{"id":67818,"date":"2019-12-29T09:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T07:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=67818"},"modified":"2023-07-23T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T09:39:17","slug":"why-dont-the-jews-return-right-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/why-dont-the-jews-return-right-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t The Jews Return Right Away?"},"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":[948,515,647,573,463],"acf":{"old_id":"67818","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"382","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Was it PTSD, Stockholm syndrome - or something else?\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the downfall of the Babylonians in 3392, Cyrus, the conquering Persian king, announced that the Jews could return to their homeland and rebuild their holy Temple. But the Jews hesitated, and in that moment of hesitation the invitation to return was revoked and the Jews found themselves under the rule of Achashverosh and Haman of Purim infamy. It was another 18 years, after the miracle of Purim (3407), that the Jews actually returned en masse to rebuild the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God rebukes the Jews for not jumping at the chance to leave Babylonia at their first chance, as prophesied by Isaiah in 48:20: \u201cLeave Babylonia, flee from Chaldea, with the sound of jubilation.\u201d In other words, \u201cwhen the time comes to leave, Cyrus calls you to return, flee as fast as you can (Rav Schwab).\u201d What caused their failure to mobilize? One could imagine that they suffered from some degree of what we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder, resulting in collective feelings of distrust, hopelessness or estrangement. Or perhaps after their lengthy exile, even though, or perhaps because of the fact that in some respects they flourished, there were some twinges of Stockholm syndrome in which the Jews had developed a level of alliance with their captors. Or perhaps they had just lost their ability for self-direction and couldn\u2019t move forward to a new life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of those could be possibilities, but in the very first verse of this chapter we learn that the root cause was far more disturbing, when God admonishes the Jews with:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen to this, O House of Jacob, who bear the name Israel and have issued from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel \u2014 <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">though not in truth and sincerity<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though they may seem connected to God and in fact may truly want to be, they\u2019re not walking the talk. \u201c<em>Lo b\u2019emet<\/em> \u201c\u2013 not in truth, and \u201c<em>lo b\u2019tzedakah<\/em>\u201d \u2013 not in righteousness.\u00a0 As Ibn Ezra comments, \u201cThey utter with their lips that they are God\u2019s people, but do not think so in their hearts nor show it in their deeds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end it wasn\u2019t their hesitation that made them unworthy of returning to their homeland with Cyrus\u2019 invitation, it was their integral unreadiness. 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