{"id":54117,"date":"2019-04-20T23:24:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T20:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=54117"},"modified":"2022-11-12T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T21:33:10","slug":"resilience-refuge-restraint-and-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/resilience-refuge-restraint-and-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Resilience, Refuge, Restraint And 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":[809,409,808],"acf":{"old_id":"54117","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"201","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Joshua\u2019s old buddy Caleb is a model of vigor and optimism","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of Joshua\u2019s allotment of the land among the tribes of Israel, he begins by fulfilling an old debt. Alone of all the spies who had investigated the possibilities of settling in the Land of Israel, only Joshua and Caleb had chosen a positive perspective, one that affirmed that the children of Israel would find a suitable resting place there. Caleb steps forward, first even among the Tribe of Judah, to claim his right to a home. \u00a0\u201cOn that day, Moses promised [Caleb] on oath, \u2018The land on which your foot trod shall be a portion for you and your descendants forever\u2019 (Joshua 14:9).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caleb recounts that at the time of the initial reconnaissance into Israel, he was a strapping man of 40 years old. Now, many years later, he is an elder sage of 85 years. Yet, he claims, he has been uniquely blessed: \u201c\u2026here I am today, 85 years old. I am still as strong today as on the day that Moses sent me; my strength is the same now as it was then (Joshua 14:11).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linking his extraordinary resilience to his loyalty to an expansive vision of hope almost a half century earlier, Caleb can been understood as connecting his vitality to his optimism. Indeed, the commentary Be\u2019er Moshe interprets this as a claim about his ability to fight his <em>yetzer ha-ra<\/em>, his evil inclination. At every age, a person\u2019s greatest battle is internal, a struggle to subdue their corrosive lusts or destructive urges, and to sublimate them for a greater good. In this reading, Caleb recognizes that his inner strength is the key to his rising to make the right choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consequences flow from that inner resilience. He is given the city of Hebron, which becomes one of the Levitical cities of refuge in a later stage of Jewish history. Woven into the essence of the place is the idea of restraining lust for power and control, choosing instead the path of hope, restraint, and morality. For that reason, Hebron is honored to become a place where people falsely accused can flee and expect safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the gift of Hebron, we are told that \u201cthe land had rest from war (Joshua 14:15).\u201d Redemption, it seems, flows from inner restraint, resilience across the years, and creating a refuge from the swampland of human avarice, power, and greed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In singling out Caleb, the Book of Joshua invites us to internalize a better way.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":56227,"id":56227,"title":"jud16-strength","filename":"jud16-strength.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-true-source-of-strength\/jud16-strength\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jud16-strength","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":56226,"date":"2019-05-26 21:40:07","modified":"2023-12-29 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