{"id":67282,"date":"2019-12-18T22:18:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=67282"},"modified":"2023-07-16T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T06:52:44","slug":"god-is-for-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/god-is-for-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is For Lovers"},"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":[418,381,608],"acf":{"old_id":"67282","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":67068,"related_cahpter":"375","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Passionate, covenantal love will help them endure\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abraham loves God. He loves God with an intensity and passion greater than perhaps anyone before or after him, and it is for this reason God describes him as (Isaiah 41:8) \u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avraham Ohavi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Abraham the one who loves me.\u2019 Love is a powerful force and passionate love even more so. The rabbis accentuate this point (Bereshit Rabbah 55:8) when they assert <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ahavah mekalkelet et hashura<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, love makes one do crazy things. Taking on wild risks and making great sacrifices is a defining characteristic of love, and Abraham\u2019s love for God is no different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the age of seventy five, he and Sarah abandon everything and everyone they know because God asks them to journey to a land that He will show them. Not only do they travel, but Abraham\u2019s love for God does not allow him to rest. On his way to the Promised Land, he goes from place to place to share his love with others and bring them closer to God as well. God even described Avraham\u2019s relationship to him in terms of movement when he tells him, (17:1) \u201cWalk before me and be perfect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The passionate and perhaps even irrational love that propelled Abraham across the world stands at the foundation of the covenant between God and the Jewish people, for as God states (Jeremiah 2:2):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have remembered in your favor the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abraham\u2019s love for God is ultimately passed on to his descendants, and Isaiah intimates that after seventy years of exile in Babylonia, the Jewish people will feel it animate their lives once again. At the end of the previous chapter (40:30-31), Isaiah promises the following: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Youths may grow faint and weary, And young men stumble and fall; They who wait upon God shall renew their strength, as eagles grow new plumes; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not become faint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as the eagle sheds his feathers only to grow them again, so too shall the energy of the Jewish people be renewed. Like their forefather, Abraham, the Jews of Babylonia will also journey to the Land of Israel. They will come from afar travelling great distances, yet they will not become tired. 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