{"id":45511,"date":"2018-12-11T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45511"},"modified":"2022-07-06T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T08:04:48","slug":"holiness-is-a-high-bar-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/holiness-is-a-high-bar-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiness Is A High Bar Indeed"},"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":[538,480,354],"acf":{"old_id":"45511","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"109","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"God does not ask us not to fail, but rather to acknowledge our failures, repair what we have harmed, and move on","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judaism sets the bar high, expecting great things of us in word and deed. So demanding are the Torah\u2019s commandments that we cannot but fall short some, even much, of the time. God asks us in some sense to be like Him (\u201cBe holy for I, the Lord your God, am holy\u201d [Lev. 19:2). Yet how can we be equal to such a challenge when we are, and know we are, human, all too human? How can we fail to disappoint Him? Better surely to accept what we are than aspire to be better than we are. Yet this is a recipe for faint hearts and small spirits, and it is a route Judaism never took. Better to fail while striving greatly than not to strive at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judaism\u2019s resolution to this tension is so radical that it transformed the moral horizons of humankind. It says that the God of love and forgiveness created us in love and forgiveness, asking that we love and forgive others. God does not ask us not to fail. Rather, He asks us to acknowledge our failures, repair what we have harmed, and move on, learning from our errors and growing thereby. Human life, thus conceived, is neither tragic nor mired in sin. But it is demanding, intensely so. Therefore at its heart there had to be an institution capable of transmuting guilt into moral growth, and estrangement from God or our fellow humans into reconciliation. 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