{"id":35077,"date":"2018-07-23T23:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=35077"},"modified":"2022-02-14T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:06:37","slug":"come-out-of-the-ark-noah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/come-out-of-the-ark-noah\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Out of the Ark, Noah!"},"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":[354],"acf":{"old_id":"35077","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"8","type_929":"2","show_author_image":true,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"When it comes to rebuilding a shattered world, you do not wait for permission","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dove returns with the branch in its beak and Noah realizes the time to exit and the Ark, and restart humanity, is eminent. An extraordinary midrash comments on God\u2019s words to Noah \u201c\u2018Come out of the ark\u2019\u201d (Gen. 8:16). The Midrash says: \u201cNoah said to himself, since I only entered the ark with permission (from God), shall I leave without permission? The Holy One blessed be He said, to him: Are you looking for permission? In that case I give you permission, as it says, \u2018Then God said to Noah, Come out of the ark.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Midrash then adds: \u201cSaid Rabbi Judah bar Ilai, If I had been there I would have smashed down [the doors of] the ark and taken myself out of it.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A significant part of what faith is in Judaism is to have the courage to pioneer, to do something new, to venture out into the unknown. That is what Abraham and Sarah had done when they left their land, their home and their father\u2019s house. It is what the Israelites did in the days of Moses when they journeyed forth into the wilderness, guided only by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Dr Nachum Rabinovitch, one of the great rabbinic scholars of our time, drew a possible \u2013 indeed the only one possible \u2013 was that when it comes to rebuilding a shattered world, you do not wait for permission. God gives us permission. He expects us to go on ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpted from: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/rabbisacks.org\/the-courage-to-live-with-uncertainty\/#_ftn1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/rabbisacks.org\/noach-5777<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Come Out of the Ark, Noah!","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"When it comes to rebuilding a shattered world, you do not wait for permission","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"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":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35077"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102020,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35077\/revisions\/102020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}