{"id":42528,"date":"2018-10-21T20:59:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T17:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=42528"},"modified":"2022-05-18T06:25:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T03:25:52","slug":"sinai-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sinai-is-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinai Is Everywhere"},"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":[373,541],"acf":{"old_id":"42528","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36423,"related_cahpter":"74","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"After the brightness fades, we still have books","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Central to every jot and tittle of Jewish observance, the routes to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shul <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the routines that bind seasons and people together, is the underlying belief in the wild proposition of revelation. The great French writer Gustave Flaubert, of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madame Bovary<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fame, is reputed to have said \u201cbe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.\u201d Supposedly, Philip Roth had this dictum taped on the wall above his desk. Regularity might be a small price to pay for Alexander Portnoy and Mickey Sabbath, after all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter is violently original, in that way that can fuel questions and a religious civilization in equal measure. God carefully stage manages His entry into the world, with tiered seating and even refreshments for the elders, who astonishingly sit down to eat and drink while the atmosphere is still singed with Divinity. This recalls nothing as much as the scenes from Hemingway\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Farewell to Arms<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where cheese and canned spaghetti find their way to the bombed out battlefields, and palettes are cleansed with shrapnel. Here it is not shrapnel but sapphire, and the shocking clarity of the sight irradiates millennia later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The peculiarly Jewish moment is, of course, that the precious stones swirling storm clouds are at the revelatory periphery rather than its heartland. What is to be given is something that must be read, and what is seen is a tablet that needs writing. It is not just that God is mostly in the thin small voice, although that is undoubtedly true. It is that after the brightness fades and the picnic on the slope is swept up, when all the august crowd that was there that day has long since blended into sand, we still have books. Strap-hanging on the subway, paperback in hand. Curled up on a couch on a rainy afternoon, where the realest weather seems between the covers of a novel. Sinai is everywhere, if only we can see it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cover illustration: Mount Sinai (Arabic: \u0637\u0648\u0631 \u0633\u064a\u0646\u0627\u0621\u200e \u1e6c\u016br S\u012bn\u0101\u02bc\u202f or \u062c\u0628\u0644 \u0645\u0648\u0633\u0649 Jabal M\u016bs\u00e1\u202f; Egyptian Arabic: Gabal M\u016bsa, lit. &#8220;Moses&#8217; Mountain&#8221; or &#8220;Mount Moses&#8221;; Hebrew: \u05d4\u05e8 \u05e1\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u200e Har Sinai ), is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt that is the traditional and most accepted identification of the biblical Mount Sinai. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photographer: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:M_mousa_86\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mohammed Moussa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":42529,"id":42529,"title":"","filename":"Mount_Moses.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sinai-is-everywhere\/mount_moses\/","alt":"","author":"50634","description":"","caption":"","name":"mount_moses","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":42528,"date":"2018-10-21 17:57:27","modified":"2022-05-18 03:25:45","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":536,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses-300x201.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":201,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses-768x515.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":515,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":536,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":536,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":536,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses-627x420.jpg","home_baner-width":627,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Sinai Is Everywhere","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"After the brightness fades, we still have books","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":42529,"id":42529,"title":"","filename":"Mount_Moses.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sinai-is-everywhere\/mount_moses\/","alt":"","author":"50634","description":"","caption":"","name":"mount_moses","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":42528,"date":"2018-10-21 17:57:27","modified":"2022-05-18 03:25:45","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":536,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses-300x201.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":201,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses-768x515.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":515,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":536,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":536,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":536,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mount_Moses-627x420.jpg","home_baner-width":627,"home_baner-height":420}},"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":"<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mount_Moses.jpg#\/media\/File:Mount_Moses.jpg\">Mount Sinai<\/a> (Arabic: \u0637\u0648\u0631 \u0633\u064a\u0646\u0627\u0621\u200e \u1e6c\u016br S\u012bn\u0101\u02bc\u202f or \u062c\u0628\u0644 \u0645\u0648\u0633\u0649 Jabal M\u016bs\u00e1\u202f; 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