{"id":40880,"date":"2018-09-25T17:46:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=40880"},"modified":"2022-04-21T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:58:29","slug":"freedom-can-be-miraculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/freedom-can-be-miraculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Can Be Miraculous"},"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":[601,403],"acf":{"old_id":"40880","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38439,"related_cahpter":"56","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The emancipation will happen against the will of society and its leaders","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u201cI appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as El Shaddai, and I was not known to them by my name\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">And yet, earlier in the Torah, the <em>Shem Hameforash<\/em> (the Tetragammaton) was used by the Patriarchs themselves. Why, then, does God here tell Moses that the Patriarchs did not know Him by that name?<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The answer is that the escape of the Israelites from slavery tells us something about learning from history. When oppression becomes institutionalized, it can become nearly impossible to break through stereotypes, bureaucratic apathy, and governmental obstinacy. For both Pharaoh and his people, it requires a miracle to shake them out of their habits and make them do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">This is the solution to the paradox of God\u2019s name: at every major turning point, God tells Moses that Pharaoh will not listen to him, and will inevitably bring about the next escalation, until finally the results can no longer be reasoned away. By highlighting the institutionalization of the slavery, the eventual emancipation is shown for the miracle that it is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u201cBy this you\u2019ll know I am Hashem\u201d\u2014by the fact that something will happen that could not normally come about in the natural course of things. A whole people will be freed from the iron grip of institutionalized slavery, not because the slave-holders have seen the error of their ways and not because the institution is no longer profitable. The emancipation will happen against the will of society and its leaders, long before social norms develop against slavery, and long before human rights organizations and lobbies exist that might fight the institution on its own ground. <em>And yet, it will happen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">While the Patriarchs may have known God by the same name, it is through His direct intervention in Egypt\u2014an event that seems to go completely against the natural course of history\u2014that Israel as a people will learn to see God in the improbable and seemingly impossible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">This lesson isn\u2019t confined to the generation of the Exodus; the same miracle is evident in the survival of Israel as a people through exile, persecution, and assimilation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">This lesson in \u201cknowing God,\u201d taught by the seeming impossibility of the Egyptian emancipation is applicable to our own day, as we come out of another, much harsher and much longer exile. 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