{"id":47999,"date":"2019-01-23T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47999"},"modified":"2022-08-17T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:24:30","slug":"integrity-and-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/integrity-and-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrity And Courage"},"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":[395,506],"acf":{"old_id":"47999","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"140","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Balaam invites us each to step up to our inner prophet","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pagan prophet Balaam has been summoned by Balak, King of the Amorites, to curse Israel so he could destroy us. Again and again, the king accommodates the demands of the prophet, hoping that he will then be able to curse, yet time and again Balaam responds by blessing the Children of Israel. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In indignation, Balak explodes: \u201cWhat have you done to me. Here I brought you to damn my enemies, and instead you have blessed them!\u201d In answer, Balaam says \u201cI can only repeat faithfully what the Lord puts in my mouth. (Numbers 23: 11,12).\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is Balaam explaining the mechanics of prophecy, that he is physically incapable of saying anything other than what God programs him to articulate? Or is he saying something deeper, that being \u00a0a prophet means listening to one\u2019s truest intuitions and articulating only that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowhere does the Torah (or Bible) present prophecy as kidnapped speech. Prophets are free to evade, flee, falsify. Of course, in choosing those strategies, they betray themselves, their God, and prophecy itself. To be a true prophet is to discern one\u2019s inner truth and to put that truth into words, regardless of the consequences. Prophets are rarely popular. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read in that light, Balaam invites us each to step up to our inner prophet. What intuition do you know from the inside out, yet fear to articulate? 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