{"id":34109,"date":"2018-07-16T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=34109"},"modified":"2022-02-09T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:00:10","slug":"the-book-of-the-history-of-humankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-book-of-the-history-of-humankind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of the History of Humankind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The image of God. \u00a0This is the title with which humankind is crowned. \u00a0It is the most sublime title imaginable. What is the nature of this attribute captured by being \u201ccreated in the image of God?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dominance<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Nature stands at the service of man. It is in man\u2019s power to utilize nature for the purpose of repairing the world or destroying it. The Sages in Midrash Kohelet Rabbah would say (Kohelet Rabbah 7:28): \u201cWhen the Holy One Blessed One created the first man, God said to him, “Look how good My deeds are!” Make sure you do not destroy my world!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Creativity<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

One of humanity\u2019s unique abilities is the ability to create. A human being can be called \u201cthe image of God\u201d because the first thing that is told about God is that God created. The concept of creativity is broad–from physical concepts to legislative creativity, artistic creativity and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What is the uniqueness of the human mind? Freedom. The mind works freely. And therefore its consciousness is unique and novel in the world of reality. In this lies a human being\u2019s superiority over animals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choice<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A person has autonomy, or freedom of choice, and this is what it means to be in the image of God, for this is the only area in which a person is completely not dependent on anything or anyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindness<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Kindness and generosity with no expectation of reward is the most intrinsic quality in humans, for just as God gives to the world without anything in exchange, so too has God implanted this attribute as His image in each person.<\/span><\/p>\n

These five attributes bring joy to human beings. All of them can be degraded, or nurtured until the person is crowned with the sublime title of having been made a \u201clittle less than divine\u201d (Psalms 8:6).<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"The Book of the History of Humankind","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"The Image of God: Dominance, Creativity, Knowledge, Choice, Kindness","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":36143,"id":36143,"title":"preview-6398","filename":"preview-6398-1.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/preview-6398-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-book-of-the-history-of-humankind\/preview-6398\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"preview-6398","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":34109,"date":"2018-07-29 05:30:52","modified":"2018-07-29 05:30:57","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":499,"height":495,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/preview-6398-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/preview-6398-1-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/preview-6398-1.jpg","medium_large-width":499,"medium_large-height":495,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/preview-6398-1.jpg","large-width":499,"large-height":495,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/preview-6398-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":499,"1536x1536-height":495,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/preview-6398-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":499,"2048x2048-height":495,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/preview-6398-1.jpg","post_full_size-width":499,"post_full_size-height":495,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/preview-6398-1-423x420.jpg","home_baner-width":423,"home_baner-height":420}},"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":"art4all\/Shutterstock.com"},"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\/34109"}],"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=34109"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101839,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34109\/revisions\/101839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}