{"id":35087,"date":"2018-07-24T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T21:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=35087"},"modified":"2022-02-14T17:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:49:44","slug":"35087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/35087\/","title":{"rendered":"A World Where Serenity Can Exist With Horrors"},"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":[408,407],"acf":{"old_id":"35087","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34245,"related_cahpter":"8","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"God's bittersweet kindness...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I stood in the shadow of the gateway to Auschwitz, and the beautiful light spilled across the grass. How can the trees sway so prettily, I wondered. How can the sky be this deep shade of blue? Somehow, that perverse serenity hurt me more than the death chamber. It was an insult. It was obscene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was what God allowed it to be, I realized later. It was what God decreed when he said \u201cI will no longer curse the earth because of man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I used to think of God\u2019s promise as an act of kindness. But His kindness in this case is bittersweet. By separating the fate of the natural order from humanity\u2019s actions, God exiled us into a world that\u2019s blind and deaf to us, where evil doesn\u2019t carry natural consequences, and where justice can remain beyond our reach. After all, the light never shrank away from Auschwitz, the earth didn\u2019t open up to swallow our murderers, and the trees only swayed, oh-so-gracefully, in the wind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The world where such serenity can coexist with horrors, is the one that was created in Genesis 8. Like in Genesis 1, God reshaped the world by separating between the sky and the earth and between the water and the dry land. And just as before, these distinctions set the stage for life to (re)appear. But while the original natural divisions were vulnerable to our choices, and were literally washed away when people stopped distinguishing right from wrong and good from bad, the post-flood world does not reflect our moral state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can, however, offer us an incentive to action. True, nature won\u2019t reflect the moral order. But we can look for inspiration in the divisions between sky and earth and water. 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