{"id":52707,"date":"2019-03-31T22:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=52707"},"modified":"2019-03-31T22:12:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:12:33","slug":"take-the-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/take-the-leap\/","title":{"rendered":"Take The Leap!"},"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":"52707","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"2005","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Exodus 14:15 - \u201cThen the LORD said to Moses, 'Why do you cry out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.'\u201d\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the Israelites stood between a rock and a hard place, between their Egyptian pursuers and the Red Sea, God said to Moses \u201cWhy do you cry out to me? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell the Israelites to go forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a time for prayer and a time for action, and throughout Chumash there are examples like this of God telling us, \u201cyou first\u201d. \u00a0How powerful and empowering a message it is, that we work in partnership with God, and that our part comes first: and only then will He work His miracles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was at that same moment that we learn, through the Talmud (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sotah 36,a) and several<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Midrashim, that Nachshon ben Aminadav, a prince of the tribe of Judah, jumped into action. In the face of seemingly impossible odds, Nachshon became the initiator and stepped into the swirling sea. Buoyed by his courageousness a bystander effect immediately transpired, and the rest of the Israelites followed. And then, through the vessel of Moses\u2019 outstretched arms, God split the sea and the true moment of freedom for the Israelites was realized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nachson ben Aminadav is the archetype of heroic leadership. A relatively unknown participant (at least within the narrative of the Chumash) who is but one among all the actual and potential leaders in the group, who gathers all his courage and faith and moves the dial of progress for a whole nation. His very action demonstrated that the power of miracles lies in our own agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take the risk, make the first move, and miracles will happen.<\/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":"Take The Leap!","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Exodus 14:15 - \u201cThen the LORD said to Moses, 'Why do you cry out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.'\u201d","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52708,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52707\/revisions\/52708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}