{"id":47865,"date":"2019-01-21T00:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T22:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47865"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:18:26","slug":"the-blessing-of-a-snakebite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-blessing-of-a-snakebite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing Of A Snakebite"},"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":[442,621,544],"acf":{"old_id":"47865","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38035,"related_cahpter":"138","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Meeting the twists and turns of the difficult journey","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though plagues are common throughout the book of Numbers<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the plague of the snakes stands out from the rest. The nation complained about food and were punished with so much quail that it \u201ccame out of their nostrils\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(11:20). They did not have faith that God would bring them to the promised land, so they were refused entry (14:23)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their complaints in our chapter can thus be expected to be met by a similar tit for tat, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><\/i><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">midah k\u2019neged midah<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026The people became disheartened because of the hardship of the journey. The people spoke against God and against Moshe, \u2018Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in this desert, for there is no bread and no water, and we are disgusted by this rotten bread.\u2019 The Lord sent against the people the venomous snakes, and they bit the people, and many of the people of Israel died (21:4-6). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The complaint here is not specific; it is fatigue of the journey itself. The Israelites are finally on their way to Canaan, but the journey remains circuitous, filled with twists and turns. Twists and turns, it should be noted, that mirror the movement of the snake, a being unable to travel in a straight line towards its destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is only one cure for the plague of the snakes; confronting the snake, and the inevitable frustrations on the journey of life which it represents, face to face. \u201cMoshe made a copper serpent and mounted it on a standard; and when anyone was bitten by a serpent, he would look at the copper snake and recover\u201d (21:9). 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