Introduction to the Tractate Berakhot - Rabbi 'Adin Steinsaltz
- Michel Benhayim
- il y a 22 heures
- 1 min de lecture
The Tractate Berakhot is the first Tractate in the order of emuna1 [faith]. Its primary focus is the myriad ways in which a Jewish person expresses their emuna throughout their life.
It comprehensively addresses the plethora of details regarding the different blessings recited on various occasions throughout one’s life, prayer services and their customs, the shema and its associated blessings and halakhot, and numerous other laws connected with a person’s day-to-day existence. Meanwhile, the gemara provides a detailed account of the lives of Jews in Eretz Yisrael and Babylonia during the era of the mishnah and the talmud.
It describes their occupations, prayers, aspirations and dreams from morning to evening, on weekdays and festivals, in prosperous and calamitous times, citing numerous halakhic and aggadic sources to enlighten, guide and explain.
Despite the abundance of detail and variety of nuances in the tractate, one central, unifying theme recurs throughout the many halakhot and aspects touched upon within it, transforming it into a cohesive unit. The principle that the abstract should be made concrete and the sublime realised in a practical, detailed manner...
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