{"id":89462,"date":"2021-02-27T20:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=89462"},"modified":"2021-02-27T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T18:22:33","slug":"its-all-about-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/its-all-about-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All About Choice!"},"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":"89462","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":56964,"related_cahpter":"686","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u05d3\u05bc\u05b6\u05e8\u05b6\u05da\u05b0\u05be\u05d0\u05b1\u05de\u05d5\u05bc\u05e0\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d1\u05b8\u05d7\u05b8\u05e8\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05de\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05e4\u05bc\u05b8\u05d8\u05b6\u05d9\u05da\u05b8 \u05e9\u05c1\u05b4\u05d5\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9\u05c3<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set Your rules before me.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ps. 119:30 encapsulates much of my understanding about faith. Faith does not just happen to you (to me, at least), you do not gain it through philosophical contemplation, intellectual deliberation, scientific proof or a miraculous revelation either. It is something that you actively choose. As the poet proclaims \u201cI have chosen the path of faith.\u201d The choice of faith may be in line with life experiences or in spite of them, but is nevertheless a conscious one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The choice to be faithful has concrete ramifications \u2013 it requires to live a life that is conscious to this faith: \u201cI have set Your rules before me.\u201d Our choices \u2013 big and small \u2013 are informed by it. I do not believe that it requires practicing blind obedience but it entails a profound, enduring and constant commitment.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"\u05d3","main_caption":"It's All About Choice!","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"30. I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set Your rules before me","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89463,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89462\/revisions\/89463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}