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CHAVOUOT, LE DON DE LA TORAH - LA MORALE UNIVERSELLE (GRAND-RABBIN JOSEPH-'HAÏM SITRUK)

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No, of course, Bailly [Music] No leader, just ask a simple question as a preamble. Everyone knows the text, of course, and the Ten Commandments. A paradox immediately alerted our greatest minds. Rami is the one I'm quoting here. It wasn't me, Rabbi, or quoting here. It wasn't me, Rabbi, or Halevy, the famous medieval philosopher, one of the great masters among the greats, who asked a question. Rabbi Brahmi Benezra, also one of the great commentators of the High Middle Ages, and he says: how is it that the Ten Commandments, beginning with the words "I am the eternal, your God," which led out of the land of Egypt, if the Ten Commandments are God's calling card, how can He present Himself? Ask Ben- Yehuda Levi. With such a Yehuda Levi. With such a specific event as the Exodus from Egypt, he should have said, " According to me," and everyone understands the question: "I am the eternal, your God, who created the world. I am the eternal, your God, who created. I am therefore part of both the antiquity of my reference and the universality. From my reference, the one who is the creating being, the creator, who is from birth to all humanity and to the entire cosmos, I, the eternal God of the and to the entire cosmos, I, the eternal God of the cosmos, God of the nations, God of humanity—no, I am the eternal, your God, who brought Himself out of Egypt. What is even more astonishing is that, despite everything, the Ten Commandments have truly become, in a way, the universal morality. There are practically no public buildings in France, a country renowned for its secularism. If you go to the Court of Cassation or to the courts, you will see that most of the architecture incorporates the

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