{"id":55024,"date":"2019-05-06T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=55024"},"modified":"2022-11-29T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:15:41","slug":"the-best-way-to-learn-from-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-best-way-to-learn-from-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way To Learn From Experience"},"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":[578,405,849],"acf":{"old_id":"55024","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"213","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Three secrets to keeping old memories alive","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s an irony of human, and Jewish, life. It is a unique attribute of human beings that we have the capacity to learn from people we have never personally encountered. The miracle of culture, words, art, and artifacts, is that our consciousness is able to absorb the experiences and perspectives of people who lived and died prior to our being born, to people who lived (or live) in places we have never visited. I recall travelling to Uganda and sailing up the Nile River and being surprised that a place I had never previously visited could still be familiar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This capacity, to absorb the insights, experiences, or visions of unknown lands and people, is an attribute unique to humans. Other mammals have the capacity to learn from their encounters with others, even to modify their behavior based on the insistence of others, but only if there is a direct personal encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it may be true that it is a special gift of people to be able to transmit memories we never experienced, to see with the eyes of others, to internalize perspectives of people very dissimilar to ourselves, it is also true that the intensity of our memories fade the further they recede from actual, recent experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so we find in the Bible as well. The Children of Israel continue to serve God even after the death of Joshua, and even during the lifetimes of the elders who came after. But two generations later, even though they were still telling the old stories and living in the same land, the memories had already started to fade, \u201cAnother generation arose after them, which had not experienced the LORD or the deeds that God had wrought for Israel. And the Israelites did what was offensive to the LORD (Joshua 2:10,11).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do we counteract this all too natural propensity to forget, to let the passage of time or distance dull our awareness of insights we had already harvested?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no perfect antidote, but Judaism puts its energy into three primary activities: the telling of stories, the ritual enactment of learning opportunities, and extensive time spent in community. These occasions help refresh the ancient tellings, train our behavior through sacred deeds, and keep us in the company of those who are also wrestling to retain our shared memories across the years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We listen and tell. We refrain and we do. We assemble and we share. 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