <\/span>Hakarat Hatov<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

    This term is commonly translated as gratitude. This translation misses some of the qualities of this term. <\/span>Hakara<\/span><\/em> means recognition. <\/span>Hakarat Hatov<\/span><\/em> is a term that asks us to recognize all the good in our lives. It is not just about being grateful, it is about stopping for a moment and standing in awe while looking around us at everything that we have. It is a deeper state of understanding of the good. One that should also serve as a reminder - you did not build this by yourself. This is the kind of recognition that chapter 15 aims at.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    We will use the first law as an example. The first law in the chapter is the law of <\/span>Shemita<\/span><\/i> - The remission of debts (verses 1-11). Every seven years, all debt should be remitted. No bad credit score and no bankruptcies. This law, of course, has huge ramifications on the economy but its effect on the individual can be overwhelming. Someone who is well off, and has spent the last seven years building a financially stable life, and has loaned money to the needy will have to drop all the debt that is owed to them. It seems like leveling the playing field is the goal of this law.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But why? This is a reminder to everyone who accumulates wealth that nothing on this world is really theirs, and nothing in this world is really forever. As fast as the good comes it can disappear. This kind of understanding will lead people to appreciate more what they have. It will lead people to have more gratitude for what they have. It will help people have <\/span>Hakarat Hatov<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    We again see in chapter 15 the Deuteronomist lawmaker\u2019s understanding of what is human. These rules, that are basically a set of incentives, are not aimed at growth, increasing GDP, or keeping the momentum on a bullish stock market. 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    \u201cDo not harden your heart, nor shut your hand towards your brother, the pauper\u201d (Deuteronomy 15:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u201c<\/span>The bride and groom cried in yearning, \u2018If only the beggars were to come!<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span> \u2014 \u00a0from \u201cThe Seven Beggars\u201d by Rabbi Nachman of Braslav<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The beggar who we thought was blind can see<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Beyond the eye\u2019s fa\u00e7ade, to where the key<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Of faith lies hidden, concealed beneath the tree<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Where eagles perch; we pray belief still reigns<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>As eagles sit us on their wings, when we<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Request their help in setting beggars free. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The beggar who is deaf hears voices free<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Of want, for in his garden grows a tree<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>With manna-fruit and manna-scents, which we<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Have not yet touched nor smelled but which we see<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>In dreams; the butterfly of faith then reigns<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>As the garden\u2019s gate is opened by her key. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The third beggar\u2019s words, all garbled, are the key<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>To understanding how the endless sea<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Of faith is now a spring, and how the rains<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Of grace will water roots of the leafy tree<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>That shades the heart of the world; his speech is free<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Of words that could dethrone the royal we. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The beggar with the crooked neck, and we<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Who hunger for the bread of faith, must free<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Two songbirds imprisoned beyond the sea,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Beyond our grasp. \u00a0If only the beggar\u2019s key<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Were found, the birds would nest in the garden\u2019s tree<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>And humbly sing of gentle, blessed rains. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The hunchbacked beggar surely holds the reins<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>And drives our wagon to the shore that we<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Have longed to reach, for on this beach, the key<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>That beggars forged is found; their key will free<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Locked hawks of faith from cages we can\u2019t see,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>And let the hawks defend the beggars\u2019 tree. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The beggar with no hands takes wood from his tree<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>To carve the flute of faith before it rains;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Next to the surf, he plays his flute to free<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>The princess trapped below the waves, whom we<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Had found but could not save; only his key<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Of music heals her wounds, beneath the sea.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Beggar with no legs, who reigns unnoticed, free<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Us now; we wait for you to turn our key;<\/span>
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    1. Brother.<\/em> Eight times in this chapter the needy person is deemed \u201cyour brother.\u201d That\u2019s the care he should be given. The laws sets standards for this care, with do\u2019s and dont\u2019s.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. Only your brother?<\/em> The shmita debt remission law makes a distinction between the kinsman and the foreigner. \u201cYou may dun the foreigner; but you must remit whatever is due you from your kinsmen\u201d (verse 3). Likewise the slave to whom these laws apply is \u201ca fellow Hebrew, man or woman\u201d (verse 12).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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