{"id":46200,"date":"2018-12-23T00:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=46200"},"modified":"2022-07-11T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:21:55","slug":"the-joy-of-quotidian-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-joy-of-quotidian-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy Of Quotidian Commitment"},"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":[375,743,687],"acf":{"old_id":"46200","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37918,"related_cahpter":"113","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Celebrating the morning after - and the morning after that, and after that","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Leviticus 23 offers its portrait of the holiday cycle, it attaches a special mandate to Sukkot: \u201cYou shall rejoice (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u-semachtem<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) before the Lord your God seven days\u201d (Leviticus 23:40). Of all the sacred days of the year, Sukkot alone is explicitly linked to joy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of the holiday\u2019s agricultural dimension, the link is obvious: During this fall festival the harvest is being gathered, and Israel is thankful for its bounty. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what about the historical dimension? What historical event is the source of Sukkot joy? Pesach recalls and re-enacts the Exodus from Egypt. Shavuot, in the rabbinic imagination, recalls and re-enacts the revelation at Mount Sinai. Each of these two spring festivals marks one of Judaism\u2019s foundational events. Which orienting moment does Sukkot recall? The striking answer is that Sukkot harkens back to&#8230; no particular event at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is something profoundly surprising here: The festivals focused on the two defining events in Jewish history and theology\u2014Exodus and Sinai\u2014are not the ones Judaism most powerfully connects with joy. The most joyous days of the year do not commemorate earth-shattering, world-transforming events but rather the arduous and protracted journey from Exodus to destination. To be sure, in the biblical account God is radically present with Israel in the desert\u2014and memories of God\u2019s providential care lie at the heart of the holiday. And yet Judaism does not primarily connect joy to the great moments when God interrupts history and turns things upside down, but rather to something far more sober\u2014to the attempt to live with God in the day-to-day march through the desert, through history, and through life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the joy of the quotidian and the pedestrian\u2014the utterly non-ecstatic; it is the joy of commitment and responsibility rather than of uplift and exhilaration. Covenant is not just about intimacy; it is also, and fundamentally, about faithfulness. Note the wonderful paradox here: Sukkot is the holiday that celebrates the non-holiday (the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>yontef<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that delights in <em>c<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hol<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), the sacred time that celebrates regular time, the festival that celebrates not the high points but the morning after\u2014and the morning after that as well. Like a good marriage, the covenant between God and Israel requires moments of excitement and jubilation. 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