{"id":50230,"date":"2019-02-25T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T17:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=50230"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T07:26:15","slug":"how-to-circumcise-a-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/how-to-circumcise-a-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Circumcise A Heart!?"},"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":[552,447,540],"acf":{"old_id":"50230","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37918,"related_cahpter":"163","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"And cause a total transformation of one\u2019s inner life","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses tells the people that in order for God\u2019s blessings to be fulfilled, in order for Israel to achieve its destiny, something dramatic will have to change. Moses instructs the people: \u201cCircumcise (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">u-maltem<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) the foreskin of your hearts (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">orlat levavkhem<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and stiffen your necks no more\u201d (Deuteronomy 10:16).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is circumcision of the heart? The second half of the verse elucidates the first: A circumcised heart is the antithesis of a stiffened neck. Bible scholar Moshe Weinfeld explains that \u201can uncircumcised heart, like an uncircumcised ear (Jeremiah 6:10) and uncircumcised lips (Exodus 6:12, 30), means than an organ is incapable of absorbing feelings and impressions from the outside.\u201d To circumcise the heart, then, is to open it, and thereby to become genuinely receptive to God and God\u2019s command. The image of a circumcised heart thus symbolizes \u201cachieving a condition of responsive openness to God\u2019s word.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scholars have long struggled to understand just what the heart (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lev<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) symbolizes in biblical thinking. Some interpreters insist that in the Torah, the heart is \u201cconsidered, not the seat of feelings, but of intelligence,\u201d in which case what the Torah asks for in our verse is for Israel is to open its mind. Others assert that it is the \u201cthe organ of volition,\u201d in which case what is called for is a conversion of the will. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More convincing, in my view, is a more expansive interpretation, according to which \u201cthe heart in Hebrew thought is the preeminent metaphor for the inner being of a person, the seat of intelligence; the seat of emotions; and the seat of volition, i.e., the will.\u201d Moses thus demands that the people totally transform their inner lives, so that they will now respond to God\u2019s command with loyalty, readiness, and faithfulness. 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