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God commands the people to divide between two mountains, with six tribes on one and six on the other. One side answers \u201camen\u201d to the blessings and one side answers \u201camen\u201d to the curses. Moses then pronounces twelve curses. Only curses are mentioned in the text, but the understanding is that there were parallel blessings called out during the ceremony. How are these 12 related?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the curses are related to the Ten Commandments. But only some of them match, such as verse 15 against those who worship idols, verse 16 against insulting ones parents, and verse 24 against murder. Others are somewhat related, like verses 20, 22, and 23 about forbidden sexual relationships as related to adultery, and verse 25 against taking bribes as connected to bearing false witness. There are a few that are not related at all: verse 17 moving a neighbor\u2019s marker, verse 18 placing a stumbling block in front of a blind person, verse 19 subverting the rights of the widow, verse 21 bestiality, and verse 26 not following the Torah generally. Even if one removes the last one, that still leaves one more than ten.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In addition, only 7 match or somewhat match the Ten Commandments, plus there are several of the Ten Commandments that are not mentioned here at all.\u00a0 The grouping could also be organized as several curses related to interactions between people and two connected to God. This would also create a nice structure to the list. The first- prohibition against idolatry and the last- a general warning against not following the Torah would be people and God and the middle ten would be between people (this assumes the prohibition against bestiality is related to forbidden relationships instead of just an afront to God).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashbam explains that all 12 are related in that they are committed in secret. This means that those who transgress them are hidden from punishment by the courts. The two that may also be committed in public- building an idol and murder- are both clarified by the text as specifically done in secret. Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch builds on this and explains that the person who transgresses these commandments in secret is someone who outwardly acts completely differently. They may claim to care for the orphan in public, but then have no qualms stealing from welfare in secret. Later on in the book of Kings, the people will claim to follow God in public, but then secretly have idols hidden behind the window shades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the answer is simply that Moses felt that these curses encompass the greatest threats to the people as they enter the land. This is why it includes some recently enumerated commandments related to the land like removing a neighbor's boundary. This is also why the people are only instructed to have this ceremony after they cross the Jordan. 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Deuteronomy 27 relates that upon their entrance into the Promised Land, the Jewish people were enjoined to erect whitened boulders upon which the laws of the Torah were to be emblazoned:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(2) As soon as you have crossed the Jordan into the land that your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones. Coat them with plaster\u2026 (4) Upon crossing the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, about which I charge you this day, on Mount Ebal, and coat them with plaster. (8) And on those stones you shall inscribe every word of this Teaching most distinctly.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi glosses the term \u201cmost distinctly\u201d to mean \u201cin seventy languages,\u201d i.e, that these objects were to serve as a type of Rosetta Stone. R. Baruch Halevi Epstein, however, in his commentary \u201cTorah Temimah,\u201d explains that due to logistical difficulties (<\/span>i.e.,<\/span> it would have been hard to fit a single rendition of the Torah on the stones, let alone seventy versions<\/span><\/em>), this commandment means something else:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20: 2-14; Deuteronomy 5:6-18) were written upon them\u2026 \u201cSeventy languages\u201d\u2026 connotes \u201cseventy \u2018faces\u2019 of the Torah\u201d\u2026 thereby interpreting \u201cmost distinctly\u201d as \u201cevery aspect and every dimension\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi understands God\u2019s demands as opening all the many details of the Torah to everyone; Torah Temimah emphasizes communicating the general contents of the Torah. Clearly, detail will be obliterated when one follows the latter approach; but how effective will all the detail be if the basic perspective and dimensions of the document are not clarified?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A parallel to this dilemma is recorded in the Talmud as an interchange between Hillel and a potential convert:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There was another incident involving one gentile who came before Shammai and said: Convert me on condition that you teach me the entire Torah while I am standing on one foot. Shammai pushed him away with the builder\u2019s cubit in his hand.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He came before Hillel. He converted him and said to him: That which is hateful to you do not do to another; that is the entire Torah, and the rest is its interpretation. Go study. (Shabbat 31a).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Epstein does not suggest that only the ethical commandments that Moses was given atop Sinai was relevant to the nations of the world. 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We encounter two types of Torah in Deuteronomy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first is the Torah of the Ark, the Torah Moses finishes writing at the very end of his life, handing it to the Levites to be carried in the ark along with the tablets Moses brought back from Sinai. This Torah is to be cradled; to be guarded. It is to be guarded by priests who convey its contents to the people. This is a Torah to that is treasured, but also a Torah that remains alone, far from the people to whom it was given.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second, though, is the Torah of the stones. This Torah is different: it has no container. Its purpose is to be read, and to that end, it must be written clearly. Whereas the other Torah remains in the center of the Temple, surrounded by the scent of sacrifices and by songs of service, this Torah remains on the edge of the land; exposed to rain and wind and the eyes of anyone who cares to read it. This Torah is a Torah of the people, but it is also a Torah unprotected, a Torah that can not just be read, but misread, tarnished, and disrespected.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We still haven\u2019t decided what form we want our Torah to take: we still don\u2019t know whether our feelings of reverence are stronger than our feelings of pride, whether our desire to protect Torah is stronger than our need to spread it. The ark is lost and the stones have been reduced to dust, and still, we haven\u2019t decided how to shape the Torah, where to place it, or how to love it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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For the Jews who had trooped for 40 years in the desert and their children, who had only known sand, the Jordan River represented more than just a stream, a border, or a security issue to be resolved in bilateral negotiations. It was the point at which paradigms shifted, the end of one thing and the beginning of another. It was a conceptual and imaginative barrier just as much as a physical one. On the other side, nothing would be the same and everything would be different.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

All of this makes it even more remarkable that the first thing to be done on the very first day on the other side, Day Zero of the rest of Jewish history, was to erect a monument to writing; \u201c<\/span>As soon as you have crossed the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones. Coat them with plaster and inscribe upon them all the words of this Teaching. When you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We generally think of the monumental as purely visual- the Lincoln Memorial is the exception that proves the rule. This extraordinary vision of the Torah written on plaster, standing sentinel over the exact place where the miraculous yields to the mundane, signifies that the presiding spirit of this Land, with its briny seas and fickle soil and holy hills, will be textual. The Word is to be in the World, and the presence of this writing indicates that Israel is not only supposed to be a polity, but also a culture. Ahad Ha\u2019am would be proud. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Imagine the scene:<\/span>
\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\n

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

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

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Chapter 27 of Deuteronomy described a highly unusual ritual. After entering the land, the people are supposed to split the tribes in half, ascend opposite mountains surrounding the Levites and the Ark, and utter a series of curses against a long list of sins. There are many strange details here, but one of the most strange is why do they curse these specific sins and not others? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Additionally, while in the Torah, this ritual seems to consist of exclusively curses, the Mishnah, in Masechet Sota, says that each curse is preceded by the inverse blessing. \u00a0These blessings are a bit odd, because it seems to set a very low bar for blessing. Does it really make sense to bless someone simply for refraining from committing a heinous sin? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer to both of these questions can be found in a teaching from Rashi. He explains that each of the curses corresponded to a particular tribe, cursing the sin that each tribe was most inclined towards, and had committed most in the past. The curses were not a random selection of sins, but rather specific sins corresponding to each tribe within the nation. This understanding also helps illuminate our second question, of why we would bless someone simply for refraining from sinning. Because each tribe has a history of, and affinity for each sin, refraining from it really is a cause for blessing. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what is the purpose of publically reciting the \u201cpet sin\u201d of each tribe? In the Ishbitzer Rebbe\u2019s explanation of this ritual, he starts by explaining why Torah was given to people and not to angels. According to the Ishbitzer, Torah was given to people because they need it. \u00a0Unlike angels, we have failings and weaknesses that cause us to need Torah, and the role of Torah in our lives is to help us be more complete despite these failings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This explanation for why Torah was given to humans helps illuminate the purpose of each tribe making its failings visible through these curses. They are all essentially saying to each other, \u201cI too am human.\u201d \u00a0By naming their faults, they are making their need for Torah, and their humanity, visible to each other.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This shared admission was necessary before they began the process of building a society in the Land of Israel together. 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Throughout Deuteronomy, as Moses reaches the summit of his leadership, he becomes an educator, explaining to the new generation who will eventually conquer and inhabit the land, that the laws God has given them are not just Divine decrees. They make sense in human terms. They constitute the architectonics of a free and just society. They respect human dignity. They honour the integrity of nature. They give the land the chance to rest and recuperate. They protect Israel against the otherwise inexorable laws of the decline and fall of nations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only by recognizing God as their sovereign will they guard against overbearing kings and the corruptions of power. Time and again Moses tells the people that if they follow God\u2019s laws they will prosper. If they fail to do so they will suffer defeat and exile. All this can be understood in supernatural terms, but it can be understood in natural ways also.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That is why Moses, consistently throughout Devarim, uses the verb <\/span>sh-m-a<\/span><\/i>. He wants the Israelites to obey God, but not blindly or through fear alone. God is not an autocrat. The Israelites should know this through their own direct experience. They had seen how God, creator of heaven and earth, had chosen this people as His own, brought them from slavery to freedom, fed, sustained and protected them through the wilderness, and led them to victory against their enemies. God had not given the Torah to Israel for His sake but for theirs. As Weiss Halivni puts it: the Torah \u201cinvites the receiver of the law to join in grasping the beneficent effect of the law, thereby bestowing dignity upon him and giving him a sense that he is a partner in the law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That is the meaning of Moses\u2019 great words in this chapter: \u201c<\/span>Be silent, Israel, and listen<\/span><\/i>! You have now become the people of the Lord your God. Listen to the Lord your God and follow His commands and decrees that I give you today\u201d (Deut. 27: 9-10). Keeping the commands involves an act of listening, not just submission and blind obedience \u2013 listening in all its multiple senses of attending, meditating and reflecting of the nature of God through creation, revelation and redemption. It means trying to understand our limits and imperfections as human beings. It means remembering what it felt like to be a slave in Egypt. It involves humility and memory and gratitude. But it does not involve abdication of the intellect or silencing of the questioning mind.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God is not a tyrant but a teacher. He seeks not just our obedience but also our understanding. All nations have laws, and laws are there to be obeyed. But few nations other than Israel set it as their highest task to understand why the law is as it is. That is what the Torah means by the word Shema.<\/span>
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\u201c \u2026 observe all this commandment which I command you today.\u201d (Deuteronomy 27:1)<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How can I get to the island of Belief?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I sail in a raft in an uncharted sea<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And row, against the currents,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And row, against the wind.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Though rafts may crash<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>At the edge of the world,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I row with all my strength,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Endlessly searching the horizon<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>For the island of Belief.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How can I get to the star of Belief?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>No matter how high the mountain I stand on,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

how tall the tree I climb,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> how far I stretch my hand upwards,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> \u2014 Till my sinews become violin strings<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> And my fingers, the thinnest twigs \u2014<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There sparkles above me,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Beyond my grasp,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The star of Belief. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

How can I get to the throne of Belief?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Surrounding \u00a0the palace protrudes a massive wall,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Whose thick bronze gate is locked.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>If I knock, will stars hear me?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>If I push, will islands see me?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And will the throne be waiting, intact,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When I approach,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>If I approach<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The throne of Belief? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the night I whisper:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Though islands may be engulfed<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>By tidal waves,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Stars swallowed<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>By black holes,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And thrones overturned<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>By insurgents,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I believe I will get there;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I believe.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":87698,"alt":"","title":"ps98-island 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\u201cSecrets, Secrets Are No Fun\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Rabbi Andrew Markowitz: Are private sins as bad as those committed in public?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAnd let us say, Amen\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Jeremy Borovitz: What is the meaning of the word Amen?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Ebal and Gerizim<\/em>. The location of the stones, the altar and the ceremony was pinpointed on the map. But\u2026 why specifically there? Scholars and commentators have varied opinions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Sacrifice - food - joy<\/em>. A winning combo for the event (verse 7).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Process of elimination<\/em>. The \u201ccursed ones\u201d (<\/span>arurim<\/span><\/em>), that is, those who remove themselves from the moral community, become the definition for those who are inside the circle. Note the various actions and their foci: idolatry, dishonoring parents, trespassing, various harms done to others (two of which are legal injustices), and forbidden sexual relations.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Surreptitiously<\/em>. Two of the actions which are \u201ccursed\u201d are described explicitly as things done in secret (verses 16 and 25). Likewise, other bad behaviors that appear on that list are done far from public knowledge or scrutiny. Perhaps that is the reason why those very actions require a public ceremony to label their perpetrators - cursed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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