Drash Cards for VaYeira (5766)<\/b><\/p>\n
By Marc Mangel<\/p>\n
\u2022 I stopped preparing for today at v 3: \u00a0“I appeared to them…I did not become known to them”. What does this mean?<\/p>\n
\u2022 Melo HAOmer says that God appeared to the Avot \u00a0through an unclear lens but to Moshe through a clear lens.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Can the lens continue to get better? Is revelation a continuing process or did it freeze at Sinai (or at the Sanhedrin, or at the Talmud, or at the Shulchan Aruch?)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Maimonides: “The gates of interpretation are never sealed”<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Tamara Ross (Orthodox at Bar-Ilan): “a dynamic unfolding of the original Torah transmitted at Sinai reveals in time its ultimate significance”. God’s voice is not an actual voice but heard through interpretation of the text.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The first Rav Kook: There is a supernal Torah with successive unfolding of that Torah as progressive revelations of a pre-existent ideal. For example, the Torah laws on slavery are also meant to move humanity away from slavery.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Babylonian Talmud is longer than the Jerusalem Talmud because the spirit of prophecy did not have full reign in that Diaspora.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Here’s what I think: there is one irreplaceable message from God and we must continue to reveal and understand it. \u00a0In Pirke Avot 5:231, Ben Bag Bag says that we should level into the Torah and continue to delve into it for everything is in it — that is why we must look deeply<\/p>\n
\u2022 W read the Torah every week and every year. And our hope should be that every time we read the Torah we see a new truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drash Cards for VaYeira (5766) By Marc Mangel \u2022 I stopped preparing for today at v 3: \u00a0“I appeared to them…I did not become known to them”. What does this mean? \u2022 Melo HAOmer says that God appeared to the Avot \u00a0through an unclear lens but to Moshe through a clear lens. \u2022 Can the … Continue reading