The Circumcision of Desire (Rabbi Sacks on Tazria, Covenant & Conversation)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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God Loves the Jewish People
God tells the prophet to marry a prostitute and see what it feels like to have a love betrayed. Hosher represents the history of israel as a love story between the faithful god and his often faithless people. He will, in future, take them on a kind of second honeymoon, and there they will renew their marriage vows. In that day, declares God, you will be called ishi, my husband. You will no longer call me baali, my master. Jewish men say when they put on the filin shall yed the hand, t fillin, winding its strap round the finger like a wedding.
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