{"id":40884,"date":"2018-09-25T17:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=40884"},"modified":"2022-04-21T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:53:23","slug":"the-people-did-not-listen-to-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-people-did-not-listen-to-moses\/","title":{"rendered":"The People Did Not Listen to Moses"},"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":[397,616],"acf":{"old_id":"40884","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"56","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But it had nothing to do with him","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u201cSo Moses told this to the Israelites but they did not listen to him, <strong>because their spirit was broken and because the labour was harsh<\/strong>.\u201d (Ex. 6:9)<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The emphasized phrase seems simple enough. The people did not listen to Moses because he had brought them messages from God before and they had done nothing to improve their situation. They were busy trying to survive day by day. They had no time for utopian promises that seemed to have no grounding in reality. Moses had failed to deliver in the past. They had no reason to think he would do so in the future. So far, so straightforward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">But there is something more subtle going on beneath the surface. When Moses first met God at the burning bush, God told him to lead, and Moses kept refusing on the grounds that the people would not listen to him. He was not a man of words. He was slow of speech and tongue. He was a man of \u201cuncircumcised lips\u201d. He lacked eloquence. He could not sway crowds. He was not an inspirational leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">It turned out, though, that Moses was both right and wrong, right that they did not listen to him but wrong about why. It had nothing to do with his failures as a leader or a public speaker. In fact it had nothing to do with Moses at all. They did not listen \u201cbecause their spirit was broken and because the labour was harsh.\u201d In other words: <strong>if you want to improve people\u2019s spiritual situation, first improve their physical situation<\/strong>. That is one of the most humanising aspects of Judaism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: right;\">From: <em>Spirits in a Material World (Covenant &amp; Conversation, Vaera 5776)<\/em><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":89847,"id":89847,"title":"ps123-slave servant","filename":"ps123-slave-servant.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps123-slave-servant.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-biblical-trope\/ps123-slave-servant\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ps123-slave-servant","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":89846,"date":"2021-03-03 15:25:29","modified":"2023-07-14 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