Words of Torah from Reb Raachel Re’eh, Deuteronomy 11:26 – - TopicsExpress

Words of Torah from Reb Raachel Re’eh, Deuteronomy 11:26 – 16:17 Rabbi Daniel Landes and psychologist Sheryl Robbin describe this week’s portion as a challenge to follow a life-path of ethical mindfulness. They write: The many mitzvot defining this path offer a set of consciousness-raising road signs that warn the traveler to stay alert and not lose the way. The key requisites for doing the journey right are attention to one’s deeds and their consequences and an awareness of what inadvertence can produce. The literal watchword of Re’eh is “shemor” (“be aware”) of what you do to keep energy flowing in the direction of the blessing and away from the curse. If Biblical Judaism has been characterized as “ethical monotheism,” the expanded awareness demanded by Deuteronomy can be termed “ethical mindfulness.” In contrast to Eastern mystical mindfulness, in which the danger is in taking our material world too seriously, ethical mindfulness, which is halakhic in nature, worries about not taking the world seriously enough. Its consummation is, in the words of the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, in “taking upon oneself the other’s destiny.” For example, seeing our fellows mired in poverty, we must quash our tendency toward misanthropic inattention and readily provide for their needs. Remembering our own days as slaves in Egypt, we must provide our former slaves – or today our employees upon leaving our employ – with compensation and gifts for their journey onward. Ethical mindfulness is a difficult path to travel. It demands that in all our contacts and relationships with family, friends, colleagues, and stranger, we consider their sensitivities and imagine their pain. This by itself makes a difference, but only if we cultivate a mode of “seeing” that does not waver and does not blink. (See Jerusalem Report, 8/16/1999.) May our path together be blessed with clarity of vision, leading us to mutual compassion and care. Reb Raachel

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