{"id":47202,"date":"2019-01-09T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T07:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47202"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:52:15","slug":"can-we-challenge-gods-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/can-we-challenge-gods-judgement\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Challenge God\u2019s Judgement?"},"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":[376,375,384],"acf":{"old_id":"47202","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":42746,"related_cahpter":"130","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Even God can\u2019t decide for you who you are, what you\u2019ll be, where you go...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last summer I had the amazing opportunity to do chaplaincy training at Bellevue Hospital in NYC, the first public hospital in the US. During a Sunday shift, all alone in the 800 beds facility, the phone rang: the psych patients on the 18th floor are bored and want a little spiritual something. Would I please come up?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people in the room are Christian, Chinese, Muslim, Used-to-be-Jewish and of no religion at all. I have no idea what they are expecting, and anyway, I can\u2019t do anything but tell them my people\u2019s stories, specifically, about that week\u2019s Torah portion. I share briefly the story of the spies (Numbers 13). I ask them what they think about checking up on God, if God promises you a Land of milk and honey, should you be a true believer, who trusts God, or still send someone to check once again what\u2019s going on before schlepping 2 million people in?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their vote is unanimous: definitely check again. But, I try to push-back, it\u2019s God\u2019s Land! What if God sends you? \u201cAh\u201d, they wave me off with a sad smile, not knowing they are in essence quoting Or Hachayim and others, \u201chere we all hear God telling us all sorts of things all the time. Even God can\u2019t decide for you who you are, what you\u2019ll be, where you go&#8230; You do. God gives you options, good and bad. You need to figure things out for yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese men did good\u201d, they summarize confidently, and I think, this story will never look the same.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Can We Challenge God\u2019s Judgement?","main_caption":"Even God can\u2019t decide for you who you are, what you\u2019ll be, where you go... You do. God gives you options, good and bad. You need to figure things out for yourself","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106962,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47202\/revisions\/106962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}