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Episode Synopsis
Sinai's Dayenu and Precursive Yearnings - The Warmest place on Earth is, surprisingly, the terror of Sinai once שמיעה is possible through משפטים, for it is there that we discover that this is what we have been waiting for all our lives as the conclusion to an entire meta-time of חדשים בעיניך, of יערב לכם מכאן ולהבא, of suddenly understanding one’s own past through the ספר הברית.
Rashi describes a thoroughly anachronistic מעמד הר סיני which is part of the midrash החכמה מאין תמצא in terms of spatial confusion as well. This compounds the problem raised by משך חכמה interpretation of בחודש השלישי as signifying a completely new book, for it seems to signal a discontinuity, in which the elements of דרך ארץ ought to be transcended.
Recognizing that אִלוּ קֵרְבָנוּ לִפְנֵי הַר סִינַי, וְלא נַתַן לָנוּ אֶת הַתּורָה. דַּיֵינוּ is a true description of something that has changed fundamentally.
(MY) Here is a radical new understanding of how רש"י understands not just אין מוקדם או מאוחר בתורה that is involved in this פרשה, but rather a completely anachronistic structure of קבלת התורה itself, which ties into the מדרש that קבלת התורה was non-spatial. Because of this רש"י has a completely new understanding of ספר הברית which forces us to reconsider what the true meaning of משפטים are: how they differ from דרך ארץ, and how the entire structure beginning with יתרו and his stress on דרץ ארץ comes to end here with משפטים and then with a concern for the development of ארץ ישראל entirely in what seems to be terms of דרך ארץ -- that is to say a protected area in which we need to grow gradually into ourselves.
This שיעור suggests that in רש"י’s vision, the warmest place on earth is in fact the place that we until now in פרשת יתרו we thought the most problematic place on earth a place that people could seemingly not survive in for more than minutes כפה עליהם הר כגיגית . All the future of קיימו וקבלו –the ultimate developments of תורה that allows us not only to literally sink our teeth intoכשלחן ערוך , but that allows us to appreciate our precursors that we did not even think were there, allows us to see all of our previous behavior and history as connected profoundly to what ultimately becomes ourselves – all of this is משפטים and changes completely the patience that we have for the situations we כלל ישראל are in and also the recognition that when we get to the real thing it is clearly discussing that which we always dreamt of having: not the discussion but as the רמב"ם puts it להכיר: to recognize that which we were always looking for!
Rashi describes a thoroughly anachronistic מעמד הר סיני which is part of the midrash החכמה מאין תמצא in terms of spatial confusion as well. This compounds the problem raised by משך חכמה interpretation of בחודש השלישי as signifying a completely new book, for it seems to signal a discontinuity, in which the elements of דרך ארץ ought to be transcended.
Recognizing that אִלוּ קֵרְבָנוּ לִפְנֵי הַר סִינַי, וְלא נַתַן לָנוּ אֶת הַתּורָה. דַּיֵינוּ is a true description of something that has changed fundamentally.
(MY) Here is a radical new understanding of how רש"י understands not just אין מוקדם או מאוחר בתורה that is involved in this פרשה, but rather a completely anachronistic structure of קבלת התורה itself, which ties into the מדרש that קבלת התורה was non-spatial. Because of this רש"י has a completely new understanding of ספר הברית which forces us to reconsider what the true meaning of משפטים are: how they differ from דרך ארץ, and how the entire structure beginning with יתרו and his stress on דרץ ארץ comes to end here with משפטים and then with a concern for the development of ארץ ישראל entirely in what seems to be terms of דרך ארץ -- that is to say a protected area in which we need to grow gradually into ourselves.
This שיעור suggests that in רש"י’s vision, the warmest place on earth is in fact the place that we until now in פרשת יתרו we thought the most problematic place on earth a place that people could seemingly not survive in for more than minutes כפה עליהם הר כגיגית . All the future of קיימו וקבלו –the ultimate developments of תורה that allows us not only to literally sink our teeth intoכשלחן ערוך , but that allows us to appreciate our precursors that we did not even think were there, allows us to see all of our previous behavior and history as connected profoundly to what ultimately becomes ourselves – all of this is משפטים and changes completely the patience that we have for the situations we כלל ישראל are in and also the recognition that when we get to the real thing it is clearly discussing that which we always dreamt of having: not the discussion but as the רמב"ם puts it להכיר: to recognize that which we were always looking for!
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