{"id":54898,"date":"2019-05-05T12:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T09:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=54898"},"modified":"2022-11-28T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:22:53","slug":"a-guide-to-the-book-of-judges-the-task-is-unending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-guide-to-the-book-of-judges-the-task-is-unending\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to the Book of Judges: The Task is Unending"},"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":[402],"acf":{"old_id":"54898","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"212","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"This extraordinary book teaches that there is no single great leader who can clean things up forever","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Book of Judges, following immediately after the Book of Joshua, leaves no doubt about its predicament. \u201cAfter the death of Joshua,\u201d the Book opens. When we closed the previous Book, the conquest seemed complete. The tribes were occupying their rightful places, the enemy had been vanquished, Joshua had retired as a lauded and successful warrior, and died peacefully in his own bed. It is a bit of a rude awakening that the new book opens with unraveling and with crisis. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tribes of Israel, apparently, have not yet completed their assignment. Amorites, Canaanites and others still hold much of the land, and the Israelites are soon to be taken to task for not having taken the land and established peace. A new cycle emerges: oppressed by their enemies, the Israelites call out in fear and suffering. A new chieftain (or judge) emerges from one tribe or another, the people come together in confederation to repulse the new enemies, and then everyone goes home. Eventually, old habits revive and Israelites fall away from a life of covenant, only to strengthen their enemies for another round. Enemies, Judges, conflict and elusive peace: these are the recurrent cycles of the Book of Judges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what are we to learn from all the Book of Judges?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That molding a people around a high standard isn\u2019t something that happens once and for all. The Children of Israel, like all people, need regular schooling in decency, law, and justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the fact that they will backslide doesn\u2019t mean we have to abandon hope. They also can be inspired to come together, to try again, to turn the tide on their erroneous ways and their evil choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The power of repentance and renewal offer an antidote to habit, indifference, and the temptation to be like everyone else, to just let it slide. We can, like our ancestors in this remarkable book, rally around mindfulness and intentionality. We can choose who we are going to become, and that can have consequences for how our lives will play out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, this extraordinary book teaches that there is no single great leader who can clean things up forever. Instead, we can look to new generations of leaders who will meet the challenges of their day, and then get out of the way so that a succeeding generation of leaders can do so in turn. 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