{"id":47008,"date":"2019-01-06T21:19:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T19:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47008"},"modified":"2022-08-01T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:46:09","slug":"a-chapter-of-thirst-hunger-and-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-chapter-of-thirst-hunger-and-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chapter Of Thirst, Hunger And Complaints"},"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":[653,394,397,804],"acf":{"old_id":"47008","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":47016,"related_cahpter":"128","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Primal needs, desires, emotions are our waystations in the desert","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a chapter of pain that cannot, at the moment, be contained. The people are unhappy, complaining, and their unhappiness reaches God\u2019s ears. Then God becomes angry and the anger bursts into flame which eats at the edges of the camp. The people call out to Moses, who prays to God, and the fire subsides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But just as in a family or a community or even in an individual\u2019s life, when things are not well &#8212; one \u201cfire\u201d is put out and even as you are still breathing a sigh of relief, another \u201cfire\u201d has erupted &#8212; here, too, the subsided flame does not bring real relief. It doesn\u2019t mean well-being, or peace, or a realigned balance. It\u2019s only a respite until the trouble resumes, in another round or another direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fire\u2019s ashes are still hot, so to speak, when the people of Israel beg for meat. They cry out for the foods of \u201chome,\u201d ironically Egypt, and they declare that their \u201csoul is dry.\u201d Thirst and hunger have taken them over. All of us know the force of those primal needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the intensity of this scene, Moses, too, is drawn into the trouble which previously he found himself able to mediate and to quiet. God\u2019s anger at Israel is renewed, and this whole scene is \u201c<em>ra&#8217;<\/em>\u201d in Moses\u2019 eyes: the complaint, God\u2019s anger, the intensity of demand upon him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<em>Ra&#8217;<\/em>,\u201d \u05e8\u05e2, evil \u2013 the word repeats four times in the first fifteen verses of this chapter. We hear a related sound in the description of the \u201cburning\u201d of God\u2019s fire in response to evil \u2013<em>ba\u2019ar<\/em> \u2013 \u05d1\u05e2\u05e8 \u2013 the root repeating three times. Even Moses\u2019 angry plea to God, \u201cdid I carry this people in <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pregnancy<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that they should cry to me now for meat?\u201d &#8212; <em>he-anochi hariti<\/em> \u2013 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d0\u05e0\u05db\u05d9&#8211; repeats the sound of \u05f4<em>ra<\/em>,\u05f4 suggesting that it\u2019s been trouble from the very start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we dwell in this chapter for a moment before moving on to its resolution and to the long-term historical resolution of the journey through the desert, we are invited to recognize how difficult it is to sense \u201c<em>ra<\/em>\u201d at the heart of our relations. Primal needs, desires, emotions \u2013 the desire for meat, the desire for someone to feed us, for someone to take our children and raise them when what they ask seems too great or impossible, even the desire that Moses expresses, simply to die because the demands are too much \u2013 all these desires are our waystations in the desert, and God, Moses, and the people of Israel have been there before us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image:\u00a0Eric Dufresne from Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Canada [CC BY 2.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia 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