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Parshat Eikev August 20, 2022 23 Av, 5782
TORAH Rabbi Sacks on Eikev
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HERTZ 780 What is the real all your physical needs are to comfort, later delight
HAFTORAH challenge of maintaining met – when you have land in pleasures, soon grow
ARTSCROLL 1197 a free society? In parshat and sovereignty and rich dissolute in luxury, and
HERTZ 794 Eikev, Moses springs his harvests and safe homes ­ finally go mad
great surprise. Here are – that your spiritual trial squandering their
Shabbat Mevarchim his words: will commence. estates.”
Rosh Chodesh Elul

Molad: Shabbat August 27 Be careful that you do The real challenge is not Bertrand Russell put it
@ 8:16:5 AM not forget the Lord your poverty but affluence, not powerfully in the
Rosh Chodesh: God… Otherwise, when insecurity but security, not introduction to his
Sat./Sun., August 27, 28 you eat and are satisfied, slavery but freedom. History of Western
when you build fine Moses, for the first time in Philosophy. Russell
Bar Mitzvah houses and settle down, history, was hinting at a thought that the two
Jake Zuckerman and when your herds and law of history. Many great peaks of
flocks grow large and centuries later it was civilisation were
Aufruf your silver and gold articulated by the great reached in ancient
Solomon Birnbaum increase and all you have 14th century Islamic Greece and
is multiplied, then your thinker, Ibn Khaldun (1332 Renaissance Italy. But
heart will become proud -1406), by the Italian he was honest enough
Times and you will forget the political philosopher to see that the very
Lord your God, who Giambattista Vico (1668- features that made
Shabbat 8/20 brought you out of 1744), and most recently them great contained
Egypt, out of the land of by the Harvard historian the seeds of their own
Mincha 7:00pm slavery… You may say to Niall Ferguson. Moses was demise:
Candle Lighting 7:29pm yourself, “My power and giving an account of the
the strength of my hands decline and fall of What had happened
Hashkama 8:00am have produced this civilisations. in the great age of
Parsha Shiur 8:30am wealth for me.”… If you Greece happened again
ever forget the Lord your Ibn Khaldun argued in Renaissance Italy:
Main 9:00am God… I testify against similarly, that when a traditional moral
you today that you will civilisation becomes great, restraints disappeared,
Beit Midrash 9:15am surely be destroyed. its elites get used to because they were
Gemara Shiur 6:20pm Deut. 8:11-19 luxury and comfort, and seen to be associated
the people as a whole lose with superstition; the
Mincha 7:20pm What Moses was saying what he called their liberation from fetters
to the new generation asabiyah, their social made individuals
Shabbat Ends 8:35pm was this: You thought solidarity. The people then energetic and creative,
that the forty years of become prey to a producing a rare
Week of 8/21
wandering in the conquering enemy, less fluorescence of genius;
Sunday 7:30/8:30am wilderness were the real civilised than they are but but the anarchy and
challenge, and that once more cohesive and driven. treachery which
Mon. Thurs. 6:35/7:45am you conquer and settle Vico described a similar inevitably resulted from
Tues. Wed. Fri . 6:45/7:45am the land, your problems cycle: the decay of morals
Mincha 7:20pm will be over. The truth is made Italians
that it is then that the “People first sense what collectively impotent,
Latest Times for real challenge will begin. is necessary, then consider and they fell, like the
Shema/Shemoneh Esrei It will be precisely when what is useful, next attend Greeks, under the
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