{"id":41840,"date":"2018-10-10T22:32:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41840"},"modified":"2022-05-04T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:55:18","slug":"bitter-waters-or-bitter-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/bitter-waters-or-bitter-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Waters Or Bitter People?"},"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":[442,410,435],"acf":{"old_id":"41840","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34235,"related_cahpter":"65","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The euphoria of the miraculous splitting of the sea lasts only slightly longer than a tweet...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The euphoria of the miraculous splitting of the sea lasts only slightly longer than a tweet. After twenty-one verses of jubilant song and dance by both the men and the women, the timbrels and dancing shoes are exchanged for staffs and hiking boots. The children of Israel are on the way to the encounter God, but the journey is not easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally after three scorching laborious days in the blazing desert sun, the Israelites finally find water. However, the water is undrinkable \u201cthey could not drink the waters of Marah because they were bitter, that is why the place was called Marah\u201d (\u201cbitter\u201d in Hebrew).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These verses encapsulate the vicissitudes that the Israelites will encounter during their time in the dessert. From miracle to Marah, from revelation to rejection, from redemption to ruin with constant complaints, but then with Moses\u2019 intervention the miracles and revelation return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why was the water bitter? Scientific theories have been advanced to explain for the water\u2019s bitterness, but it appears that there is a spiritual reason. Water is the sustainer of life in the Torah, and a lack of water is a constant threat to the patriarchs and matriarchs. When the waters of the Sea of Reeds crash down on the Egyptian army the water transforms from the sustainer of life to a destructive force, and in turn becomes \u201cbitter\u201d and undrinkable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many have understood the bitterness as descriptive not of the waters, but of the people (\u201cfor they are bitter\u201d). The difficulty of the journey, the dragging the elderly and the children has embittered the Israelites, they are \u201cMarah.\u201d The rabbis teased out a lesson-water is necessary for life, and so is Torah. People can\u2019t survive three days without water, and the Jewish people can\u2019t go three days without Torah. In the rabbinic imagination it is a life without Torah, distance from God\u2019s teachings that embitters Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":54302,"id":54302,"title":"1041-maror","filename":"1041-maror.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/bitter-waters-or-bitter-people\/1041-maror\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1041-maror","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":41840,"date":"2019-04-24 10:57:05","modified":"2019-04-24 10:57:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1600,"height":900,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-1024x576.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror.jpg","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":900,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-1200x675.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-747x420.jpg","home_baner-width":747,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Bitter Waters Or Bitter People?","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"The euphoria of the miraculous splitting of the sea lasts only slightly longer than a tweet...","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":54302,"id":54302,"title":"1041-maror","filename":"1041-maror.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/bitter-waters-or-bitter-people\/1041-maror\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1041-maror","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":41840,"date":"2019-04-24 10:57:05","modified":"2019-04-24 10:57:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1600,"height":900,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-1024x576.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror.jpg","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":900,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-1200x675.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1041-maror-747x420.jpg","home_baner-width":747,"home_baner-height":420}},"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104583,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41840\/revisions\/104583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}