{"id":47340,"date":"2019-01-12T20:19:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47340"},"modified":"2022-08-05T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:14:03","slug":"the-good-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-good-old-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Old Days"},"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":[469,598,405,810],"acf":{"old_id":"47340","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"131","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The consequences of giving in to nostalgia doomed a generation of our ancestors, and can have that same devastating consequence today if we let it","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not unusual for people to miss the days that have already passed, as we all have a tendency to forget the negative and recall only the good of what is no longer with us. We do that with friends that have moved away, loved ones no longer alive, jobs or schools we no longer are affiliated with. The daily struggles and challenges fade with time, leaving us an artificially-distorted perception that those days were idyllic and lovely in ways that these more bleak and trying times are not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the most famous example of such warped memory finds expression as the Israelites struggle with their newest challenge. Spies from the Israelites return from scouting out the land of Canaan, and report that the people there are like giants, powerful and strong. The report of the spies is so devastating that the Israelites don\u2019t want to go forward. Indeed, the terror gripping them is so devastating that they even forget what Egyptian slavery was actually like. It was, don\u2019t forget, their anguished cries that drew God\u2019s attention and launched the exodus in the first place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But now, facing the challenge of entering the Land of Israel and having to fight for their place in the land, they look back with longing and recall a past that is literally too good to be true: \u201cIf only we had died in the land of Egypt, the whole community shouted at them, \u2026 It would be better for us to go back to Egypt! (2, 3).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better to go back to relentless whippings, to endless toil, to despotism and despair! Such is the power of a false nostalgia that it unhinges our better judgment, blinds us to the possibilities inherent in the present, distances us from the courage we need to transform tomorrow for the good. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are all those newly-newly-liberated slaves, all standing on the narrow precipice of the present. Dare we to face down our fears, to admit that our nostalgia and yearning is for a past that is warped by our opportunities, and then to muster ourselves to face and conquer today\u2019s challenges? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The consequences of giving in to their nostalgia, with its false comfort, doomed a generation of our ancestors. It will have that same devastating consequence today if we let it. 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