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Parshat Yitro February 15, 2020 20 Shevat, 5780
Rabbi Sacks on Parshat Yitro
TORAH
ARTSCROLL 394 In the course of any life supporters of the American anger. Was there a way of
HERTZ 288 there are moments of awe Enterprise Institute, one of the knitting together the
and amazement when,
world’s great economic think
unravelling strands of
with a full heart, you tanks. The two gatherings could American society? The
HAFTORAH thank God shehecheyanu not have been less alike. One reason these two events are
ARTSCROLL 1154 vekiyemanu vehigiyanu was religious, Christian, and connected in my mind is that
HERTZ 302 lazeman hazeh, “who has concerned with theology. The on both occasions I spoke
kept us alive and other was secular, American, about the same concept –
sustained us and brought and concerned with economics the one that is central to this
Times us to this day.” Two that and politics. Both of them, week’s parsha, and to biblical
particularly stand out in though, were experiencing some Judaism as a whole, namely
my own memory were kind of crisis. In the case of the brit, covenant. This was, in
Candle Lighting 5:09 pm
separated by almost ten Anglican Church it had to do the seventeenth century
Mincha 5:10 pm years. The first was the with gay bishops. Could the especially, a key concept in
Lambeth Conference at Church accommodate such the emerging free societies
Hashkama 8:00 am Canterbury in 2008. The people? The question was of the West, especially in
conference is the tearing the Church apart, with Calvinist or Puritanical
Youth Minyan 8:30 am gathering, every ten many of the American bishops circles.
years, of the bishops of in favor and most of the African
Parsha Shiur 8:30 am the Anglican Communion ones against. There was a real To grossly simplify a complex
process, the Reformation
– that is, not just the sense, before the conference,
Main 9:00 am Church of England but the that the communion was in developed in different
directions in different
entire worldwide danger of being irreparably split.
countries, depending on
Beit Midrash 9:15 am structure, much of it In Washington in 2017 the issue whether Luther or Calvin was
based in America and
Gemara Shiur 4:05 pm Africa. It is the key event at the forefront of people’s the primary influence. For
that brings this global minds was quite different. A Luther the key text was the
Mincha 5:05 pm network of churches year earlier there had been a New Testament, especially
together to deliberate on sharply divisive American the letters of Paul. For Calvin
Shabbat Ends 6:19 pm directions for the future. Presidential election. New and his followers, however,
That year I became, I phrases had been coined to the Hebrew Bible was the
R’ Reisman Video 8:00 pm believe, the first rabbi to describe some of the factors primary text, especially in
Shiur address a plenary session involved – post-truth, fake relation to political and social
of the conference. The news, flyover states, alt-right, structures. That is why
Sun. Feb. 16 7:30/8:30 am second, much more identity politics, competitive covenant played a large part
Teen Minyan 9:30 am recent, took place in victimhood, whatever – as well in the (Calvinist) post-
Mon. & Thurs. 6:35/7:45 am October 2017 in as the resurfacing of an old one: Reformation politics of
populism. It all added up to
Geneva, Holland, Scotland,
Tue., Wed. & Fri. 6:45/7:45 am Washington when I what I termed the politics of England under Cromwell, and
Mincha 5:20 pm addressed the friends and
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