{"id":48873,"date":"2019-02-06T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=48873"},"modified":"2022-08-31T22:11:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:11:32","slug":"an-experience-beyond-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/an-experience-beyond-words\/","title":{"rendered":"An Experience Beyond Words"},"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":[442,798],"acf":{"old_id":"48873","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37333,"related_cahpter":"150","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The spaces between the letters hint at the details of the journey","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is difficult to capture a moment. Time may be fleeting, but it can also seem interminable. When we look forward in time, a year seems a lifetime away. But when we look back in time, a year ago feels like yesterday. A fifteen-hour flight can feel never-ending, a one-week holiday can pass like a day. Photography captures a place at a particular time. As philosopher Roland Barthes explains, \u201cWhat the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.\u201d A photograph freezes a moment, imbuing even the most fleeting of moments with a form of permanence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Torah, we find snapshots made of words rather than pictures. Moments that happened so very long ago are there for us, preserved in black and white. Midrash tells us that the Torah was written \u2018with letters of black fire on a surface of white fire\u2019, showing that the spaces between the Hebrew letters form a crucial part of the text (Midrash Tanchuma Breishit 1:1). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the unwritten tells us something beyond the written words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Torah tells us: \u2018These were the marches of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt, troop by troop, in the charge of Moses and Aaron\u2019 (Numbers 33:1). And here, in the long list of forty-two places where the people of Israel stopped, rested or passed through, we find the Torah\u2019s picture of the journey from Egypt to freedom. From Rameses to Succoth to Etham. From Marah to Elim to the Sea of Reeds. From Tahath to Terah to Mithkah. We can only imagine what it was really like: the oppressive desert heat, the instability of moving all the time, the constant work of setting up and dismantling camp. The spaces between the letters hint at the details of the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, the Torah paints us a picture of an experience beyond words. The white fire, the space between the letters, communicates something more than the black fire of the letters themselves. A record of a transformational journey, a shift from slavery to autonomy, the beginning of peoplehood. 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