"Anger: Its Uses and Abuses" | Ki Tissa, Covenant & Conversation 5778

The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

What is Judaism? It is a way of thinking, a constellation of ideas: a way of understanding the world and our place within it. Judaism contains life-changing ideas. Each week as part of his Covenant & Conversation series for 5778, Rabbi Sacks will explore a single life-changing idea in the Hebrew Bible. You can download a written version of his commentary from www.RabbiSacks.org. Covenant and Conversation 5778 is kindly supported by the Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation in memory of Maurice and Vivienne Wohl z”l.

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0:00.0	Anger, its uses and abuses.
0:04.0	Comparing the two most famous events in the Torah,
0:08.0	we face what seems to be like a glaring contradiction.
0:13.0	In this week's Parasha, Moses on the mountain is told by God to go down to the people.
0:19.0	They have made a golden calf.
0:22.0	Moses descends, holding in his hands the holiest object of all time,
0:27.9	the two tablets carved and inscribed by God himself.
0:33.0	As he reached the foot of the mountain, he saw the people dancing around the calf.
0:38.4	In his anger, he threw down the tablets and broke them to pieces.
0:44.5	It was a public display of anger, yet Moses wasn't criticised for this act,
0:50.7	done entirely of his own accord.
0:53.8	Ray Schlockish, commenting on the verse in which God commands Moses to carve a new set of tablets
1:00.0	to replace the ones Ashe Shibartha, which you broke, says that God was in effect
1:07.3	giving his approval to Moses' deed.
1:10.7	It was as if he was saying,
1:12.9	Yishya shakkoha, Asher Shibarta.
1:16.3	Well done in breaking them.
1:18.9	The sages went further.
1:21.0	The concluding verses of the Torah say,
1:23.8	no other prophet has arisen in Israel like Moses
1:27.4	who knew the Lord face to face, or in any of the
1:33.1	mighty hand or awesome wonders Moses displayed in the sight of all Israel. On the phrase mighty hand,
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