{"id":70166,"date":"2020-02-13T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T10:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=70166"},"modified":"2023-09-10T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:52:15","slug":"redemption-faces-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/redemption-faces-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Redemption Faces Forward"},"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":[426,593,550,384,444,405],"acf":{"old_id":"70166","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"416","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"We are the ancestors of tomorrow\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many of us, the charms of Judaism invite us to look back. We savor a history as one of the world\u2019s most ancient, continuously practiced religions, delighting in the latest archaeological find affirming our ancestors\u2019 expressions of the faith we still cherish. We delight in Hanukkah lights that are ancient by the standards of today\u2019s worlds, but which seem almost recent compared to the Shabbat lights sitting next to them. We cherish blessings recited by the ancients to their children, which are the same blessings our grandparents heard when they were little, and with which we are privileged to bless our children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRenew our days as of old,\u201d says the Prayerbook. Even our longings for the future are framed as yearnings to restore our past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, in the midst of this unshakeable commitment to continuity and to standing as one with the community of those who have come before us, it is also true that the Prophets of Israel help us to understand that redemption cannot be confused with nostalgia. The future liberation must exceed that of the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAssuredly a time is coming \u2013 declares the Lord \u2013 when it shall no more be said, \u2018As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt,\u2019 but rather, \u2018As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites out of the northland, and out of all the lands to which God had banished them.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah recognizes that God\u2019s greatness cannot only be a receding memory of a glorious past. To enshrine some ancient glory, however wondrous, is to reduce God\u2019s miraculous liberation to a relic, a shrine, a fetish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The God of Israel is no mere album of glorious yesterdays. God\u2019s goodness breaks forth fresh and grand each and every day, and we look forward to a greatness that exceeds any experience attained thus far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, in this middling present, we derive courage and strength from recollections of liberations past. 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