{"id":2356,"date":"2016-05-17T22:14:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2356"},"modified":"2016-05-17T22:14:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T22:14:21","slug":"eikev-5760","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2356","title":{"rendered":"Eikev (5760)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Eikev (5760)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 Today I would like to discuss Ch 8, v 10, which is the basis for the Birka HaMazon.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rav Kook said that the basis for the Torah is the relationship between the community and the individual and how the individual finds contentment in the community.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Eating is a fundamental need and the Birkat Ha Mazon is a ladder so that we ascend from those needs to heaven. \u00a0Indeed we begin with Shir HaMa-alot<\/p>\n

\u2022 But here is the hard stuff, part 1. \u00a0In Ch 10, v 12, we are told that we only need to fear God (all the classic commentators translate Yirat as fear)<\/p>\n

\u2022 In our world, better translations might be revere, stand in awe of (and awe is the beginning of religion)<\/p>\n

\u2022 It was easy for Moses to find awe, but how do we do it? \u00a0Answer: \u00a0just look around you!<\/p>\n

\u2022 Even Creationists are in awe of God’s workings. \u00a0In 1996 the Pontifical Academy said that there was an “ontological discontinuity” in which going from the 24 chromosomes of the apes to our 23 chromosomes was the insertion of the soul.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hard stuff, part 2: Ch 11, v 13 which gives the second part of the Shma. \u00a0The Biblical world had it easy with good\/bad: \u00a0the community does good, it gets rewarded; the community does bad, it gets punished.<\/p>\n

\u2022 This lasted until the end of the 1st Temple and 2nd Temple period when we had the rise of individualism. \u00a0But after the Crusades, the pogroms, and the Shoah it is hard to believe in good\/bad ==> reward\/punishment.<\/p>\n

\u2022 We are God wrestling again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Eikev (5760) by Marc Mangel \u2022 Today I would like to discuss Ch 8, v 10, which is the basis for the Birka HaMazon. \u2022 Rav Kook said that the basis for the Torah is the relationship between the community and the individual and how the individual finds contentment in the community. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2356","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2356\/revisions\/2357"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}