tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post1995542464661045306..comments2023-11-03T01:13:22.719-07:00Comments on The Rabbi Is IN with Rabbi Rami: Be Happy: Hate Thy NeighborUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-54275023142388018412008-06-06T15:03:00.000-07:002008-06-06T15:03:00.000-07:00Thanks for your fun exploration of these unclear f...Thanks for your <B>fun</B> exploration of these unclear findings. I wrote you a few months back about Renee Girard on sacrifice, and once again Girard helps us a bit. <BR/><BR/>The scapegoating process, "hate they neighbor" as you say, not only makes us happier but may form the basis of all social cohesion. <BR/><BR/>Whereas Hobbes suggests the state of nature emerged from a covenant of peace enforced by a sovereign and Locke suggests a more rational contract mutually enforced, Girard suggests that peace is found through scapegoating and rituals that recreate such actual events.<BR/><BR/>The most violent tales in Torah are actually quite revealing of this process, often from the standpoint of the victims. My teacher Gil Baile has a wonderful lecture on the Pinchas story's detail of the sacrificial mechanism and how, when the rituals no longer transfix and sustain peace, require a greater number and/or higher prestige of sacrificial murders. <BR/><BR/>But does reading Girard make me happier? Only when I get point at people who haven't read.....Scott Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04047242049493648079noreply@blogger.com