{"id":52699,"date":"2019-03-31T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=52699"},"modified":"2019-03-31T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:04:13","slug":"anguish-accomplishment-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/anguish-accomplishment-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Anguish, Accomplishment, Redemption"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"52699","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36147,"related_cahpter":"2005","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Genesis 3:16,19 - \u201cI will make most severe your pangs in childbearing; In pain shall you bear children\u2026. By the sweat of your brow shall you get bread to eat, until you return to the ground\"\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I find myself thinking often about Genesis 3:16 and 19, the \u201cpunishment\u201d handed down to Eve and Adam towards the end of the Eden story. Her fate is, in part, \u201cyou shall bear children in pain,\u201d and his is, \u201cby the sweat of your brow shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth.\u201d These sentences spell the end of the Edenic existence, which was painless but ultimately meaningless, and eternally meaningless. The life in store for the First Couple was one of gardening and caretaking, devoid of challenges and suffering, and therefore devoid of any possibility of accomplishment or satisfaction, except in the most trivial senses. And this was planned to go on forever &#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">literally<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> forever, as the Tree of Life was open to their consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This life ended in Genesis 3, with the divine decree of a new life. So much of human existence \u2013 of the pain and frustration, the existential anguish and thoughts of nihilism, as well as the glimmers of hope for redemption and meaningfulness \u2013 are adumbrated in these lines. Children come with pain \u2013 and yet often with the most sublime sense of accomplishment and pride. Agriculture is back-breaking and caste-making, but produces not only literal bread (no small feat!) but all of human society and technology. And then death looms. We, alone in the animal kingdom, spend much of our time consumed by our knowledge of the inevitable, and our quest to do something worthwhile in the time we have until then. Towards that end, we sweat, we work, we produce the next generation, and we hope that, little by little, our actions can redeem the cursed land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Jews\/Verses\/Tanakh","main_caption":"Anguish, Accomplishment, Redemption","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Genesis 3:16,19 - \u201cI will make most severe your pangs in childbearing; In pain shall you bear children\u2026. 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