Divorce is a Mitzvah? Yes, but not a "Mitzvoh" annd not a "Simcha" either.

: Film trailer--  Marriage Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHi-a1n8t7M

 

 

 

 

 The Big Ideas:

·       Divorce is not a simcha, but it is a mitzvah. A mitzvah is not a good deed, it is a commandment. 

·        It is normal, normative, and important. It is not a sin.

·       Judaism is a religion for kids and adults. Many adults think Judaism is a religion for kids because they stopped studying it as kids.  But Much of Judaism only applies to adult life, such as divorce.

·       Judaism is concerned with all areas of human life, not just holidays and prayer.

·       American popular culture is rooted in a European Christian perspective of divorce, that divorce is a sin.  Judaism sees it as mitzvah: a way to make the world just and holy.

 

ACTIVE LISTENING:  LECHA DODI

1.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4k0qQhfvIY  

2.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIIFvjBkz8s    

3.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbBD3zcPTdc  

(or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViEUsANIK1k   )

4.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUknq4BRksk  

5.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sFgzLID1Hc     

6.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKLyZtIAroY     

7.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcfX4gV1CUQ   

8.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkFN8cc87I0   

9.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROtZeabPmHY  

10.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhK33wp10FI   

Tiebreaker:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1tesGgjp5o