{"id":77357,"date":"2020-07-13T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T14:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=77357"},"modified":"2020-07-13T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T14:05:32","slug":"seek-me-and-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/seek-me-and-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Seek Me And Live!"},"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":"77357","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":76938,"related_cahpter":"523","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Because God is hiding - it becomes our duty to seek\r\n\r\n","content":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a beautiful story about Rebbe Barukh, a famous Rebbe who lived in Ukraine in the 1700s, and his grandson Yechiel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One day Yechiel came running into his grandfather\u2019s room crying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYechiel, Yechiel, why are you crying?\u201d asked Rebbe Barukh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His sobbing grandson explained, \u201cI was playing hide and seek with my friend. But my friend stopped seeking and left me alone.\u201d Rebbe Barukh comforted Yechiel, and with tears welling up in his own eyes, he whispered softly to his grandson, \u201cYechiel, God is also crying. God has also been hiding and no one is seeking God&#8221; (Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim I).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeking God is an important idea in Hasidic thought. Amos tells us in today\u2019s chapter \u201cFor so said the Lord to the house of Israel; Seek Me and live\u201d (verse 6). The moments in life where we don\u2019t feel alive, where we feel depressed, dark, stuck in routine, the solution is simple&#8212; seek God and live. Become alive again. God is there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although God is \u201chiding\u201d (and the idea of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hester panim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cthe hiding of the divine face,\u201d is an idea in and of itself to be explored in Hasidic thought) He can be easily found by those who want to seek. And when they seek, they will find. And when they find, they will come alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are different venues available for seeking. Every commandment or fulfillment of one can be a form of seeking:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prayer can be seeking God through speech.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning Torah can be seeking God through the mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Giving charity can be seeking God through seeing another in His image.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We find ourselves now in the period known as \u201cthe 3 weeks,\u201d a time period between the fasts of 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av. It is traditionally a time of repentance and reflection. And seeking. \u201cSeek the LORD while He can be found, Call to Him while He is near\u201d (Isaiah 55:6). 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