{"id":36432,"date":"2018-07-31T00:28:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=36432"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T11:23:50","slug":"lift-up-your-eyes-from-the-place-where-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/lift-up-your-eyes-from-the-place-where-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift Up Your Eyes From The Place Where You Are"},"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":[418,430],"acf":{"old_id":"36432","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34283,"related_cahpter":"13","type_929":"2","show_author_image":true,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"When a person has a sense of place in the world, he has no need to take the place of his companion","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s all a matter of place. And what is the place? Did Abram and Lot\u2019s shepherds fight over a physical place? Ostensibly, yes: &#8220;the land could not support them (literally, raise them up, 13:6),&#8221; that is, there was not enough room for all of them. \u00a0However, the Torah, with verbal virtuosity, continues the motif of \u201craising up.\u201d When Abram suggests to Lot to choose which way to go, the text says \u201cLot looked about him (literally, raised up his eyes) and saw the whole plain of the Jordan\u201d (Genesis 13:10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The motif of raising one\u2019s eyes is common in the Book of Genesis. \u00a0The phrase is used with Abraham, Rebecca, Jacob, Esau, and Joseph. However, the first person to raise his eyes is Lot. Raising your eyes is like homing in on a target; it is an aspiration to unite with the place that you are looking at. Lot raises his eyes to the Plains of Jordan, to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and his choice turns out to be a terrible mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is the correct way to raise one\u2019s eyes? The Master of the Universe says to Abram in the continuation of the chapter: \u201cRaise your eyes and look out from where you are&#8230;.&#8221; (13:14). The Tor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ah is precise &#8211; do not lift up your eyes <\/span><em>to<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the place you want to reach, but lift up your eyes <\/span><em>from<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the place where you are! You cannot go on a life journey toward a long-awaited goal if you do not know where you are. Without a sense of self and even fullness, confidence in what you have already, you will not succeed in identifying the next place towards which you are raising your eyes. You are not able to choose. However, this is not enough. 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