{"id":77040,"date":"2020-07-07T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=77040"},"modified":"2020-07-07T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:50:17","slug":"amos-carrying-the-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/amos-carrying-the-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Amos: Carrying The Burden"},"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":"77040","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":76938,"related_cahpter":"519","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A leader who was not to the manor born\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we are introduced to Amos the prophet, the 3rd of our \u201cminor\u201d prophets, it\u2019s interesting to note how his name (as if often the case with prophets) reflects his role. The name Amos means \u201ca load\u201d or \u201cto carry a load\u201d as if the prophet\u2019s role in carrying the repentance of the Jewish people on his back is tied up in his very essence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amos is the only one of our minor prophets whose job is specified in their introduction. He is a herdsman, a simple man and not a prophet by trade. Yet, his name means to carry the load. Even if he was a regular working man, he was tasked with the role of carrying the people towards repentance. Taking upon the \u201cload\u201d of responsibility to care for others, to look out for the spiritual well being of our fellow Jews is not a role that only goes to the leaders. It can go to the simple everyday man: the doctor, the lawyer, the herdsman. All those can carry the burden of the Jewish people on their backs too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This idea is essential to the teachings of Chassidut, spread by the movement\u2019s founder Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov. Prophecy, Torah, conversations with God are things that are not exclusively accessible to the scholarly, spiritual elite. \u201cThe wholesome simplicity of the simple Jew touches on the utterly simple essence of God\u201d in the writings of the Baal Shem Tov. This idea is expressed by the notion of a \u201c<em>pintele yid<\/em>\u201d (the \u201clittle \u2018dot\u2019 of the Jew, the &#8220;quintessential, core Jew\u201d). The Chassidic movement was essentially a response to the ideals of the time of the learned Yeshiva student being the best representative of a \u201cTorah Jew\u201d. Chassidut teaches that every Jew is a Torah Jew and has something to offer the larger collective of our people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Torah often lets us know the simple professions of our greatest leaders. Moses and David were both shepherds before they began their journeys as great leaders. It is not the most powerful, the richest or the strongest who are asked to carry the load of the people on their backs. In fact Amos himself later states in chapter 7 &#8220;I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I am a cattle herder and an inspector of sycamores (verse 14).\u201d He is an everyday man. 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