{"id":40574,"date":"2018-09-20T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=40574"},"modified":"2022-04-14T17:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:45:17","slug":"we-are-an-exodus-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/we-are-an-exodus-people\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are An Exodus People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[601,462,391],"acf":{"old_id":"40574","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":40575,"related_cahpter":"51","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"It is the God of Exodus who teaches humankind to respond to injustice with hope, courage and determination","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The Torah begins in &#8220;gan eden&#8221; \u2014 the Garden of Eden, a place of pure perfection in which there is no suffering, no longing, no loss. But from the height of physical and spiritual fulfillment, the Book of Genesis goes on to narrate one story after another of descent and exile. It is a book of expulsion, punishment, and global destruction, of conflict within families and conflict between nations. Genesis concludes with the Israelite people\u2019s descent into Egypt, setting the stage for generations of slavery and suffering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">But our story doesn\u2019t end with the Book of Genesis. We immediately turn to Exodus, a book that begins with the Israelites thrust into slavery, degraded, humiliated and tortured. But it quickly turns to a story of miracles, of plagues and wonders, of a fiery partnership between God and humankind, rooted in holiness in time (Shabbat) and in space (mishkan, the tabernacle). In contrast to Genesis, this book tells a story of ascent, of redemption. It is a story in which\u2014 from depths of darkness\u2014 we affirm the possibility of light. A story in which the people, for generations squeezed in the narrowness of Mitzrayim, Egypt, come to embody the expansiveness of human potential. A light unto the nations\u2014 a symbol for all time of the impossible made possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">It is the God of Exodus who teaches humankind to respond to injustice with hope, courage and determination. And it is the story of the Exodus that offers the most potent and undeniable counter-testimony to the reality of our world. Just when the darkness seems to eclipse any light, just when we\u2019re spent, ready to succumb to the triumph of evil, we\u2019re called to remember the great dream that was born with the writing of this epic story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Because the Jewish people ultimately is not a Genesis people. We are an Exodus people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The dream of the Exodus\u2014with its promise that the trajectory of our lives is from darkness to light, grief to celebration, degradation to dignity\u2014 has kept the Jewish people alive. It has given us the strength to survive years of scarcity and suffering, and the direction to live with gratitude and meaning in the years of abundance and blessing. Rav Kook taught that the whole world stands on our ability to dream great dreams. 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