{"id":50172,"date":"2019-02-24T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=50172"},"modified":"2022-09-15T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T05:03:52","slug":"when-the-burden-of-memory-becomes-a-life-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/when-the-burden-of-memory-becomes-a-life-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"When The Burden Of Memory Becomes a Life-Jacket"},"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":[405],"acf":{"old_id":"50172","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":49857,"related_cahpter":"162","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Love is inviolable when you have done the worst and been forgiven","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember, never forget, how you angered God in the wilderness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we read this, in moments of goodness, it feels like a burden. Can we never be forgiven? Will our ancestors sin always keep us stained, even on our most shining days? Is it still in our veins, in our blood, the gold flecked, idolatry saturated water that Moses made us drink in the aftermath of our darkest day?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But on the other days, our sin-filled days, the days when we know that if we were there we might have done the same&#8211;and there are more of those days than we would like to admit&#8211;the burden of memory becomes a lifejacket. On those days, when our stiff necks are like iron, on the days when we come face to face with our inadequacies, on the days when we find ourselves questioning whether God might have made a better choice, and whether God still might&#8211;it is this memory that tells us that our relationship is inviolable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the safety that comes from having seen the brink, from having peered over the edge of the mountain. It is the love that comes from knowing that you have seen the worst, that you have done the worst, and been forgiven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Sinai was the first covenant of the Jewish people, then the aftermath of golden calf was the second: the promise that covenant endures even after its terms have been broken; the promise of love at our most unlovable; the promise that we haven\u2019t come into this relationship because God is deluded about who we are, but even though, maybe even because, God knows the worst.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember, never forget, that you angered God in the wilderness. 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