{"id":33927,"date":"2018-07-15T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=33927"},"modified":"2022-02-07T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T10:52:05","slug":"god-believes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/god-believes\/","title":{"rendered":"God Believes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[375,374,354],"acf":{"old_id":"33927","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"1","type_929":"2","show_author_image":true,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The real subject of the Torah is not our faith in God...","content":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Were God not to create humanity there would be no-one in the universe capable of understanding that he or she was created and that God exists. At the same time, His creation of Man would mark the first existence of a being with the power to destroy Godly creations. Without us, it would be as if God had created billions of robots mindlessly doing what they had been programmed to do for all eternity. Even though by creating humans God was putting the entire future of creation at risk, God went ahead and made humankind. The existence of humankind can only be explained by the fact that God had faith in man. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The real subject of the Torah is not our faith in God, which is often faltering, but His unfailing faith in us. People can be brutal to one another. There are some who, having suffered pain themselves, find relief in inflicting it on others. You can lose faith in humanity, or in yourself, or both. At such times, the knowledge that God has faith in us is transformative, redemptive. We may despair; God will give us hope. God believes in us even if we don\u2019t believe in ourselves. We may sin and disappoint and come short again and again, but God never ceases to forgive us when we fail and lift us when we fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>excerpted from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rabbisacks.org\/faith-god-bereishit-5778\">http:\/\/rabbisacks.org\/faith-god-bereishit-5778<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"God Believes","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"The real subject of the Torah is not our faith in God...","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\/33927"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101646,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33927\/revisions\/101646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}