{"id":53347,"date":"2019-04-07T23:32:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T20:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=53347"},"modified":"2022-10-30T16:59:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:59:19","slug":"circumcision-yes-manna-not-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/circumcision-yes-manna-not-any-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumcision, Yes; Manna, Not Any More"},"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":[549,637,616],"acf":{"old_id":"53347","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"192","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The Israelites had to cut themselves\u2026 off from their previous lives","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter features two immediate consequences of the Israelites\u2019 entry into their own land. The first is the renewal of circumcision, and the other is the cessation of the manna. Both, while manifested physically, are essentially spiritual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the surface, Joshua\u2019s claim that the Israelites experienced mass circumcision prior to their departure from Egypt (5:5) appears to be baseless since no explicit reference is made to it in the Book of Exodus. From the perspective of traditional exegesis, however, it is implicit in what the Sages regarded as a process&#8211;akin to conversion&#8211;that also included immersion. As reported by Rambam (Maimonides):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel entered into the covenant by way of three rites: circumcision, immersion, and sacrifice. Circumcision took place in Egypt\u2026 Immersion took place in the wilderness before the revelation of the Torah\u2026 [as did the sacrifices]. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hilkhot Issurei Bi\u2019ah <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13:1-3)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The manna, to recall, began to fall shortly after the crossing of the Red Sea and remained a fixture of the Israelites\u2019 diet throughout their sojourn in the wilderness. To cite Exodus 16:35: \u201cThe Children of Israel ate the manna for forty years, until they reached settled country; they ate manna until they came to the edge of the Land of Canaan.\u201d Now, almost immediately upon crossing the Jordan, they had arrived at that \u201cedge\u201d and the manna ceased to fall and was replaced by \u201cthe local produce\u201d (5:12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout their divinely guided trek through the wilderness, the pillars of cloud and flame were adequate reminders of their elevated religious state. 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