{"id":45988,"date":"2018-12-18T22:31:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45988"},"modified":"2022-07-13T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:51:34","slug":"god-imitates-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/god-imitates-man\/","title":{"rendered":"God Imitates Man"},"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":[542,363,780,777],"acf":{"old_id":"45988","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"115","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Compassion below arouses compassion above","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leviticus Chapter 25:35-55 commands us to care for a fellow Israelite who has fallen on bad times. The Midrash on this selection (Leviticus Rabbah 34:14) preserves a dramatic and instructive narrative of how a renowned rabbinic sage convinced God to care for His people in imitation of human kindness that exceeded normal halakhic constraints. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In time of drought, Rabbi Tanhuma repeatedly declared a fast to bring rain, but so far without success. \u00a0He then preached to the people and instructed them to distribute charity to those in need. One man went out to distribute what he had in his home. His divorcee accosted him saying, \u201cGive me charity, for ever since I left your home, no good has befallen me.\u201d Seeing that his former wife was indeed in great straits, he was filled with compassion for her and gave her charity. Another man, seeing the exchange of money, informed Rabbi Tanhuma and said, \u201cI have seen a man giving money to his divorcee, which can only mean he is continuing to have prohibited intimate relations with her!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Tanhuma had the man brought before him and said: \u201cMy son, you know that the world is in distress and mankind is in distress, yet you go and meet with your divorcee and even give her money, which raises suspicion that you are engaging in prohibited relations with her\u201d. The man replied: \u201cBut did you not call upon us to distribute charity and tell us \u2018not to ignore your own kin\u2019 (Isaiah 58:7)?! \u2026 how could I ignore the distress of a woman to whom I was once so close?!\u201d. Hearing this, Rabbi Tanhuma looked to heaven and cried out to the Holy One, blessed be He, \u201cKing of the Universe! This man, who is no longer responsible for the maintenance of his ex-wife, was filled with compassion for her. 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