{"id":83686,"date":"2020-11-20T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=83686"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:52:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:52:05","slug":"points-to-ponder-psalm-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/points-to-ponder-psalm-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Points to Ponder &#8211; Psalm 49"},"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":"83686","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38102,"related_cahpter":"616","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>A wisdom poem<\/em>. The words of wisdom in the psalm are spoken to an audience, accompanied by music, as it says in verse 5: \u201cI will turn my attention to a theme, set forth my lesson to the music of a lyre.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Wealth and life<\/em>. Do the rich actually believe that their wealth will protect them from death? Or is the confrontation with death &#8211; of the wealthy, and the rest of us &#8211; designed to remind us that the rich have no advantage over the poor, and that wealth does not guarantee happiness? What do you think?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Life after death?<\/em> The idea of life in the world to come and the perseverance of the soul is familiar to us from post-biblical texts. Whoever is looking for hints along those lines in the Tanach ends up with verse such as 49:16 &#8211; \u201cBut God will redeem my life from the clutches of Sheol, for He will take me.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Ecclesiastes teaser.<\/em> In another 193 chapters we will reach Ecclesiastes and encounter there the insight that death does not distinguish between the wise person and the fool, the poor and the rich, and not even between human and animal (see Eccles. Ch 2). 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