{"id":34070,"date":"2018-07-16T14:33:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=34070"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:02:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:02:46","slug":"when-god-and-men-decide-humanitys-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/when-god-and-men-decide-humanitys-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"When God and Men Decide Humanity\u2019s Fate"},"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":[364,365],"acf":{"old_id":"34070","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"3","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"What might have happened if God had included Eve in the conversation?","content":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the divine attributes of the Torah is that, emerging within the confines of an Iron Age patriarchy, it nonetheless offers explosive, subversive insights that undulate just under the surface. Dominant patriarchy above, life-giving egalitarianism pulsating within, waiting for our attentive read to reveal the divine within the hardened crust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it is in Genesis 3. God speaks to Adam and tells him not to eat of the fruit of the tree, lest they die. But God doesn\u2019t speak directly to Eve, so somehow the message gets muddled. The cunning snake takes advantage of her exclusion to tell her that it isn\u2019t true that if they touch the tree they die; the rabbis spin a midrash that the snake shoved her against the tree. When she didn\u2019t die, she assumed (reasonably) that the entire prohibition was Adam\u2019s distortion. The rest, if not history, is world shaping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Biblical wisdom lures us to wonder: what might have happened if God had included Eve in the conversation? What if ancient patriarchies had been bold enough to see women as sources of resilience, strength, wisdom sufficient to include in leadership? How might this entire story have played out differently! As we have received it, alas, it is a testament to the life changing damage that occurs when women are marginalized and excluded. When God and men decide humanity\u2019s fate, then cunning serpents are given openings to work their mischief, and all people \u2013 women and men \u2013 suffer as a result. 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