{"id":34068,"date":"2018-07-16T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=34068"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:18:45","slug":"seeking-and-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/seeking-and-hiding\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking and Hiding"},"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":[376,370],"acf":{"old_id":"34068","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33692,"related_cahpter":"3","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"You yourself are Adam, you are the one whom God asks: \u2018Where are you?'","content":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Adam and Eve eat of the forbidden fruit, God asks them \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ayeka<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Where are you?\u201d(3:9) Doesn\u2019t God know where Adam is? Why does He ask this question?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Cain kills his brother, God approaches him and asks: \u201cWhere is your brother Abel?\u201d(4:9)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why does God ask these leading questions? What does he expect Adam or Cain to answer?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How does Adam respond? Adam shifts the blame away from himself. He blames his wife: \u201cThe woman <\/span><strong>whom You gave<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be with me<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gave<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> me of the tree and I did eat.\u201d (3:12)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cain too denies responsibility for the murder: \u201cI do not know! Am I my brother\u2019s keeper?\u201d (4:0)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These responses share a common feature. They deny wrongdoing. Adam goes further. He blames somebody else. Why do people shift blame from themselves?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin Buber suggests that all of us should feel that God is addressing the \u201cWhere are you\u201d question to us, but instead, we hide, just like Adam, and shift blame, just like Adam and his son Cain:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou yourself are Adam, you are the man whom God asks: \u2018Where art thou?\u2019\u201d \u2026 God does not expect to learn something he does not know; what he wants is to produce an effect in man which can only be produced by just such a question, provided that it reaches man\u2019s heart \u2014 that man allows it to reach his heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adam hides himself to avoid rendering accounts, to escape responsibility for his way of living. 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