{"id":41079,"date":"2018-09-27T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T06:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41079"},"modified":"2022-05-02T17:27:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:27:37","slug":"to-become-a-nation-of-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/to-become-a-nation-of-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"To Become A Nation of Educators"},"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":[399,405,354],"acf":{"old_id":"41079","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"63","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"To defend a land you need an army, but to defend freedom you need education. And memory","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Israelites were about to go free. Nine of the ten plagues had already taken place. The tenth, they knew, would be the last. According to the biblical account, Moses gathered the people and instructed them on the preparations they were to make. By any standard it was an epic moment. For 210 years the Israelites had been in exile. They had experienced suffering, slavery, and attempted genocide. Now they were about to begin the journey known to history as the Exodus. What would Moses say? He might have spoken about freedom, or the promised destination, the \u201cland flowing with milk and honey.\u201d He might have chosen to speak about the arduous journey that lay ahead, what Nelson Mandela called \u201cthe long road to freedom.\u201d Any of these would have been the great speech of a great leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses did none of these things. Instead he spoke about children, and the distant future, and the duty to pass on memory to generations yet unborn. Three times he turned to the theme:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if your children should ask you, \u201cWhat is this rite you perform?\u201d you shall say\u2026. (Ex. 12:26-27)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And you shall tell your child on that day, \u201cIt is because of what the Lord did for me when I went out of Egypt.\u201d (ibid. 13:8)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if in that time your child should ask you, \u201cWhat is this?\u201d you shall say to him\u2026. (ibid. 13:14)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About to gain their freedom, the Israelites were told that they were to become a <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nation of educators<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That is what made Moses not just a great leader but a unique one. Freedom \u2013 he was suggesting \u2013 is won not on the battlefield nor in the political arena but in the human imagination and will. As the American justice, Judge Learned Hand, put it: \u201cLiberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.\u201d <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To defend a land you need an army, but to defend freedom you need education<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>.<\/em> You need parents, families, and homes and a constant conversation between the generations. Above all you need memory \u2013 the kind of memory that never forgets the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Tale of Two Civilizations, <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jonathan Sacks Haggada<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":74605,"id":74605,"title":"ez27-bible","filename":"ez27-bible.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez27-bible.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/bybliography\/ez27-bible\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez27-bible","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":74601,"date":"2020-05-12 12:03:11","modified":"2022-05-02 14:26:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez27-bible-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez27-bible-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez27-bible-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez27-bible-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez27-bible.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez27-bible.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez27-bible-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez27-bible-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"To Become A Nation of Educators","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"To defend a land you need an army, but to defend freedom you need education. 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