{"id":84816,"date":"2020-12-13T17:17:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=84816"},"modified":"2020-12-13T17:17:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T15:17:53","slug":"rain-and-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/rain-and-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain And Grain"},"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":"84816","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38047,"related_cahpter":"632","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Unappreciated miracles that are critical for our sustenance and very existence\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The third section of Psalm 65 focuses God\u2019s gift of rain to the world, and the agricultural bounty that rain makes possible. Later Jewish tradition emphasizes the life-giving importance of rain by including praise to God for causing rain to fall in the blessing of the Amida prayer that recounts the many powers with which God sustains the world. On weekdays, an additional, seasonal request for rain is inserted in the petition for a livelihood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although sometimes tenuous for city\/suburban-dwelling supermarket-shoppers, these connections were so clear to the rabbis of the Talmud that the Mishna\u2019s unchallenged statement, \u201cOne mentions the God\u2019s might in giving the rains in the blessing about the revival of the dead, and the request for rain in the petition for prosperous years\u201d (5:2) receives only the barest of explanation in the Gemara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A midrash reports Rabbi Judah bar Ezekiel\u2019s personal prayer of praise for rain: \u201cMay the name of the One Who Spoke and the world came into being be glorified, extolled and blessed, for appointing tens of thousands of angels for each drop that falls\u201d (Deuteronomy Rabbah 7:6). Hyperbole, no doubt but nonetheless a moving statement of water\u2019s great value, especially when utilized properly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Judah\u2019s words were later quoted by philosopher Emmanuel Levinas: \u201cTo be able to eat and drink is a possibility as extraordinary, as miraculous, as the crossing of the Red Sea. We do not recognize the miracle this represents because we live in a Europe which, for the moment, has plenty of everything, and not in a Third World country, and because our memory is short&#8230;. To return to a stage of indigence in Europe, despite all the progress of civilization, is a most natural possibility for us, as the war years and the concentration camps have shown. In fact, the route which takes bread from the earth in which it grows to the mouth which eats it is one of the most perilous. It is to cross the Red Sea. An old Midrash, conceived in this spirit, teaches: \u2018Each drop of the rain which is to water your furrows is led by 10,000 angels so that it may reach its destination.\u2019\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nine Talmudic Readings<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, translated from French by Annette Aronowicz).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Covid-19 pandemic has stirred many people\u2019s short memory, reminding us that affluence, food security and even life are more fragile than we usually care to contemplate. Psalm 65 further highlights that clean water is a great gift, one that is critically important for survival and therefore worthy of our best efforts to protect.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":84817,"id":84817,"title":"ps65-rain grain","filename":"ps65-rain-grain.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps65-rain-grain.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/rain-and-grain\/ps65-rain-grain\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ps65-rain-grain","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":84816,"date":"2020-12-13 15:17:40","modified":"2020-12-13 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