Aloh Naaleh
Aloh Naaleh is an organization dedicated to building Aliya motivation among North American Jewry. Torah Thoughts contributed by Aloh Naaleh members appear in the Orthodox Union's Torah Insights publication.The end of this week's parsha lists the ten generations that span the period from Noach to Avraham. The Torah records that Terach had three sons: Avram, Nachor and Haran. Haran dies in Ur-Kasdeem, and then Terach moves with his family, including Avram, Avram's wife Sarai, and Lot the son of the deceased Haran (maybe also Nachor and his wife Milca).
- Nor do I admit that expedience is a lawful rule of conduct, in cases where moral principle is concerned. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 Jane West He had excused his cowardice by calling it ' expedience,' but, to do him justice, he did not do justice to himself. The Man Who Was Good Leonard Merrick.
- I am not aware of having done a single thing in my life as a matter of expedience. I have ever held that the highest morality is also the highest expedience. (H, 8-12-1933, p8).
As a matter of expedience, we will not be taking on any new staff this year. As a matter of 3 Replies: dient zu rein methodischen Zwecken/Nutzen - is solely for methodological expedience: Last post 15 May 10, 11:36: the divorce of process 1, and process 2 is solely for methodological expedience Ist der Satz 1 Replies. Expediency definition, the quality of being expedient; advantageousness; advisability.
They leave Ur-Kasdeem to go to the land of Canaan, but they reach Charan (maybe so named in memory of Haran?) and they settle there. Terach dies many years later in Charan, at the age of 205.
A Matter Of Expediency
Next week, we will read that HaShem instructed Avram to depart from his father's home, to go to the Promised Land. Avram thereupon took Sarai and Lot, left Charan to travel to the Land of Canaan. He arrived there and thus commenced the history of the Jewish People in Eretz Yisrael.
What does all this add up to? Terach intended to go to Canaan, but reaches only as far as Charan. It is Avram who completes the journey. Canaan-Eretz Yisrael is a land of challenges, trials and tribulations: ten for Avraham (Pirkei Avot ch. 5) and many more for us, his descendants.
Aliyah is not primarily a matter of personal convenience; it is an act of faith in HaShem. Terach's journey was a matter of expedience and Charan was probably a convenient place to settle. But Avraham's journey was a Divine mission to a land of promise and faith, a journey that bears significance for his descendants forever.
A Matter Of Expediency
How fortunate for us that HaShem preserved the original Aliyah for Avraham!
Prof. Bodenheimer was born in Cambridge, England in 1941 and emigrated to Israel with his family in 1950. He grew up in Israel, served in the IDF, studied Torah at Kol Torah and Mercaz Harav, and physics at Hebrew University, specializing in electro-optics. He is the President of JCT (Machon Lev) and father of eight.
The foregoing commentary was distributed by the Aloh Naaleh organization.
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Etymology[edit]
From Old Frenchexpedience, from Late Latinexpedientia, from Latinexpediens.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɛk.spiː.dɪ.əns/
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Noun[edit]
expedience (countable and uncountable, pluralexpediences)
- (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to cause some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
- April 11 1690, John Sharp, sermon preached at White-Hall
- to determine concerning the expedience of actions
- April 11 1690, John Sharp, sermon preached at White-Hall
- Speed, haste or urgency.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […]Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, , [Act II, scene i]:
- 2008, Thomas Dyja, Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America (page 178)
- The sense of expedience that allowed White to cut deals and keep moving had made many, mistakenly, see him as shallow or, worse, unprincipled.
- Something that is expedient.
- (obsolete) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
- c.1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth,[…]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […]Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, , [Act I, scene i]:
Synonyms[edit]
- (fitness or suitableness):expediency
- (speed, haste or urgency):expediency
Related terms[edit]
►English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped- (0 c, 40 e)
Translations[edit]
quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end
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References[edit]
- OED2
- Webster, Noah (1828) , “expediency”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- expedience in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
- expedience at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “expedience” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.
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