{"id":45993,"date":"2018-12-18T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45993"},"modified":"2022-07-13T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:30:49","slug":"we-dont-own-the-land-the-land-owns-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/we-dont-own-the-land-the-land-owns-us\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Own the Land; The Land Owns Us"},"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":[497,779],"acf":{"old_id":"45993","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"115","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"You get to dwell on it and care for it for a spell; then you will pass and be buried in it","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the delusions of contemporary Western society is the odd notion of ownership. \u201cMy\u201d house, \u201cmy\u201d dog, \u201cmy\u201d car. We use these possessive pronouns to indicate an exclusive control, as if these objects (often living creatures themselves) are to be defined and constrained by being subject to our will and accessible uniquely to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the one hand, there is something quaint about mortal mammals, as ephemeral as we are, thinking we can control plots of land, mountains, rivers, beach front lots. As though the land can be contained and subject to us. And on a deeper level, there is something truly monstrous \u2013 an absurd outburst of narcissistic ego, in the claims of homo sapiens that the rest of the natural order should be under our control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the battle over what owns who, the Torah clearly is on the side of the land. In a call of clear insight, the Torah proclaims, \u201cThe land must not be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine; you are but strangers resident with Me. Throughout the land that you hold, you must provide for the redemption of the land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here the Torah gives voice to the land itself, and to its real (and only) claimant. Silly mortal, you who were born and are destined to die, you do not own the land. You get to dwell on it, live with it, enjoy and care for it for a spell. And then you will pass and be buried in the land. And the land will continue without you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we are to come and go, yet the land abides, then our attitude toward the land should not be one of ownership, manipulation, or control. It should be one of care, and foresight, and conservation. We should live on the land in such a way that our children and their children will have the opportunity to do the same: to be sustained by the land, inspired by it, and drilled in responsible stewardship by it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How we live on the land (and how we love it) will carve our character as surely as any schooling. And the resulting flourishing, of the land and of its residents, will be seen in our resilience, our deeper belonging, and in the land\u2019s wellbeing itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are but residents here. 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