{"id":76705,"date":"2020-06-30T16:10:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=76705"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:10:57","slug":"ethical-giants-the-hebrew-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/ethical-giants-the-hebrew-prophets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Giants &#8211; The Hebrew Prophets"},"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":"76705","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38102,"related_cahpter":"2015","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"They did not believe that conscience is a still, small voice: it thunders or it does not speak at all","content":"<p>\u201cWhen silence threatens to take the power of decision out of our hands \u2026 one looks into history for the courage to speak even in an unpopular cause. Looming as ethical giants are those extraordinary of men, the Hebrew prophets.<\/p>\n<p>They did not believe that conscience is a still, small voice. They believed that conscience thunders or it does not speak at all. They were articulate, passionate, and fearless, attacking injustice and corruption whether the guilty be kings or their own unrepentant people. Without physical protection, scornful of risks evoked by their unpopular messages, they went among the people with no shield other than truth.<\/p>\n<p>Today we particularly need the Hebrew prophets because they taught that to love God was to love justice; that each human being has an inescapable obligation to denounce evil where he sees it and to defy a ruler who commands him to break the covenant. The Hebrew prophets are needed today because decent people must be imbued with the courage to speak the truth, to realize that silence may temporarily preserve status or security but to live with a lie is a gross affront to God.<\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew prophets are needed today because we need their flaming courage; we need them because the thunder of their fearless voices is the only sound stronger than the blasts of bombs and clamor of war hysteria\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-From Rev. 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