{"id":50273,"date":"2019-02-26T15:54:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=50273"},"modified":"2022-09-21T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T09:16:51","slug":"the-manna-principle-in-the-land-of-milk-and-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-manna-principle-in-the-land-of-milk-and-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manna Principle In The Land of Milk and Honey"},"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":[370,637,780],"acf":{"old_id":"50273","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37918,"related_cahpter":"164","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A land that requires dependence on Heaven for the rain to grow the bread","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deuteronomy faces a problem: It is one thing to acknowledge dependence in the desert, where provisions are meager, but what of a land where blessings abound, and milk and honey flow freely?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses utters what appear to be odd words of praise for the land: \u201cFor the land you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come&#8230; It is a land which the Lord your God looks after, on which the Lord your God always keeps His eyes, from year\u2019s beginning to year\u2019s end\u201d (11:10-12). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast to Egypt, where crops grow only on land irrigated by human hands, the whole land of Israel is watered directly by God. As a midrash explains, since Egypt is irrigated by the Nile, highlands must be watered by hand, with great human effort. Since Israel is watered by Heaven, both highlands and low are watered without human effort. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet the comparison with Egypt does not play obviously into Israel\u2019s favor:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It may require strenuous labor to cultivate the land of Egypt, but at least one knows what one will get; in the land of Israel, the price of ease may be uncertainty and anxiety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Meir Leibush Weiser (Malbim, 1809-1879) asks why God relocates the people to Israel instead of simply giving them the land of Egypt. The answer, Malbim suggests, is that Egypt is irrigated by the Nile once a year, whereas Israel is in constant need of rain. To live in Israel, he concludes, is to realize that one \u201cneeds divine mercy at each and every moment.\u201d Living in Egypt, one can easily forget God; living in Israel, aware of one\u2019s ongoing dependence, one is more likely to remember God at all times (comments to Deuteronomy 11:10). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be dependent on the rain, in other words, is to be dependent on the God who sends the rain. In the wilderness, Israel looked heavenward for bread itself; in the Land of Promise, it will look heavenward\u2014for the rain which will enable it to grow bread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In many ways, conditions in the land will be the very opposite of the wilderness: Where before the people faced the peril of having too little, now they will face the challenge of having too much. 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