{"id":69820,"date":"2020-02-08T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=69820"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:22:19","slug":"a-covenant-of-fate-or-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-covenant-of-fate-or-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"A Covenant Of Fate, Or Of Faith?\u00a0"},"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":[395,375,468],"acf":{"old_id":"69820","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"411","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A recurring invitation for a relationship\u00a0\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the opening of Jeremiah chapter 11, God is again urging the people to \u201clisten to the words of this covenant\u201d so that \u201cyou will be My people and I will be your God (11:3-4).\u201d This proposal for a reciprocal relationship with God is reiterated over and over again to the Jewish people, in almost identical language throughout the Tanach, including: when God first speaks to Abraham in Genesis 17:7; again in Exodus 6:7 when God tells Moses how to introduce Him to the Jewish people; tehn in Leviticus 26:12 in the introduction to the \u201c<em>Tochechah<\/em>\u201d (admonitions to the Jewish people); multiple times in the book of Jeremiah (here and in 30:22 and 32:38) and again multiple times in the book of Ezekiel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God repeatedly invites and empowers us to have a relationship with Him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks about the difference between a contract and a covenant. A contract is a zero-sum game wherein something is being exchanged, someone ends up with all of one thing and the other with all of something else: money for goods; goods for power. It may be mutually beneficial but that\u2019s not the purpose of entering into a contract. The purpose is to further one\u2019s own interest. A contract is a transaction. A covenant, on the other hand, is a relationship in which individuals or parties \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">respecting the dignity and integrity of the other, come together in a bond of love and trust, to share their interests, sometimes even to share their lives, by pledging their faithfulness to one another, to do together what neither can achieve alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Sacks distinguishes two kinds of covenants. Covenants of fate arise from otherwise disparate people or communities facing a common threat. We see that play out in times of catastrophe, like in natural disasters that unify otherwise unconnected individuals and groups for a common purpose. The other type of covenant, what Rabbi Sacks calls a covenant of faith, is made between people who share a common dream, aspirations and ideals, rather than a common enemy. \u201cThey come together to create something new. They are defined not by what happens to them but by what they commit themselves to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is the covenant that God repeatedly invites us to be party to. \u201cBe My people and I your God\u201d is our covenant to create, in partnership with God, the people we are meant to be in the land in which we are intended to dwell.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":69821,"id":69821,"title":"jer11-covenant","filename":"jer11-covenant.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer11-covenant.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-covenant-of-fate-or-of-faith\/jer11-covenant\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer11-covenant","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":69820,"date":"2020-02-08 07:20:26","modified":"2022-10-15 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