{"id":50233,"date":"2019-02-25T22:53:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=50233"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T07:19:03","slug":"god-loves-particulars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/god-loves-particulars\/","title":{"rendered":"God Loves Particulars"},"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":[384,436,453],"acf":{"old_id":"50233","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"163","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Only those who can make space for strangers can make space for the God of the Hebrew Bible","content":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. So you must love the stranger, for you yourselves were strangers in Egypt. (Deut. 10: 17-19)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God is the voice of the other within the self, that tells us that neither we, nor our desires, nor the group to which we belong, are the measure of all things. There is a higher court than the bar of human reason; there is a higher imperative than the law of the land; there is a force greater than that of human might; there are larger considerations than human interests and larger perspectives than the here-and-now. God is the absolutely other and the otherly absolute, without knowledge of whom men have destroyed one another in the past and may destroy life on earth in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God loves particulars. He is not Plato&#8217;s god who lives in a remote heaven amid the conceptual forms of things-in-general. He is the God who made the universe with its hundred billion galaxies, each with a hundred billion stars; the God who made the three million different species of life thus far known to us; who made the human person, each of whom is different from the others; who created diversity and asked us to celebrate it, honouring the individual above the collective, the person above the state, the nation above the empire, the particular not just the universal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So God tells Abraham to leave his land, birthplace and father&#8217;s house, the roots of tribalism, of blood and belonging. He makes his children experience the dark side of empire, discovering and never forgetting what it feels like to be enslaved by the ruling power. The people of the covenant are born as a people through the experience of being strangers in a strange land, and are then commanded (thirty-six times, as the rabbis noted) to love the stranger. 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