{"id":66511,"date":"2019-12-04T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=66511"},"modified":"2023-06-28T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:46:41","slug":"egypt-been-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/egypt-been-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Been There\u2026"},"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":[469,597],"acf":{"old_id":"66511","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":64700,"related_cahpter":"365","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"And we shouldn\u2019t consider going back","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter continues from the previous one, discouraging the people from pursuing help from Egypt. It is unique in how one key word in this chapter is designed to motivate the people to realize the error of their ways.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The chapter begins by saying that the people should turn to God for help and not to Egypt, for they are weak and nothing, and only God is able to support his people.\u00a0 God is compared to a lion in a parable (31:4) who will not be stopped until his task has been completed, in this case, protecting the Jewish people: \u201cLike birds, so will the Lord protect Jerusalem, shield and save, protect and flee (31:5).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the Hebrew words for salvation used in that verse are ones typically used for salvation, but the third \u201c<em>Paso\u2019ach<\/em>\u201d stands out, as the word resembles the name of the very holiday that recalls the Exodus from Egypt, itself, Pesach. Indeed, Rashi uses our verse to question that perhaps the word and name for the holiday Pesach should not be translated as \u201cPassover\u201d but should be instead translated as \u201cProtection\u201d on the basis of the words clear meaning in our verse. (See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/365\/post\/66514\">David Curwin&#8217;s post<\/a> on this issue).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prophet essentially tells the people that in their turning to Egypt for protection, they have forgotten the initial interaction between the Jewish people and Egypt. In that initial moment the nation did not rely on Egypt for succor or support but instead relied on the Almighty as an avenue for salvation, Pesach.\u00a0 And in this moment as well, the Egyptians would never come to free the captive Jews from the Assyrians, instead it would again be the Almighty who would save them, <em>paso\u2019ach<\/em>. When the people will finally realize that, they would stay strong in the difficult time, and turn to God to help save them, before it would be too late.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image:\u00a0Edward Poynter, &#8220;Israel in Egypt,&#8221; c. 1867 \/ wikimedia<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":50724,"id":50724,"title":"dt16-Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt","filename":"dt16-Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt16-Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-case-for-reparations\/dt16-edward_poynter_-_israel_in_egypt\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt16-edward_poynter_-_israel_in_egypt","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":50715,"date":"2019-03-04 19:20:39","modified":"2023-01-02 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