03. Parshas HaTamid, Longer Version, Machon LiYahadus, Wednesday 25 Teves 5776/ January 6 2016. Class Three

פרשת התמיד .03 Class Three.
We continued the oral discussion about the link between before מתן תורה and after, as it relates to קרבנות. We explored the understanding of history from Torah’s point of view. The first man was the greatest, not the most primitive, and he understood the interface between oneness and division precisely. His grandson Enoch had a harder time with it and it set in motion the decline into idolatry. The place of understanding the heavens (astrology, the constellations and the angels that are the life within them) in all this. 1) man’s intelligence, 2) Man’s faith and religion, 3) the seven laws of Noach, 4) many customs that formed from the seven laws. Some of that tradition made its way into Yiddishkeit adding a level of complexity.