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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani often returns to the scene at Sinai. What he takes from it first is the Eternal's opening words, "Take off your sandals, you are on holy ground," which he reads as the first division between the sacred and the profane1. He also stresses that the name of God cannot be spoken and so marks transcendence2. He describes Moses as the man who speaks directly to God but cannot pass His word on to a people busy around the golden calf, while Aaron is the one who speaks with men34. He places him among the founding heroes abandoned at birth: cast onto the Nile and taken in by Pharaoh's daughter5. He repeatedly quotes the phrase "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert" and contrasts the law of retaliation with turning the other cheek. He notes that Moses at first refuses to be a prophet and dies before entering the promised land: remaining a nomad, he stands for restlessness rather than a territory6. Finally, he reports that the young men of Tübingen called Kant the Moses of their nation.

1. 1Ibn Battûta19 Feb 2020 · 1:02:52
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3. 3La religion de l'Argent29 Sept 2019 · 10:49
4. 4JE ne suis pas celui que vous croyez - L'identité introuvable4 Jan 2024 · 5:56
5. 5#5.2 ter FaceBookLive / Questions (2) suite à l'Atelier #5.26 Dec 2018 · 1:09:42
6. 6JE ne suis pas celui que vous croyez - L'identité introuvable4 Jan 2024 · 1:15:10

Summary produced automatically from 33 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.