{"id":56945,"date":"2019-06-05T18:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=56945"},"modified":"2022-12-27T22:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T20:23:40","slug":"personal-love-and-loyalties-versus-a-higher-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/personal-love-and-loyalties-versus-a-higher-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Love And Loyalties Versus A Higher Calling"},"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":[839,707,463],"acf":{"old_id":"56945","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34245,"related_cahpter":"235","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A foreshadowing of a great tragedy","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From its first appearance on human lips in the Hebrew Bible, the word \u201chineni\u201d meant something more than \u201chere I am\u201d. Abraham said it three times when God ordered him to sacrifice his son \u2013 to God, to Isaac himself, and to the angel. Both Jacob and Esau said it to their father when he prepared to pass on Abraham\u2019s blessing. Jacob said it later to God in a moment of revelation, and Joseph said it to Jacob himself when the latter sent him to look for his brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In all these cases, the word expressed the speaker\u2019s complete presence in a moment of great importance, and this weight of dedication and solemnity carries through into Samuel\u2019s first conversation with God. Samuel, however, doesn\u2019t offer his \u201chineni\u201d to God. Mistaking God\u2019s call for summons from the man who raised him, Samuel offers his \u201chineni\u201d not once, but three times, to Eli instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samuel\u2019s \u201chineni\u201d foreshadows the great tragedy of his life, and the personal cost he will have to pay for his calling. For the man to whom Samuel says \u201chineni\u201d is the very man whose horrible fate God is about to reveal. It is to this man, who raised Samuel and who guides him through this first prophetic experience, that Samuel will have to bring such dreadful news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samuel, it should be noted, does not offer God his \u201dhineni\u201d. He submits to Him instead with the respectful, yet somehow less potent, \u201cSpeak, for Your servant is listening.\u201d These words are apt: Samuel will indeed go on serving God all his life. But his calling does not diminish his care for Eli. He lies awake all night, afraid of sharing the vision with the man who called him \u201cson\u201d. And come morning, when Eli summons him, Samuel offers him, once again, his unconditional \u201chineni\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samuel\u2019s calling will clash with his personal loyalties again years later, when God will instruct him to bring about king Saul\u2019s fall. Once again, Samuel will serve God despite his personal feelings, and carry out God\u2019s mission after yet another sleepless night. He will mourn Saul\u2019s fate until his own dying day, but even death won\u2019t release him from the pain of dual loyalties; when Saul will ask the witch of Endor to summon Samuel\u2019s spirit, Samuel will be forced to speak God\u2019s hurtful truths again. 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