{"id":34066,"date":"2018-07-16T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=34066"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:15:59","slug":"i-gave-you-one-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/i-gave-you-one-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"I Gave You One Rule!"},"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":[376,383],"acf":{"old_id":"34066","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33859,"related_cahpter":"3","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A recasting of the world in the snake's image","content":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self-limitation is the most profound expression of God&#8217;s grace (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hesed<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), as we saw in chapter 2. \u00a0It is thus also the greatest gift that He gives humankind, by asking us to follow just one, simple rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By limiting Himself, and leaving space for us, God transformed the relationship between Creator and creation from one of mastery, to one of partnership. By commanding humankind not to eat from the fruit of a single tree, he invited us to engage in this self-limitation as well. This rule would serve to remind us that our ultimate goal, even as we &#8220;rule over and conquer&#8221; the world, is to engage in a partnership, to &#8220;serve and guard&#8221; it, and not to subjugate it to our every desire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the snake doesn&#8217;t see it this way. While all of the creatures in Eden are naked, the snake is the &#8220;most naked&#8221; (the most straightforward reading of verse 1, following the word&#8217;s usage in the previous verse). For him, nakedness represents an ideology which opposes any outside imposition on the state of nature, any infringement on absolute autonomy. And so when he asks whether God really said &#8220;not to eat <\/span><b>any<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the trees of the Garden&#8221;, he isn&#8217;t making an innocent mistake. Rather, he is intimating that if God is going to tell you not to eat one thing, he may as well have forbidden everything. The snake sees God&#8217;s rule as hierarchy and domination, as a power play. If you submit, you have lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God&#8217;s punishment is no more than a recasting of the world in the snake&#8217;s image, as a place defined by power dynamics. Humans will now need to struggle against nature- against wildlife, childbirth, the earth, and against themselves- man against woman. When life is seen in this way, humankind is tragically doomed to failure. We are ultimately always defeated by our own mortality. 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