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Ed Greenstein teaches Bible at
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3 TON RD
The festival of Pesach,
which we now celebrate,
reinforces that feeling of
riding high. Riding high,
though, can lead to the
manufacture of a golden
calf. In this week's Shabbat
reading, which im-
mediately follows upon the
golden calf incident in the
text of Exodus, Moses says,
look, God — this is a very
stubborn people. Forgive
them, come along with us
(Exodus 34, verse 9).
God goes along, but
makes it clear that the di-
vine presence depends upon
the holiness of those who
would wish to enjoy it. For
God, only the holy can be
home.
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In the special reading
from Exodus, the next seg-
After God's magnificent
liberation of the Israelites
from Egyptian bondage, the
people could well let pride
overcome them, God deliv-
ered us, we must be pretty
good, they might think.
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that if the Israelites prac-
tice the sorts of abomina-
tions that the natives of Ca-
naan practiced, the holy
land of Israel will spew out
the Israelites just as it
spewed out the Canaanites_
The land, the Torah makes
clear, is inherently holy,
like God.
Just as God will not
tolerate a build up of ritual
violations in the Israelite
camp and will leave the
camp in the face of uncon-
trolled ritual pollution, so
will the holy ground, sensi-
tive to bloodshed, illicit
sexual liaisons, and other
abominations, "vomit up"
any inhabitants that would
defile it.
The great medieval com-
mentator, Rashi, clarifies
this image with an analogy:
"It's like a prince being fed
something his stomach
cannot stand — he throws it
up. Thus does the Land of
Israel not tolerate trans-
gressors."
The Promised Land is
granted to Israel, but there
are strings attached. The
strings are the 'constraints
imposed by the Torah, its
rules and its values.
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Exodus
33:12-34:26,
Numbers
28:19-25.
Ezekiel 37:1-14.
ment in the Shabbat series,
the text begins with Moses
addressing God, asking God
to continue to lead the Is-
raelites through Sinai and
on to Israel. Moses says: "By
what will it be known, then,
that I have found favor in
your eyes — I and your
people? Is it not by your
going along with us that I
and your people are distin-
guished from every people
that is on the face of the
earth?"
What makes Israel spe-
cial is that God finds a hos-
pitable environment-among
the Israelites. What makes
the environment provided
by Israel one worthy of God?
Adherence to the precepts of
the Torah.
This fundamental idea
finds explicit expression in
Deuteronomy 4, verse 8:
"What great nation has just
statutes and laws like all of
this teaching (Torah) that I
present before you today?"
Israel has a divine right to
its land, the Torah said last
week, so long as it does not
defile it. Israel has a special
claim on God, the Torah
says this week, so long as it
upholds the covenant with
God (see Exodus 34, verse
10).
And what will we hear
from the Torah next week?
"You shall be holy, for holy
am I, the Lord your God"
(Leviticus 19, verse 2).
God is holy, but Israel the
people is not inherently
holy. Israel has a potential
for holiness, and here God
commands the people to live
up to its potential. Be holy,
says God. Here are rules.
They will make you holy. Be
holy.
RTY RD
This Shabbat we break
out of the routine Torah
reading cycle. We interrupt
the scheduled weekly serial
with a "special," a selection
specifically chosen for the
Shabbat that comes out in
the middle of Pesach.
The special selection is
taken from Exodus 33-34,
obviously out of sequence
with the routine weekly
reading, in which we left off
with Leviticus 18 and will
pick up, next week, with
Leviticus 19. Although
Exodus 33-34 and Leviticus
18-19 lie several parch-
ments apart in the Torah
scroll, we are meant to hear
Exodus in the middle of
Leviticus. Our tradition has
us listen to Exodus again.
When we listen to the se-
quence in the Torah not as it
is written but as it is read
out in the synagogue, what
do we hear?
The last thing we heard in
the preceding parasha was
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