{"id":41059,"date":"2018-09-27T09:28:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T06:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41059"},"modified":"2022-05-01T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T06:24:50","slug":"why-silver-and-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/why-silver-and-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Silver and Gold?"},"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":[413,354,438,453],"acf":{"old_id":"41059","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"61","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"To be free you have to let go of hate","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow the Lord had said to Moses, \u201cI will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.\u201d (11:1-2)\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why the silver and gold? The Israelites were in such a hurry to leave, and the Egyptians so hasty in urging their departure, that they did not even have time for the dough to rise. Why then was God so insistent that they take the time to ask for these parting gifts? What conceivable use did they have for them in the long journey across the wilderness?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A people driven by hate are not \u2013 cannot be \u2013 free. Had the people carried with them a burden of hatred and a desire for revenge, Moses would have taken the Israelites out of Egypt, but he would not taken Egypt out of the Israelites. They would still be there, bound by chains of anger as restricting as any metal. To be free you have to let go of hate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a fundamental difference between living with the past and living in the past. Judaism is a religion of memory. We remember \u00a0the exodus annually, even daily. But we do so for the sake of the future, not the past. \u2018Do not oppress the stranger\u2019, says the Torah, \u2018because you know what it feels like to be a stranger.\u2019 In other words: what you suffered, do not inflict. Memory is a moral tutorial. In Santayana\u2019s famous words: those who do not remember the past, are destined to repeat it. Israel remembers its past precisely in order not to repeat it. Moses\u2019 message is: remember, but not in order to hate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That means drawing a line over the resentments of the past. That is why, when a slave went free, his master had to give him gifts (Deut. 15: 12-15). This was not to compensate for the fact of slavery. There is no way of giving back the years spent in servitude. But there is a way of ensuring that the parting is done with goodwill, with some symbolic compensation. The gifts allow the former slave to reach emotional closure; to feel that a new chapter is beginning; to leave without anger and a sense of humiliation. One who has received gifts finds it hard to hate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Letting Go, Covenant &amp; Conversation, Bo (5769)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":79025,"id":79025,"title":"hag2-goldsilver","filename":"hag2-goldsilver.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/hag2-goldsilver.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/silver-and-gold\/hag2-goldsilver\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"hag2-goldsilver","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":79010,"date":"2020-08-19 13:01:45","modified":"2023-02-18 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