{"id":51496,"date":"2019-03-17T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=51496"},"modified":"2022-10-09T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:15:52","slug":"justice-short-and-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/justice-short-and-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice, Short And Long"},"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":[444,391,547,400],"acf":{"old_id":"51496","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36423,"related_cahpter":"177","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The honor and horror of histories that have never stopped haunting us","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s chapter contains one of the most ringing declarations of criminal justice ever conceived. Verse 16 reads \u201cthe fathers should not be put to death for the children, neither should the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.\u201d This is close to a first principal of reward and punishment. We are all graced and burdened with free will, and as far back as the flora and fauna of Eden and the plains outside of Sodom the nexus between crime and punishment only seems just when it is sewn tightly. We hardly can conceive of any greater <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">injustice <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">than to hold someone culpable for the guilt of another. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, the picture is considerably more complicated. We live in a moral universe that is temporally muddied. Just two verses later, it is the intergenerational memory of Egypt that is used to justify a set of behaviors in the present. Exodus 34:7 promises that the iniquities of the fathers are visited on the sons, wreaking havoc for up to four generations. Good deeds continue paying dividends for a thousand generations; our most distant descendants will cash the checks of our most remote ancestors. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of our most contentious contemporary debates center on the challenge of stretching guilt or innocence across the skein of time; the reparations paid by Germany to Israel, the recent call by Ta-Nehisi Coates and David Brooks for a monetary reckoning for the great and haunting sin of slavery, the ongoing catastrophes that have cascaded from the Native American dispossession and genocide. Some argue that the way the justice system focuses on arid causalities between deed and consequence obscure the larger rhymes between past injustice and present reality. Somehow, we are meant to hold two impossible ideas in implacable tension. Each is judged for the work of their own hands, and we are all seamed with the honor and horror of histories that have never stopped haunting us. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image: Egyptian papyrus, The Weighing of the Heart \/ wikimedia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":51501,"id":51501,"title":"dt24-Weighing_of_the_heart","filename":"dt24-Weighing_of_the_heart.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt24-Weighing_of_the_heart.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/justice-short-and-long\/dt24-weighing_of_the_heart\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt24-weighing_of_the_heart","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":51496,"date":"2019-03-17 20:23:31","modified":"2019-03-17 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