{"id":37153,"date":"2018-08-07T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=37153"},"modified":"2022-03-01T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:41:15","slug":"lots-cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/lots-cognitive-dissonance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lot\u2019s Cognitive Dissonance"},"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":[462,354],"acf":{"old_id":"37153","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"19","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Losing the simple capacity to know and take pride in who you are","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In chapter 19, Lot and his family have become profoundly assimilated. His daughters have married local men. He has decided to put down roots in the Jordan valley and the cities of the plain. This is henceforth where he belongs \u2013 so much so that the angels giving the warning have physically to drag him away to safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lot\u2019s sense of belonging, however, is either naivet\u00e9 or self-deception. He has invested too much of himself in the project of making his home among the people of the plain. He is a prime example of what Leon Festinger called \u201ccognitive dissonance.\u201d According to Festinger, the need to avoid dissonance is fundamental to human beings; otherwise it creates unbearable tension. It is this tension that Lot cannot resolve. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lot\u2019s hesitation is, in a real sense, the story of the modern Jew. 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