{"id":52947,"date":"2019-04-03T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=52947"},"modified":"2022-10-27T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T06:24:52","slug":"the-waters-of-the-jordan-then-now-and-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-waters-of-the-jordan-then-now-and-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waters Of The Jordan \u2013 Then, Now And In The Future"},"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":[363,471,360,435],"acf":{"old_id":"52947","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"190","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Maybe the storied river could use another miracle today?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Chapter tells of the crossing of the Jordan River into the Promised Land. This momentous event is depicted in miraculous terms:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the people set out from their encampment to cross the Jordan, the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant were at the head of the people \u2026 as soon as the bearers of the Ark reached the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the Ark dipped into the water at its edge, the waters coming down from upstream piled up in a single heap a great way off \u2026 So, the people crossed near Jericho. The priests who bore the Ark of the Lord\u2019s Covenant stood on dry land exactly in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over on dry land, until the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan\u201d (3:14-17, compare Ex. 14:29). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rabbinic sages elaborated on this wondrous episode by adding miracle upon miracle: When Joshua said to people crossing the Jordan, \u201cCome closer and listen to the words of the Lord your God. By this you shall know that a living God is among you\u201d (Joshua 3:9), miraculously all the Israelite myriads were able to assemble together in the small space between the staves by which the priests carried the Ark of the Covenant (Genesis Rabbah 5:7).This was a sign that in the future, in the Temple in Jerusalem, there would miraculously be ample room for all the thousands of assembled people to stand and even prostrate themselves (Mishnah Avot 5:5 and parallels). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Talmudic tradition (Sotah 34a) interprets the biblical description of the waters of the Jordan \u201cpiled up in a single heap a great way\u201d to mean that the waters were heaped up to a height of more than three hundred miles! This cast terror in the hearts of the kings of the East and the West, as it says: \u201cWhen all the kings of the Amorites on the western side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites near the Sea, heard how the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the sake of the Israelites until they crossed over, they lost heart, and no spirit was left in them because of the Israelites\u201d (Joshua 5:1). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regrettably, the waters of the Jordan are again being dried up, much to the dismay of many in Israel and its neighbors. Ninety-six percent of the Jordan\u2019s once impressive flow has been diverted for domestic and agricultural use. In places, the Jordan sometimes may seem a mere polluted trickle compared to what it was from biblical times until only fifty years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us hope that Ezekiel\u2019s vision (47:7-12) will yet be realized: \u201cI saw trees in great profusion \u2026 where the river flows everything will live \u2026 fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river \u2026 because its waters go forth from the Temple.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colored postcard of the Jordan River, by Karimeh Abbud, circa 1925 \/ 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