{"id":47734,"date":"2019-01-19T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47734"},"modified":"2022-08-14T14:18:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:18:55","slug":"divine-justice-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/divine-justice-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Justice \u2013 Then And Now"},"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":[397,547,400],"acf":{"old_id":"47734","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"137","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":" Did the punishment fit the crime?","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first part of our chapter relates the tragic story of Mei-Meribah (\u201cthe Waters of Quarrelling\u201d &#8212; Numbers 20:1-13, compare Exodus 17:1-7). Again, the people complain to Moses, this time at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, that there is no water for them or their animals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses is told by God: \u201cYou and your brother Aaron take the rod and assemble the community, and before their very eyes order the rock to yield its water. Thus, you shall produce water for them from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their beasts\u2019\u2026Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation in front of the rock; and he [Moses] said to them, \u2018Listen you rebels! Shall we get water for you out of this rock?\u2019 And Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod. Out came copious water, and the community and their beasts drank\u201d (verses 8-11). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then &#8212; surprisingly \u2013 Moses and Aaron are punished by God: \u201cBut the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, \u2018Because you did not trust Me enough to affirm My sanctity in the sight of the Israelite people, therefore you shall not lead this congregation into the land that I have given them\u2019\u201d. (verse 12). Considering that Moses may have shown only a momentary lack of faith by physically striking the rock, rather than by just commanding it verbally as God had ordered (compare Exodus 17:3-7), the punishment meted out to him here seems overly harsh. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Midrash (Tanhuma Huqqat 10 and parallels) Moses could have challenged God by saying: \u201cI did not transgress Your words! Why am I to be punished by dying before leading the people into the Promised Land?! A parable graphically depicts such a problematic situation. Two women were punished by a court, one who corrupted herself (through prostitution) and the other who only committed the minor offense of eating prohibited unripe figs in the Sabbatical Year. The one who committed the minor offense petitioned the court to publicize her offense so that people will know that she did not commit a serious crime. So too Moses said to the Holy One, Blessed be He, because you have condemned me to die in the Desert together with this wicked generation who angered You, people will think that I was just like them. Let it be written about me for what I am being punished. And so, it is written, \u201cBecause you did not trust Me enough to affirm My sanctity in the sight of the Israelite people, therefore you shall not lead this congregation into the land that I have given them\u201d. 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