Deuteronomy 12:1-5
דברים יב:א-ה
א אֵלֶּה הַחֻקִּים וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׁמְרוּן לַעֲשׂוֹת בָּאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר נָתַן יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵי אֲבֹתֶיךָ לְךָ לְרִשְׁתָּהּ כָּל־הַיָּמִים אֲשֶׁר־אַתֶּם חַיִּים עַל־הָאֲדָמָה: ב אַבֵּד תְּאַבְּדוּן אֶת־כָּל־הַמְּקֹמוֹת אֲשֶׁר עָבְדוּ־שָׁם הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם יֹרְשִׁים אֹתָם אֶת־אֱלֹהֵיהֶם עַל־הֶהָרִים הָרָמִים וְעַל־הַגְּבָעוֹת וְתַחַת כָּל־עֵץ רַעֲנָן: ג וְנִתַּצְתֶּם אֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָם וְשִׁבַּרְתֶּם אֶת־מַצֵּבֹתָם וַאֲשֵׁרֵיהֶם תִּשְׂרְפוּן בָּאֵשׁ וּפְסִילֵי אֱלֹהֵיהֶם תְּגַדֵּעוּן וְאִבַּדְתֶּם אֶת־שְׁמָם מִן־הַמָּקוֹם הַהוּא: ד לֹא־תַעֲשׂוּן כֵּן לַיהוָֹה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם: ה כִּי אִם־אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַר יְהוָֹה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם מִכָּל־שִׁבְטֵיכֶם לָשׂוּם אֶת־שְׁמוֹ שָׁם לְשִׁכְנוֹ תִדְרְשׁוּ וּבָאתָ שָּׁמָּה
דברים יב:א-ה
א אֵלֶּה הַחֻקִּים וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִים אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׁמְרוּן לַעֲשׂוֹת בָּאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר נָתַן יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵי אֲבֹתֶיךָ לְךָ לְרִשְׁתָּהּ כָּל־הַיָּמִים אֲשֶׁר־אַתֶּם חַיִּים עַל־הָאֲדָמָה: ב אַבֵּד תְּאַבְּדוּן אֶת־כָּל־הַמְּקֹמוֹת אֲשֶׁר עָבְדוּ־שָׁם הַגּוֹיִם אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם יֹרְשִׁים אֹתָם אֶת־אֱלֹהֵיהֶם עַל־הֶהָרִים הָרָמִים וְעַל־הַגְּבָעוֹת וְתַחַת כָּל־עֵץ רַעֲנָן: ג וְנִתַּצְתֶּם אֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָם וְשִׁבַּרְתֶּם אֶת־מַצֵּבֹתָם וַאֲשֵׁרֵיהֶם תִּשְׂרְפוּן בָּאֵשׁ וּפְסִילֵי אֱלֹהֵיהֶם תְּגַדֵּעוּן וְאִבַּדְתֶּם אֶת־שְׁמָם מִן־הַמָּקוֹם הַהוּא: ד לֹא־תַעֲשׂוּן כֵּן לַיהוָֹה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם: ה כִּי אִם־אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַר יְהוָֹה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם מִכָּל־שִׁבְטֵיכֶם לָשׂוּם אֶת־שְׁמוֹ שָׁם לְשִׁכְנוֹ תִדְרְשׁוּ וּבָאתָ שָּׁמָּה
1. These are the statutes and judgments, which you shall take care to do, in the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you to possess all the days that you live upon the earth.
2. You shall completely destroy all the places, where the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;
3. And you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and destroy their names out of that place.
4. You shall not do so to the Lord your God.
5. But to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come;
2. You shall completely destroy all the places, where the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;
3. And you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and destroy their names out of that place.
4. You shall not do so to the Lord your God.
5. But to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come;
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God seems to be very specific with what he wants you to do and how to react to idols and another religioun. It almost seems uneasy to go to such a high extent. If we were to try and knock out every thing else that would bring hate apon us. Don't we not want that to happen it would cues violence and so on. So why it it necessary to go to such a extent and just not ignore another religouns alters?
ReplyDeleteRashi: destroy, you shall destroy, "destroy" and afterward, "you shall destroy". From here we see regarding one who eradicates idolatry that he must pull up the roots after it, he must wipe out all traces. All the places where the nations from whom you shall take possession worshiped ect. And what is it that you shall destroy from [those places] "their gods" which are on the [high] mountains" an altar is of many stones. A pillar is of a single stone. It is bimos, the pedestal upon which an idol is placed, which appears in the Mishnah: "a stone which has hewn from the start of bimos" Asherah this is a tree that is worshiped. And you shall destroy their names. By coining names of ridicule for them. For example the pagan temple called "the house of the crest" they would call "house of the ditch" a corruption of the idol named "everyone's eye" they would call "thorn eye" a corruption of. You shall not do so that is to se offerings smoking for the sake of heaven in any place "rather you shall do so only at the place that Hashem will choose" alternatively the passage "you shall break apart their altars and you shall destroy their names... You shall not do so" is a negative commandment for the one who erases not to erase the name of god and for the one who knocks off not to knock off. A stone from the altar or from the courtyard of the beit hamigdash. You shall seek a resting place this is the tabernacle of Shiloh
ReplyDeleteRashi is commenting on the fact that it says to destroy the names of whoever destroyed the name of God. By destroying the name of whoever destroyed the name of God you are showing the people that they can destroy names if they have done something wrong. He said that it is a negative commandment because God doesn’t want you doing something because “they started it” he wants you to do it because it is good and is fixing your sin or doing a mitzvah.
"you shall completely destroy all the places, where the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, under every green tree"
ReplyDeleteTigay states "that the Israelites may not take over and use places where the Canaanites worshiped their gods, but must destroy them.They must sacrifice to the Lord wherever they please, as they have been permitted to do until now. Such worship may continue only until the Israelites achieve security, but then they must restrict sacrificial worship to a single place, chosen by G-d."
So by this, G-d wanted the Jewish people to destroy the Canaanites' land where they worshiped other gods that weren't Him. However, He didn't want the Jewish people to conquer and take over their land because it was possible that the Canaanites ways of worshipping their gods would effect the Jewish people's ways in worshiping their G-d. Thus, they must go where G-d decides is a reasonable place for the Jewish people to settle.
Tigay says that G-d's "special place" is where Solomon built the Temple which was originally founded by David.
I have decided to focus on the idea of the temple in this milehighparshanut document. I would rather talk about the temple because the temple was a place of unity. On all the high holidays the Jewish people would congregate at the temple. It talks about how God can contain himself in one small building (in comparison to the whole universe). But yet he said that his name would be there. Is his name just there or his presence there?
ReplyDeleteThere is another concept that God cannot even be contained in our universe. At light speed it would take over 100,000 years to get from one side to the other. If God cannot be contained in this then how is it imaginable in our wildest dreams that God was in the Temple. This just helps the case of the awesomeness of God. Another answer is that God allows the structure to host him. That would make sense, because he can do whatever he wants.
Purim G-dcast:
ReplyDeleteThis G-dcast tells the story of Purim. When Queen Vashti disobeys King Achashverosh, she is kicked out of the palace. The king has a beauty contest to find a new queen. The winner of the beauty contest is a Jewish girl named Esther. When Esther's uncle comes to visit her, he tells her that an evil man named Haman is plotting to kill the Jews. Esther figures out that she needs to talk to the King and convince him not to kill all the Jews. To do that, she invites the king to dinner and tells him that she is Jewish and if all the Jews die, she dies too. The king then changes around fate and orders Haman to be killed rather than all the Jews. Mordechai is promoted to a very honorable position and everyone lives happily ever after.
The video does a very good job of explaining the Purim story. it takes a semi modern perspective on it. Personally, I love the Purim story. I think it is very interesting and fun. The story found in Megillah Esther has a main theme of a change of fate. The pLAN was to kill all the Jews. The change of fate was when Esther gets the courage to tell to the king that's she is Jewish. The king still loves her and sentences Haman to be hung instead of the Jews. There is also a theme of acceptance present. The Purim story is full of lessons that can be learned by people young and old.
Hebrew:
ReplyDeleteרענן-fresh
הגבעות-the hills
שברתם-you've broken
לשכנו-neighbor
תדרשו-promoted
אבדתם-perish
ירשים-impress
המקומות-locate
Jake Volin's Comment (10 Q's)-
ReplyDelete1. Do you still have to follow the laws outside of the land?
2. Why do we have to destroy all of the temple?
3. Why is god so selfish?
4. It seems as if we are intolerant of other religions
5. Why couldn't we have just picked a new place to set up.?
6. what do we do with the people?
7. why does he not specify which ones he wants?
8. how overtharrrrr we to know which place god chooses?
9. why do we seek it! cant he show us that?
10. what if we dont like it?
Ben Babakanov's Comment-
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion in this text God is telling the jewish people respect him and to only believe in him and in no other God. In the text our God is telling us to destroy their altars and do as our only one God sais. In other words Hashem is telling the israelites to burn and destroy whatever they see that has to do with any other different beliefs with other gods in the world. In the text he also said do it in which the place i choose of.
in my opinion about this text is god favors the Jewish people more even though he created the whole world he favors us more in my opinion. He gives us a wholey land and we believe in him because he has proven to be a good god from the day judaism has started. wherever he tells us to go we go and honor his commandment.