{"id":34804,"date":"2018-07-22T16:03:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=34804"},"modified":"2022-02-13T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T10:13:07","slug":"noahs-ark-vs-abrahams-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/noahs-ark-vs-abrahams-tent\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah\u2019s Ark vs. Abraham\u2019s Tent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[374,391],"acf":{"old_id":"34804","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33994,"related_cahpter":"6","type_929":"2","show_author_image":true,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"There is too much at stake to close ourselves off in an ark","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Genesis chapter 6, God offers Noah an escape clause to a world beset by wickedness. The ark allows Noah to shut himself off from the world and survive the flood. Noah takes \u201cthe monastic option,\u201d and doesn\u2019t allow his path to get sullied by the evil around him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve always struggled with why the Torah gives to Noah the label, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ish tzaddik<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201ca righteous man\u201d. The relativization of the label by our sages\u2014\u201crighteous\u201d relative to the generation in which he lived\u2014does not appease me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get me wrong. The monastic option has considerable appeal today. The U.S., Israel and a host of other countries are now riding a wave of ultra-nationalism which demonizes the most vulnerable and marginal populations, firing up their respective populist base of support. There are days, most days of late, when I would very much like to take the monastic option. I find myself ashamed of the countries that I love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet I know that to close my eyes, to close my door, to opt out would be tantamount to rejecting all that I have been taught to value and cherish. Judaism, as I understand it, demands that we humanize oppressed populations, not demonize and victimize them. And when societies begin to go awry, my obligation is to do my best to re-engage in the public square, not to flee from it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My model therefore is Abraham, not Noah. It is Abraham who opens his tent on all sides to welcome the wayfarer. It is Abraham who pleads with God to spare the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is fitting, therefore, that Abraham is considered the first Jew. It is his path we must follow. 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