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Elijah loves bombast. He brought about a famine. He has no qualms threatening the king to his face. He orchestrated an epic showdown with the prophets of Baal. But Elijah can\u2019t figure out why things are still going poorly. Jezebel sets her forces out to capture him, and God uses the opportunity to prepare him for a long trek to the Sinai Desert to the mountain where the Torah was given.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Elijah probably felt vindicated. The giving of the Torah was an epic event as well. Thunder, lighting, earthquakes, and fire were all on full display that day. For Elijah, God reprises the sound and light show, but shows him each time that He does not appear in this larger-than-life display of power. In the end, God appears in the soft quiet whisper (\u201cthe still small voice\u201d). God\u2019s message seems clear- following Me and being zealous for My name do not require bombast. Instead, God can really truly be found in small quiet moments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But why did God wait this long to send this message to Elijah?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Looking back at the past few chapters, it seems like God actually tried to relay this message. After Elijah confronts Ahab and promises a famine, God whisks him away to an isolated cave to be fed by nature. In this isolation, God wanted to show Elijah that God can provide in a quiet way. Relying on the world around for basic sustenance forces someone to look towards God and to see God\u2019s hand present in one\u2019s life. Then, God sends Elijah to the poor widow and her son. This is yet another example of trying to see God in the quiet moments. This poor widow lived alone with her son and they only had each other. When her son died she turned to Elijah to save him, which he did. God took compassion on her and her son, and the woman saw that Elijah was a man of God. While the miracle was great, it was also very private. There was no loud bombast here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The fireworks on Mt. Carmel may have excited the people to action that very day, but it clearly did not have the type of everlasting effect that one who acts in a quiet manner can have.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Elijah still does not get it. Before God\u2019s show, Elijah proclaimed that \u201cI am moved by zeal for the LORD, the God of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant\u201d (verse 10). After the show, he repeats the same thing: \u201cI am moved by zeal for the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant.\u201d (verse 14). Elijah could not learn his lesson from two subtle hints from God, and he surely did not when God spelled it out directly. 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One of the most profound anecdotes in the entire Tanakh is found in this chapter. Elijah\u2019s life has been threatened by Jezebel, the queen of Israel, whose prophets had died on Mt. Carmel due to Elijah\u2019s ministrations. He flees into the desert, and declares his readiness to end his life (v. 4.) But God is loathe to grant Elijah\u2019s wish, and gives him one last opportunity to change his mind and continue as the Divine Representative on earth.\u00a0 It would seem that God has been \u201cimpressed\u201d by Elijah\u2019s stellar track-record combatting idolatry and cult-worship.\u00a0 But twice (verses 10, 14) Elijah iterates the integrity of his position, or better, the stubbornness of his personality:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am moved by zeal for the LORD, the God of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and put Your prophets to the sword. I alone am left, and they are out to take my life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He makes this proclamation once, before he is told that God cannot be found in pyrotechnics\u00a0 but rather \u201cin a still, small voice,\u201d (and again, even more frustratingly, after), suggesting that even zealotry has its limitations re creating long-lasting effects in people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what did Elijah mean by his identical statements in vs. 10 and 14?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim states that Elijah repeats himself to show \u201cthat he was unable to leave behind his zealousness for the LORD of hosts, for this aggression was due to his regard for the honor due to God\u2019s name.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Elijah was making clear that he was an unrepentant \u201c<\/span>kanai<\/span><\/i>\u201d (zealot) and that due to his inner makeup, he felt justified and vindicated by what he had done, when after mocking the futile attempts of the prophets of Ba\u2019al to arouse their god (18:27,) he personally slew so many of them (18:40). His personality made him unable to acknowledge that there may have been an alternate, more peaceful route to the Jewish people\u2019s hearts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Elijah did not have a wife like Berurya, who, according to the Talmud (Berachot 10a), when her husband, R. Meir was consumed with hatred towards those who got on his nerves, wished for them to disappear:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There were these hooligans in Rabbi Meir\u2019s neighborhood who caused him a great deal of anguish. Rabbi Meir prayed for God to have mercy on them, that they should die.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Meir\u2019s wife, Berurya, said to him: What is your thinking? As it is written: \u201cLet sins cease from the land\u201d (Psalms 104:35)? \u00a0 But is it written, let sinners cease?\u201d Let sins cease, is written.\u00a0 Moreover, go to the end of the verse, \u201cAnd the wicked will be no more.\u201d If, transgressions shall cease, the wicked will be no more? \u00a0 Rather, pray for God to have mercy on them, that they should repent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Meir saw that Berurya was correct, and he prayed for God to have mercy on them, and they repented.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Elijah in the cave was bewildered and broken. He prayed to God to die. Despite his zeal for God and the pyrotechnics on Mount Carmel he was still hunted by the queen and her henchmen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The manifest miracle of bringing the first rain in two years, had had little lasting effect on the spiritual state of Israel or its leaders. After falling on their faces in awe of God, the people had not overthrown Ahab and Jezebel, nor returned <\/span>en masse<\/span><\/i> to monotheism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The violence of the storm failed to convince. Elijah\u2019s bold seizing of the keys of rain to enforce the Torah\u2019s message that there are consequences for disobedience, had brought no long-term educational reform.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Elijah\u2019s flight to the desert ends at Horeb, Mount Sinai, the site of God\u2019s revelation to Moses. Commentators point out the textual parallels between Elijah\u2019s standing here in a crevice in the rock and Moses standing in a cleft in the rock praying for compassion on Israel after the sin of the Golden calf and receiving the revelation of God\u2019s attributes of mercy and forgiveness. (Exodus 34.) Malbim suggests that this choice of location is a hint and a gentle rebuke to Elijah, that he too must let go of his righteous anger towards the people and pray for them out of compassion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As if to underline this message, God appeared to Elijah not in the sound and fury of earthquake, wind or fire, but in a \u201c<\/span>kol d\u2019mamah dakah.<\/span><\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0God\u2019s presence was expressed in the softness of a still, small voice. Elijah was taught to hear God through a quieter medium, similar to the almost imperceptible gentleness of dew, that Elijah\u2019s intervention had not withheld.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet in response, Elijah can only repeat his anguished refrain from verse 10, \u201cI am moved by zeal for the Lord, God of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant\u2026\u201d (v.14). Elijah cannot or will not move from judgement to mercy. To which God tells Elijah to go back the way he came, and when he meets Elisha, to anoint him as his successor. (v.16) Elijah is being fired.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The subtlety of this removal is poignant. God does not criticize Elijah for his failure, not express disappointment, nor even tell him directly that he must step aside. Having implicitly urged the prophet to be compassionate with his backsliding people, God Himself is infinitely compassionate with the prophet in his moment of breaking.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Who other than God could know the depths of Elijah\u2019s courage, the loneliness that he suffered, the pain of being harried and oppressed over many years for speaking God\u2019s truth and his desolate bewilderment when his greatest triumph turned to defeat? 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There are very few times when the Bible shows us a prophet selecting his own successor. We think of Moses with young Joshua, although we were never privy to Joshua\u2019s childhood or family of origin. But in I Kings 19, we listen in as God instructs Elijah to select Elisha to be his disciple and his successor.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You might think that, for an ambitious young Israelite, being told you get to take over for the most prominent prophet of the generation would get you to drop everything and run after the master. Ambition has blinded people for lesser prizes. But Elisha teaches us a lesson by the very compassion of his response.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Elijah throws his mantle over his chosen talmid<\/em> (disciple) as a signal that he is now the designated next prophet. Elisha runs after his new master, abandoning the twelve oxen he was guiding to plow the fields, and his one sentence to Elijah is to get permission for a proper goodbye to his parents: \u201cLet me kiss my mother and father goodbye and I will follow you (1 Kings 19:20).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A prophet grounded in Jewish values and nurtured by the transmission from one generation to another knows that honoring parents is the bedrock upon with any authentically-Jewish ethos rises. We learn to love beyond our own self interest when we notice the self-sacrifice of our parents and allow it to lift us up in gratitude and devotion. How telling, then, that at the very moment of his spiritual mission\u2019s launch, Elisha\u2019s first thoughts are to give affection and honor to the people who bore him, raised him, and prepared him for the spotlight.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not only does he go and kiss them, but apparently single-handedly, he prepares a feast for them and his community. It does take a village, after all. Not only through his words, but in his deeds, Elisha reminds us what it means to be a Child of Israel and a servant of the Holy One. We are born in a web of gratitude and love, and we become our best selves because of that selfless love. We owe those sources of devotion and care our thanks, our acknowledgement, and our care in return. Elisha models all three.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And only then, after kissing, feeding, and thanking, only then does Elisha stride toward his destiny: \u201cThen he arose and followed Elijah and became his 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At the end of every Yom Kippur, we quote the people in their great cry on top on Mount Carmel. They just watched Elijah perform his greatest miracle\u00a0 - and one of the greatest of all time - and are all shouting, \u201cThe Lord is God, the Lord is God!\u201d (18:39). What grand faith! If we had written the Bible, we would have had Elijah becoming top prophet, King Ahab and Queen Jezebel profusely apologizing for any agony they caused him prior to this great show of power and truth, and the whole kingdom repenting wholeheartedly, abandoning Baal worship and living happily ever after.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Instead, chapter 19 opens with Ahab telling Jezebel what Elijah did. Such a great show and she did not know about it? She had to be told? And his story - it\u2019s not about crowning God, miracles, rain and blessings but focuses on him killing the Baal prophets \u201cfor no reason at all.\u201d She immediately sends a messenger to Elijah, letting him know that his destiny will be like that of the other prophets. Namely, she has not lost any power whatsoever, while his life is still in grave danger.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Interestingly, Elijah is heartbroken. He wanders south to Beer Sheba, sits under a <\/span>rotem<\/em> <\/span>(broom) tree, and \u201cprayed that he might die. \u2018Enough!\u2019 he cried. \u2018Now, O LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers\u2019 (19:4). Since we know already Elijah is an all or nothing kind of guy, it seems like he expected perfect success, with the idea of failing impossible to bear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But, it turns out, dying is not so simple. An angel wakes him up with food, twice, saying, \u201cArise and eat, for your journey is still long for you\u201d (19:7). Through the strength of this food, he \u201cwalked forty days and forty nights as far as the mountain of God at Horeb\u201d (19:8). Reminiscent of Moses and his journey, Elijah follows to the place he can meet God face to face.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If the previous chapter is characterized by a very public show of noise and fire, this one is all about inward discoveries, privacy and silence: \u201cthe LORD was not in the wind\u2026 the LORD was not in the earthquake\u2026 the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire\u2014a soft murmuring sound of silence\u201d (19:11-12). Exactly where Moses learned God\u2019s thirteen attributes of mercy, Elijah is invited to relearn that Torah too. We\u2019re not about killing everybody who disagrees with us, says God in His own words.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Elijah, we\u2019re sorry, we have a problem with zealots and you overdid it. You\u2019ll have to go and \u201canoint Elisha son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet \u201c (19:16). The meaning of God\u2019s Oneness is that in every absolute wrong, there is at least a little bit right too. We\u2019re about the complexities of life, not the absolutes, because in this way, we can actually better hold that Oneness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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19:11 \u201cAnd He said, \u2018Go and stand on the mountain before the Lord, and, look, the Lord is about to pass over, with a great and strong wind tearing apart mountains and smashing rocks before the Lord. Not in the wind is the Lord. And after the wind an earthquake. Not in the earthquake is the Lord\u2026.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Elijah is commanded to assume the stature of Moses, but the epiphany he is vouchsafed vigorously revises the details of Moses\u2019s epiphany: God will reveal himself not in storm or fire or the shaking of the mountain but in a small, barely audible sound. On Mount Carmel, God spoke through fire; here at Horeb, he speaks in a more subtle language, for the deity is by no means limited to seismic manifestations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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When reading these chapters, one is struck by similarities between the biblical figures of Moses and Elijah. In our chapter alone, there are numerous contact points: the angel in the desert (as at the burning bush, Ex. 3:2), the miraculous forty days without eating or drinking, and, of course, Elijah's rendezvous with God at Mount Sinai. Furthermore, the chapter ends with the appointment of Elijah's disciple, Elisha, who will succeed him, much as Joshua, Moses' student, became his successor. (Even the name Elisha \u2014 \"God will save\" \u2014 matches the meaning of Joshua!). The chapter is filled with hidden references to Moses. But the parallel created by the focal scene of this chapter is the most evocative: Moses also visited God in the cave, or \"nook,\" on Mount Sinai. It was at that site, in that self-same mysterious cave, that the momentous debate raged between Moses and God, as Moses demanded Israel's forgiveness despite the grave idolatry of the golden calf (Ex. 33:17-23). At that great epiphany, God's presence, or essence, passed by Moses to utter the cardinal attributes of divine mercy:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAnd God passed over his face and proclaimed: The Lord, the Lord, a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in kindness and truth, extending kindness to the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin\u201d (Ex. 34:6-7).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is the historic significance of the cave at Mount Sinai? At that spot, Moses heroically defended his people when they had been found guilty of idolatry. At that cave, God revealed Himself as a merciful God, expressing His desire and capacity to for generosity and forbearance. God wants Elijah to learn from the great prophet Moses, the defender of Israel, who invoked the covenant to save the nation. Elijah doesn't get the hint! How wide, then, is the gulf that separates Moses and Elijah! Moses pleads for the nation; Elijah blames the nation. On the one hand, Moses knows how to present God's demands to the people \u2014 he rebukes them for their part in the golden calf and kills the perpetrators. But on the other hand, it is Moses who boldly stands before God to demand national forgiveness. In contrast, Elijah stands in the name of God and accuses the nation of abrogating the covenant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The cave at Sinai should have resounded with the mandate to defend and shield the nation despite its sin. Instead, Elijah chooses to bemoan, malign, and accuse Israel of breaching the covenant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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You want to do the will of God. You've learned<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>from <\/span>Eliyahu HaNavi<\/span><\/i> the will<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>of God demands restraint, demands a still<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>small voice that's stronger than the fire which burned<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>a forest down, a blazing fire which turned<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>a woods into a wasteland. There is a hill<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>above the woods and fields where farmers till<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>their land. This is the hill for which you've yearned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You've yearned to stand upon that hill and look<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>at how the land is ploughed, at how the land<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>produces wheat. This wheat becomes the bread<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>of faith. But now you close the book<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>you've learned from. Now you walk upon dry sand<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>you gathered from beneath an empty bed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Following \u00adhis success in vanquishing the idols and prophets of Baal, Elijah faces a new personal challenge requiring the intervention of God to help him reconcile.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On hearing from King Ahab all that Elijah had done, the fanatically idolatrous Queen Jezebel sends messengers to threaten Elijah\u2019s life. Elijah understands the power of influence that Jezebel holds not just over the king, but the whole nation, and goes into hiding with a totally deflated morale. God visits Elijah in his mountain cave hideout and asks him this pivotal question: \u201cWhy are you here (19:9)?\u201d Elijah\u2019s answer includes pointing to his own zealotry in defending God and failure to exact a lasting impact on the nation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God offers Elijah some professional development. He sends Elijah out of the cave onto the mountainside and brings heavy winds, followed by an earthquake, and finally fire. Each of these powerfully loud and visual events is followed in the text with the words \u201cbut God was not in the wind\/earthquake\/fire (9:12).\u201d Then comes \u201ca still small voice\u201d through which God tries to help Elijah understand that powerful, fiery leadership isn\u2019t always the best approach and that sometimes, as the Malbim puts it, \u201capproaching the people in a quiet voice to persuade them with bonds of love and gentle words\u201d is the better tactic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Effectively God is asking Elijah to consider his audience, the task at hand, and lead according to his followers needs. But when God again asks Elijah \u201cso why are you here?\u201d, Elijah answers, word-for-word, exactly as before. His reiteration of his innate zealous character implies that Elijah recognizes he doesn\u2019t have it in him to pull off the \u201cstill small voice\u201d model of leadership. With that self-awareness Elijah asks to be relieved of his duties and God accepts his resignation, instructing Elijah to appoint Elisha as his replacement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As the 18<\/span>th<\/span> century commentary Me\u2019am Lo\u2019ez points out, God recognizes a) that Elijah\u2019s zealous behavior had always come from a good place and used for good; b) that it wouldn\u2019t serve well at this point in the national journey; but c) there would be future missions in which Elijah\u2019s particular style would be crucial (like heralding the arrival of the Messiah and shepherding in the messianic era). In the meantime, when patience and mercy will be more effective than zealotry, the gentler, small voice of Elisha will be more appropriate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter reports on the consequences to Elijah of his stunning triumph over the priests of Ba'al that was described in the previous chapter. Jezebel put a price on his head and he was forced to flee to the wilderness\u2014implying that even a retreat to the Kingdom of Judah was not sufficiently secure; to wit:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He himself went a day\u2019s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush [or juniper tree] and sat down under it, and prayed that he might die. \u201cEnough!\u201d he cried. \u201cNow, O LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.\u201d (4)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why would a prophet of God\u2014moreover, a man who had demonstrably triumphed over death (see chapter 17)\u2014now seek it for himself? Here are some of the attempts made by the classic exegetes to understand this unusual behavior.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak suggested that he was not necessarily intent on dying; rather, he was offering God the choice of either taking his life or extricating him from his predicament. He had already lived longer than any of his ancestors and that supports the supposition that he was Phineas (see our comments on chapter 17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ralbag shrewdly observed that his seeking death implies that he, too, was suffering from the famine for which his own declaration of drought was responsible. He, too, adduced this verse as evidence that Elijah was Phineas and not only did God not accede to his request to die at that moment, but he is still alive.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim began by astutely observing that the verb \u201che came\u201d (<\/span>va-yavo<\/span><\/i>) means arrival at a destination, which implies that Elijah was not wandering randomly about the wilderness but was headed for a specific location only \u201cone day\u2019s journey\u201d away. Malbim also noted that Elijah\u2019s request was not self-destructive but was intended (rhetorically?) to ascertain whether he had fulfilled his life\u2019s mission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In light of the fact that there is no subsequent record of Elijah\u2019s death, only of his ascent (alive?) to heaven in a fiery chariot (2 Kings 2), coupled with his ubiquity on key ritual occasions (see our opening comments to 1 Kings 17), the rabbinic and medieval speculation over his lifespan is all the more poignant.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cWouldn't You Like to be a Zealot Too?\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Adina Cohen: When is zealotry the right move?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. A prophetic entourage<\/em>. A prophet, a man of God, and a disciple of the prophets accompany the king in this chapter, with encouraging messages, important information, and also - harsh criticism. By the way, none of the prophets in this chapter is the one we, and Ahab, know from previous chapters - Elijah.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Poetic kings<\/em>. The conversations between Ben-hadad and the king of Israel sound more like poetry than like declarations of war. Ben-hadad: \u201c\u201cMay the gods do thus to me and even more, if the dust of Samaria will provide even a handful for each of the men who follow me!\u201d (verse 10), and Ahab responds: \u201c\u201cTell him: Let not him who girds on his sword boast like him who ungirds it!\u201d (verse 11).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The logic of the drunk<\/em>. These are the instructions of the inebriated Ben-hadad regarding the Israelite warriors: \u201cIf they have come out to surrender, take them alive; and if they have come out for battle, take them alive anyhow\u201d (verse 18). Makes sense, no?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. A meaningful memory.<\/em> Seven days of preparations. A decisive victory on the seventh day. A wall that falls\u2026 If that description of the battle at Afek doesn\u2019t ring a bell yet - go back 114 chapters to Joshua, chapter 6, and a place called Jericho.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The moral of a story<\/em>. How does the lesson embodied by the disciple of the prophets fit the moral and sin of the king of Israel? There are more than a few questions. Commentators suggest some answers.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"I Kings 20","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"I Kings","chapter":"20","chapter_main_number":"307","date":"20261102","wall_id":"307"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/62498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}