Student of Rav Dessler, a moralist whose works are known, but it resumed this specificity by incorporating acquired and strict rationalists of the great tradition of learning Lithuanian.
The question is this: in the Haggadah of Pesach, we read "And even if we were all sages, or subtle intellects of veterans, we would still have the mitzvah of telling the Exodus" . Why this phrase? Is there something that might have us believe that this could be? Wise would not have a duty to tell the episode the exodus from Egypt during the Seder night?
Indeed. If the mitzvah of remembering the Exodus from Egytpte (Zakhor) applies to everyone and everywhere, the Mitzvah of telling (Lesaper) applies only to the Seder night. And you might think, at the sight of the verse that imposes this mitzvah, it only applies to one who is not aware of the extraordinary event has made the transition to freedom: "And you shall tell your son (...) what God has done that day ... " .
This mitzvah seems to involve an exchange involving a transmission of facts and the discovery of a historic event. Anyone who would already know this event would be delivered naturally. Sage could not be compelled to Passover seder. That's what
wishes to challenge the Haggadah. For what is seen in "Would we all Wise ,...", is the" All ". Let there be Wise to the Seder table, it can happen. But the requirement that they be made to initiate the exchange and take with the least language wise remain, one can easily understand.
wishes to challenge the Haggadah. For what is seen in "Would we all Wise ,...", is the" All ". Let there be Wise to the Seder table, it can happen. But the requirement that they be made to initiate the exchange and take with the least language wise remain, one can easily understand.
But what the Haggadah says, is that even if there was anyone at the table ignoring, should still tell the story of the exodus from Egypt. Interpretation directly confirmed by the history of the 5 Elders participating in the Seder and discussing the Exodus all night (all of course had a perfect knowledge of the subject and had no one to pass since it is well reported in this story that their students did not arrive until dawn).
Confirmed also by the Halacha, which indicates that a single person for the Seder should still be sure to read the Haggadah and work on the event of the Exodus from Egypt.
The question then is obvious: if the mitzvah is not a transmission job, what is it? Work on oneself? Something more personal? The answer given by Rabbi Friedlander is based on a familiar formula: "As if he was himself out of Egypt" . The Mitzvah is not a story that took place disembodied (or not) there are over 3000 years, but to update this event and find a way to make it alive, that is to say feeder for its existence.
This comment reminds me immediately to a beautiful movie from Gus Van Sant: Will Hunting. This is the story of a young man working as household MIT the temple of science in the United States and who, within a work night, so incredibly simple fixes a math problem out of the reach of the best brains in the world. Sewing up his academic genius, in all material discovered, but coupled with a chronic inability to project into the future and build a strong and balanced with other dogs and especially with a woman. Yet
Will Hunting knows about it. He knows discourse on everything. But he did not. It does not bind its interiority. That sees Robin Williams plays his psychologist in the movie:
"So if I speak of art, you got me swinging a summary of each art book ever written on the subject. Michelangelo You know stuff about him. The work of his life, his political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, all that stuff ... but I bet this one breathes in the Sistine Chapel, his smell, you know. You can not know what it's like to look up at the magnificent ceiling. You know. If I tell you to tell me about women, you 'll give me a topo on the women you loved the most. You it is perhaps even come to fuck sometimes. But you will not know me describe how it feels to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy.
If I made you talk about the war, Shakespeare is probably all you would quote me: "once more unto the breach my friends!" But you have not experienced war. You never held against you, your best friend. You did not see until the last gasping breath with a look that pleads.
If I'm talking about love, you'll probably recite a sonnet. But you have not known a woman to whom you have felt vulnerable. A woman who tossed thee spread at a glance. As if God had sent an angel on earth for you ... to tear the depths of hell. And you do not know what it means to be his angel to her. And know that the love you have for her is eternal. "
is the paradox repeatedly observed: know a concept, a concept does not do an experiment. A classic example of which Heidegger status greatest philosopher of the twentieth century did not prevent him from hanging out with the Nazi party. On a more trivial know that something is good to realize we do not stop procrastinating, finding all sorts of excuses for not rational to do it.
In another development, namely that the Holocaust existed, participate in commemorations does not preclude a priori a reproduction of the phenomenon. Losing someone is one thing in our lives ultimately trivial and statistically inevitable for every man on earth. But the live experience is totally, radically different in that it involves our lives deep within ourselves.
This is almost the whole point of Judaism: Torah, Talmud do not read, they are not objects of knowledge that should one day be a comprehensive understanding. These are the main supports for an experiment called the Study. Bind itself to choose a master, study win in front of someone else who was not necessarily the same vision of a substantive issue, that is the foundational experience of Jewish life. Each of us can claim to be free: after all, we live in a democracy, far from the dictatorships of the past, some even within the Land of Israel as a Jewish national structure, in short, who dare say that we would still cause Freedom except for folklore?
Only by confronting it with others by living this experience with his guts, it is possible to detect new forms of slavery which we have an imperative duty to liberate us.
Hag Sameah all and dare to become Will Hunting (at the end of the film of course ....
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