{"id":44587,"date":"2018-11-25T14:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=44587"},"modified":"2022-06-19T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:28:13","slug":"gratitude-with-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/gratitude-with-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude With Attitude"},"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":[520,354],"acf":{"old_id":"44587","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"97","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The instinct to give thanks is one of the signals of transcendence in the human condition","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first words we are taught to say each morning, immediately on waking, are Modeh\/modah ani, \u201cI give thanks.\u201d We thank before we think. Note that the normal word order is inverted: Modeh ani, not ani modeh, so that in Hebrew the \u201cthanks\u201d comes before the \u201cI.\u201d Judaism is \u201cgratitude with attitude.\u201d And this, according to recent scientific research, really is a life-enhancing idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source of the command to give thanks is to be found in this week\u2019s parsha. Among the sacrifices it itemises is the <em>korban todah<\/em>, the thanksgiving offering: \u201cIf he offers it [the sacrifice] as a thanksgiving offering, then along with this thanksgiving offering he is to offer unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and loaves of fine flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil\u201d (Lev. 7:12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though we have been without sacrifices for almost two thousand years, a trace of the thanksgiving offering survives to this day, in the form of the blessing Hagomel: \u201cWho bestows good things on the unworthy\u201d, said in the synagogue, at the time of reading of the Torah, by one who has survived a hazardous situation. This is defined by the sages (on the basis of Psalm 107), as one who has survived a sea-crossing, or travelled across a desert, or recovered from serious illness, or been released from captivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, the almost universal instinct to give thanks is one of the signals of transcendence in the human condition. It is not just the pilot we want to thank when we land safely after a hazardous flight; not just the surgeon when we survive an operation; not just the judge or politician when we are released from prison or captivity. It is as if some larger force was operative, as if the hand that moves the pieces on the human chessboard were thinking of us; as if Heaven itself had reached down and come to our aid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Giving Thanks (Covenant &amp; Conversation, Tzav 5778)<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":50046,"id":50046,"title":"dt8-gratitude","filename":"dt8-gratitude.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt8-gratitude.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/one-of-the-biggest-weaknesses-of-human-behavior\/dt8-gratitude\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt8-gratitude","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":50022,"date":"2019-02-24 07:18:13","modified":"2022-06-19 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