Fire: Holy and Unholy - Rabbi Sacks on Shemini, Covenant & Conversation
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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The Most Fundamental Mistake, the Mistake of Nada Vanevihu
The holy is that point of time and space in which the presence of god is encountered by timsum self renunciation, but this time on the part of human kind. This can only take place through total renunciation of human will and initiative. Had nodov and avihu used their own initiative to fight evil and injustice, there would have been heroes. They asserted their own presence into the absolute presence of god. And that is why they died. We err if we think of god as capricious, jealous, angry. That was a myth spread by early christianity in an attempt to define itself as the religion of love. In truth, tenach is a love story through and
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