Thoughts on Parashat Ki Tavo
Blessings… What are they? Every blessing, at its core, is a form of prayer, since it typically asks God to help accomplish what we ourselves cannot. Yet the blessing is more than prayer because it assigns a decisive role to the one who pronounces it. Let us consider, for example, the blessings of children made by their parents: placing hands on them in the solemn act in which the parents see themselves as God’s co-workers and as essential links between the[…]