{"id":47195,"date":"2019-01-09T09:32:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T07:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47195"},"modified":"2022-08-02T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:33:15","slug":"we-looked-like-grasshoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/we-looked-like-grasshoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"We Looked Like Grasshoppers"},"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":[807,808],"acf":{"old_id":"47195","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":39525,"related_cahpter":"130","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"How self-image influences our perceptions of others\u2019 perceptions of us","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut the men who had gone up with him said, \u2018We cannot attack that people, for it is stronger than we.\u2019 Thus they spread calumnies among the Israelites about the land they had scouted, saying, \u2018The country that we traversed and scouted is one that devours its settlers. All the people that we saw in it are men of great size; we saw the Nephilim there\u2014the Anakites are part of the Nephilim\u2014and we looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them\u2019\u201d (Num 13: 31-33).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The leaders who scouted out Canaan returned with a mixed report. The fruit in the Promised Land was big but so were the enemies. What good would abundance do if it could not be enjoyed in safety? This tremor of worry spread quickly through the camp, hampering the movement forward, resulting in tragedy. The people who were anxious about dying in the future were instead punished with death in the present for their betrayal of the mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were told to report on what they saw but instead reported on what they felt, making calamitous and limiting judgments on their own capabilities. The text identifies the inhabitants of Canaan as men of great size using two Hebrew names; Anakites and Nephilim (giants and titans) both suggest humans of mythic proportions. In contrast, the Israelites saw themselves as lowly and small: \u201c\u2026and we looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can state what you think of yourself but cannot always be trusted when assuming what someone else thinks of you. They may have seen themselves as grasshoppers, but their enemies did not. In fact, the Israelites were completely wrong, as one of my students once observed. Moab when speaking to the elders of Midian about the Israelites compared them to one of the strongest animals in the ancient world: \u201cNow this horde will lick clean all that is about us as an ox licks up the grass of the field\u201d (Numbers 22:4).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes we see ourselves as weak and believe that others think of us the same way. But perhaps we\u2019re wrong. 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