{"id":33881,"date":"2018-07-12T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=33881"},"modified":"2022-02-07T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T10:35:02","slug":"a-meditation-on-genesis-1-1-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-meditation-on-genesis-1-1-31\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meditation on Genesis 1: 1-31"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[362],"acf":{"old_id":"33881","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33996,"related_cahpter":"1","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p>In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. In the beginning, in only 31 verses, the world rapidly comes into being. Our foundational Creation Story unfolds with stunning, even unsettling, speed: through simple articulations (\u201cAnd God said: Let there be\u2026. And there was\u2026\u201d) and repeated acts of division and separation, the world takes shape. What was an inarticulate\/unarticulated whole becomes named and distinct entities: day, night, light, darkness, earth, seas, animal, human.<\/p>\n<p>As in birth, the infant\u2019s miraculous first breath signifying a severing from the mother\u2019s being \u2013 a separation both mother and child will carry quietly within their distinct selves forever \u2013 the Genesis creation can be seen as also a story of setting asunder, of breaking apart. I am thinking not of the later Lurianic Genesis retelling with its light-bearing vessels\u2019 fragmentation, but rather of an original move toward brokenness, born of differentiation, which the Creation story bequeaths us.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge, it seems, is how to be our distinct selves \u2013 as individuals, as tribes, as ethnic and religious groups, as nations \u2013 while still holding on to concern for and connection to whoever and whatever is not us, whoever and whatever stands across the borders. The challenge \u2013 powerfully pronounced in today\u2019s world of enmities and ruptures justified and celebrated \u2013 is how to live the brokenness, divisions and separations of our Creation Story (our created story) while ever-striving toward a wholeness of hearts and spirits, lost to the pre-storied realm.<\/p>\n<p><em>from<\/em> <strong>The Broken Beginning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u29eb<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the beginning<br \/>\nit was sudden \u2013<br \/>\nthe world<\/p>\n<p>that wasn\u2019t<br \/>\nyet<br \/>\nall at once<\/p>\n<p>emerging<br \/>\nout of formless void \u2013<br \/>\nspace<\/p>\n<p>of the infinite<br \/>\nbroken<br \/>\ninto pieces \u2013 God<\/p>\n<p>retreating<br \/>\nto make way<br \/>\nfor perfect human<\/p>\n<p>imperfection:<br \/>\nAdam and Eve<br \/>\ndreaming<\/p>\n<p>in the beginning<br \/>\nof a world that wasn\u2019t<br \/>\nand wasn\u2019t yet<\/p>\n<p>broken either<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Poetic extract is from <em>A Messenger Comes<\/em>, by Rachel Tzvia Back, Singing Horse Press 2012<\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","main_caption":"A Meditation on Genesis 1: 1-31","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"How to live the separations of our Creation Story (our created story) while ever-striving toward a wholeness of hearts and spirits","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33881"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101457,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33881\/revisions\/101457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}