{"id":71156,"date":"2020-03-03T18:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=71156"},"modified":"2020-03-03T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:04:12","slug":"the-path-from-exile-to-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-path-from-exile-to-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"The Path From Exile To Redemption"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"71156","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"429","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A journey of self-discovery\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah Chapter 29 shows us a letter, written by the prophet to the Jewish people in exile in Babylonia. One would think such a missive would be about giving the people hope: hope that their exile would soon end, that they would overcome their captors, that they would survive and soon return to freedom in their own land. But in fact, the message is quite different. \u201cBuild houses, plant gardens, have families\u201d (29:5-6), says Jeremiah. And most surprisingly he tells them to pray for the city in which they have been exiled \u201cfor through its peace you will have peace (29:7).\u201d We\u2019re not expected to just survive exile, we\u2019re expected to flourish, to some degree even be thankful for it, and to recognize that by helping to bring peace to other nations we bring peace to our own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s no argument that this, or any exile, is accidental. It\u2019s all part of God\u2019s master plan. In fact, God ordained that the Jewish people would experience exile even before there was a Jewish nation. Early in the book of Genesis God <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">informed Abraham that his descendants would be strangers in a land that is not theirs.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, when God outright ordered the Jewish people to \u201cput your necks into the yoke of the king of Babylonia and serve him and his people, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so that you may live (27:12)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was not condemning them to an untimely end but providing them with the opportunity they didn\u2019t know they needed, to break out of their physical environment and progress spiritually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Rabbi Hershel Reichman (Rosh Yeshiva of RIETS), \u201cthe word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">galut <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(\u05d2\u05dc\u05d5\u05ea) &#8211; exile is related to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">l\u2019galot <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(\u05dc\u05d2\u05dc\u05d5\u05ea) \u2013 reveal, meaning that exile reveals and brings out our strength, and compels us to rise above our environment to discover our spiritual strengths.\u201d This is not to say that we should ever wish for exile, not those that we have endured nor the one we are currently enduring. 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