{"id":40901,"date":"2018-09-25T18:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=40901"},"modified":"2022-04-24T18:32:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T15:32:40","slug":"the-responsibility-of-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-responsibility-of-life-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Responsibility of Life and Death"},"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":[383,384,401],"acf":{"old_id":"40901","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37561,"related_cahpter":"57","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"How can one person be a god to another person?","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter opens with a most unusual verse: \u201cThen God said to Moses, \u2018Behold, I have placed you as [a] God (Elohim) to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother as your prophet.\u2019\u201d Even for God, this is a bold claim. How can a person be \u201cas a god\u201d to another person, or even more surprising,\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a god to another person? Can we learn from this verse what it means to be God?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elsewhere in the Torah, what most distinguishes God from humanity is God\u2019s control over life and death. The God of the Torah has some human attributes, but cannot be born and can never die. God\u2019s power in the Torah comes from God\u2019s ability to control fertility, birth, and death for the people of the Torah. Yet in this brief interaction, God is sharing God\u2019s most distinguishing characteristic with Moses, and granting Moses the power to control Pharaoh\u2019s, and the Egyptians\u2019, life through his speech. Moses is burdened with an awesome and tremendous responsibility\u2014should he fail to convince Pharaoh to release the Israelites (and he will surely fail, for God will continually harden Pharaoh\u2019s heart), Moses will personally be responsible for the death of thousands of Egyptians. Hardly a balm to Moses\u2019s nerves, God\u2019s statement that Moses will be \u201cas God to Pharaoh\u201d teaches us what a tremendous breach of the human-Divine partnership it is to take another human life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordinarily, only God is allowed to decide when a person will be born and when they will die\u2014a common sentiment to anyone familiar with the High Holiday liturgy. Perhaps by granting Moses a limited access to this power, God is reminding us of this most Godly attribute. Even God\u2019s prophets can only communicate God\u2019s will. 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