This week we begin a new book of the Torah, the fourth, whose name is Bamidbar (in the desert). Classical commentaries call this book the Book of Accounts (which is why it is also known as Numbers). The reason for this is that throughout the book, God commands the Jewish people to count several times.<\/p>\n
Cuando analizamos la forma en que se realizaban estas cuentas, encontramos un asunto peculiar: el pueblo jud\u00edo siempre es contado por familias. Como dice el vers\u00edculo (Bamidbar 1:2): \u00abCuenten las cabezas de toda la congregaci\u00f3n de los Hijos de Israel seg\u00fan sus familias\u00bb. Si bien los n\u00fameros registrados en la Tor\u00e1 corresponden al de cada tribu, en la pr\u00e1ctica, la cuenta se realiz\u00f3 familia por familia. En otras palabras, la unidad b\u00e1sica de cuenta y, por ende, la unidad b\u00e1sica componente del pueblo jud\u00edo es la familia.<\/p>\n
This was also the case in the Giving of the Torah, where God commanded Moses to transmit the laws of preparation for the event itself, first to the women and then to the men, thus including the entire family (see Exodus 19:3). Similarly, when God created the first Man, the Torah tells us that he received Divine blessing and was called Man only when he had his companion (see Genesis 5:2).<\/p>\n
From these places (and others) we see that the family, within the Jewish tradition, is the fundamental component of the entire community, from which it develops, grows, and endures through time. However, the idea is not family for the sake of family itself, nor family for companionship, but family for the sake of children; that is, for the purpose of creating a suitable, pure, and holy environment in which children can grow up and reveal God's presence on earth.<\/p>\n
Vivimos en tiempos en que la gente piensa en su propia individualidad, en sus propios intereses y placeres, en su \u00abganancia\u00bb a la hora de compartir (o no) tiempo con su c\u00f3nyuge. Vivimos en tiempos en que la mujer est\u00e1 m\u00e1s preocupada por su realizaci\u00f3n en su carrera como profesional que en ser exitosa con la educaci\u00f3n personal de sus hijos, vivimos en tiempos en que el hombre est\u00e1 m\u00e1s preocupado por ganar algo m\u00e1s de dinero que en compartir tiempo con su familia. Es en \u00e9sta direcci\u00f3n que la Tor\u00e1 nos ense\u00f1a, en esta parash\u00e1, a trav\u00e9s de contar \u00abfamilias\u00bb, que el n\u00facleo de toda la existencia del pueblo jud\u00edo es la familia, o sea, la forma en que se educan a los componentes de la familia, hombre, mujer y ni\u00f1os, va a determinar en mayor medida el futuro del pueblo jud\u00edo que cualquier otro tipo de aspiraciones materiales.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esta semana comenzamos un nuevo libro de la Tor\u00e1, el cuarto, cuyo nombre es Bamidbar (en el desierto). Los comentarios cl\u00e1sicos llaman a este libro el Libro de las cuentas (por eso tambi\u00e9n se lo conoce como N\u00fameros). La raz\u00f3n de esto es porque a lo largo del libro Di-s manda a contar al pueblo… Read More \u00bbThe family<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,9],"tags":[1002,950,1010,971,954,1019,994,969,942],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bamidbar-bamidbar","category-editoriales","tag-bendicion","tag-di-s","tag-educacion","tag-hombre","tag-judio","tag-moshe","tag-mujer","tag-parasha-2","tag-tora"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Familia.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/avatar1400.jpeg","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"castbox":{"key":"castbox","url":"","label":"CastBox","class":"castbox","icon":"castbox.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/en\/feed\/podcast\/rabino-tuvia-serber","embedCode":"La familia<\/a><\/blockquote>