{"id":41687,"date":"2018-10-09T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41687"},"modified":"2022-05-02T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:56:16","slug":"egypt-without-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/egypt-without-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Without End"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[469,405],"acf":{"old_id":"41687","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36423,"related_cahpter":"63","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The trick of neither returning to Egypt nor turning into Egypt is of course to remember Egypt","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Towards the end of his newly translated book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catch-67<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Israeli author and public intellectual Micah Goodman frames the dilemma of contemporary Israel in vivid and evocative terms. Meditating on the curse of powerlessness and the burden of power as the Scylla and Charybdis of Israel\u2019s troubled political waters, Goodman arrives at this memorable formulation; \u201cMoses described the fear of the power of others as a fear of returning to Egypt- but he described the fear of the corrupting nature of one\u2019s own power as a fear of turning <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">into <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egypt.\u201d The perennial challenge is \u201cNeither to return to Egypt, nor to turn into Egypt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter exhibits an extraordinary self-awareness of the technologies of memory and worries over the suture between history and storytelling. Its tense is deeply hybrid and terraced, simultaneously narrating the Exodus in real-time and imagining how it will be told in the deep and unfathomable future, our past and present. Covenantal time intersects with Haggadic, Temple, and Biblical chronologies to create a matrix that reminds us, binds us, and contains us. But such alchemy is dangerous; it keeps ghosts in circulation and brings distant horizons tantalizingly close. \u201cThe land of the Philistines\u201d is the route that leads nowhere, because it is not far enough from where you\u2019ve been. The bones of Joseph don\u2019t limber up and walk themselves. They must be laboriously carried, because the past is both inevitable burden and necessary ballast. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trick of neither <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">returning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Egypt nor turning <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">into <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egypt is of course to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">remember <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egypt, in all of its cruelty and corruption, its cucumbers rinsed with suffering and its leeks fertilized with lashes. Joseph\u2019s face streaming with tears that flooded his Nile-mascara, crying because he knew what his brothers would only come to learn; it is easy to come to Egypt, and exit can be had by way of miracles, but it is nearly impossible for Egypt to leave you. 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