{"id":75669,"date":"2020-06-08T11:38:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=75669"},"modified":"2020-06-08T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:38:17","slug":"the-door-to-spiritual-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-door-to-spiritual-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Door To Spiritual Awareness"},"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":"75669","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"498","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Don\u2019t leave the same way you entered","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the description of technical plans for building the third Temple, Ezekiel continues his prophecy with technical requirements for using the Temple. This building is meant to be far more than a mere structure in which to execute service of God \u2013 we\u2019d gone that route already, and it failed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commandment to make three annual pilgrimages to the Temple \u2013 on Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot, initially given in Deuteronomy 16, is referenced again in Ezekiel 46:9, this time with the following additional instruction:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen the people come before God, whoever enters by the north gate shall leave by the south, and whoever enters by the south gate shall leave by the north. They shall not go back through the gate by which they came in but shall go out by the opposite gate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historically, the pilgrimage festivals, by ensuring a regularly scheduled time to stop all regular activity and come together in the service of God, had both spiritual and pragmatic benefits. It was a thrice-yearly major communal event that stimulated a consistent economic cycle for Jerusalem. The predictable national gathering to collectively reaffirm our covenant with God brought significant travel and agricultural industry that served to underpin the Jerusalem economy. But of course, the economic spinoff was secondary to the spiritual purpose.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our sages have a few explanations for the odd direction to enter and exit the Temple on opposite sides. Some of our sages describe this behavior as emphasizing one\u2019s love for the Temple and Temple service. By walking the full breadth of the Temple from north to south or vice-versa, one delays their departure for as long as possible. The Talmud (Berachot 62B) extends this practice to anyone entering a synagogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps there\u2019s another message in this exercise of physically entering the temple, or our synagogues one way and leaving another. The doors we go through matter. We kiss our mezuzahs to elevate and remember the holiness of the places we enter. So too we need to ensure that when we engage in prayer, be it in the Holy Temple or in our synagogues today, we leave differently than we arrived. Prayer is meant to change us. It\u2019s not meant to be a rote practice that we walk into, dispense with, and \u201cgo back by the gate through which (we) came.\u201d Just as we leave through a different door, we should merit to leave with a different demeanor \u2013 an elevated spirituality and sense of community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":51429,"id":51429,"title":"dt23-open-door","filename":"dt23-open-door-1.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt23-open-door-1.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/open-orthodoxy-thats-an-order\/dt23-open-door\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt23-open-door","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":51428,"date":"2019-03-17 15:26:31","modified":"2022-06-02 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