On Tuesday, April 27th, Chief Rabbi Isaac Sacca participated in a virtual informative meeting aimed at students of the Menora UP program from different careers, such as Psychology, Administration and Design. Rabbi Yejezkel Micha, coordinator of Menora UP, hosted the meeting.
Menora UP was born in 2019 as a university academic training program of excellence, within the framework of Judaic values.
Rabbi Sacca highlighted the importance of this project, as it combines Dérech Éretz (good customs) with the Torah. “Dérech Éretz is something innate and the Torah exhorts us to fulfill it, since it constitutes the basis of the human being,” he pointed out.
He also highlighted five main points that make up Dérech Éretz:
1- Know how to relate to others: education, good manners, diplomacy, protocol.
2- Tarbut (culture): know the culture, the world as we perceive it and how G’d shows it in each generation.
3- Ishubó shel olam: what contribution each of us have to make to the world.
4. Commerce and work.
5- The study of nature and the creation of G’d.
“Culture, study and work do not threaten religiosity, quite the contrary. G’d endowed us with different capacities to be able to contribute the best of ourselves to the world ”, concluded Rabbi Sacca.
