{"id":86732,"date":"2021-01-17T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=86732"},"modified":"2021-01-17T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:51:06","slug":"abasement-of-humankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/abasement-of-humankind\/","title":{"rendered":"Abasement Of Humankind"},"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":"86732","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"657","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Returning to dust\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">90:3 \u201cYou bring man back to the dust and say, \u201cTurn back, humankind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word represented as \u201cdust,\u201d <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">daka<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is associated with a root that indicates lowness, or crushing down, but is reasonably understood here as a poetic substitute for \u201cdust\u201d (ordinarily, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018afar<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). God\u2019s abasement of man, followed in the next verset by His exhortation to humankind to turn back, or repent, suggests that this psalm is a collective penitential supplication, perhaps recited at a moment when the community has been overtaken by disaster (\u201cbring man back to the dust\u201d). But the nature of the disaster is not specified, and there is no mention either of Israel or the Temple. Thus the supplication becomes the vehicle for a Wisdom-style meditation on the transience of human life, cast in the universal terms characteristic of Wisdom literature. There is, in fact, a certain kinship between this poem and passages in both Job and Qohelet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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