Dear Friends,\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Our country is at an auspicious moment. It is wracked both by the biological pandemic of COVID-19, and the social plague of racism and injustice, and both need to be dealt with head-on: honestly, openly, with the willingness to work for the betterment of all. Without exaggeration, it seems that the magnitude of the issues, and their consequences are of biblical proportions.<\/p>\r\n
Which brings us to 929: biblical proportions and connections is us.<\/p>\r\n
In our rhythm of a chapter-a-day, we have just begun what are known as \"the Twelve\" (Trei-asar) latter prophets. We are in mid-Hosea, and will soon progress to Joel, Amos, Jonah, Micha and the rest. There is a wealth of material here that relates to matters of very contemporary import: working for social justice, ending oppression, protecting the powerless, fighting callousness and apathy, insights into the nature of the good society, and more.<\/p>\r\n
We are inviting you to share your thoughts on issues of the day in light of Biblical teaching. How are you inspired to act? What motivates your engagement with the challenges of our generation?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Where to begin? There's so much: there's Amos chapter 5 (a favorite of Dr. King's). And there's also Zechariah 7, Micah 6 (often quoted as the very essence of Jewish teaching), Malachi 3 and much, much more.<\/p>\r\n If you've contributed posts to 929: we encourage you to dip into this summer's material of these 12 short and inspiring books, and contribute again.\u00a0If you've never written for 929: contact our education director Shira Hecht-Koller at\u00a0shirahk@929.org.il<\/a>\u00a0or our editor Jeremy Benstein at\u00a0jeremy@929.org.il<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and we'll help you get on board. It's not hard, and we are always looking for new voices and perspectives.<\/p>\r\n Be in touch today!<\/p>\r\n The English 929 Team<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76408,"alt":"","title":"Header - 929 people","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Header-929-people.jpg","width":2500,"height":1429,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Header-929-people-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Header-929-people-300x171.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Header-929-people-768x439.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":439,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Header-929-people-1024x585.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":585,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Header-929-people.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":878,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Header-929-people.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1171,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Header-929-people-1200x686.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":686,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Header-929-people-735x420.jpg","home_baner-width":735,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Reflect With Us. 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Although the love-awe emotional dyad is usually used to prescribe a human approach to divine power, here it also tells us something about how God relates to human weakness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n The chapter opens with reference to the love that God felt toward the Israelite people, depicted as a child, when they were in Egypt. But Midrash Shemot Rabbah (43:9) helps us imagine that this love, like so many loves, has a complicated history. Yes, God relates to the Israelites with love. But, we\u2019re told by the Midrash, that\u2019s only after God experiences the power of the people\u2019s rejection of God\u2019s divinity, embodied in a statue of a calf.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n God responds to their idolatry by discussing with Moses the prospect of eradicating the newly formed Nation of Israel. According to the Midrash, Moses reminds the Lord of the image reflected in verse 1 of Hosea 11. He points out that the incipient nation is still in its formative moments, still the collective equivalent of a child. He therefore pleads with God to give the people a break.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n Perhaps Moses intuited that God shared some of the fear that, according to the Yismach Moshe (Vayishlach 8:1), accompanied the divine promise made to the forefathers. Because the promise that they would have many descendants who would achieve national fulfillment was understood as conditional on future events, the Yismach Moshe explains, the recipients of the promise feared that it could fall through. Given the many other emotions biblically ascribed to God, we can imagine a corresponding fear felt by God that God\u2019s plan would fall apart. And a combination of God\u2019s perception that the people were asserting their independence with the fear that human action could undo God\u2019s project might be called awe. The opening lines of Chapter 11 of Hosea, as read through the midrashic lens, pair that awe with divine love following Moses\u2019 intervention on behalf of the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n The closing verses of the chapter give us another view of love and awe. There the people are depicted as fluttering, peaceful birds that are drawn close, rather than being frightened away, by the roar of a powerful lion. Thus, they respond in a manner uncharacteristic of such flighty creatures when they hear the mighty sound which is symbolic of a divine call. 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Until now, the prophet has portrayed Israel as the wayward wife whose adulterous and scandalous behavior has made her unfit to remain in a relationship with God, her husband. Suddenly, Hosea ceases from describing the people as God's wife, but returns to an earlier metaphor found in the Torah, that of God's children: \"For, when Israel was young, I loved him, and from Egypt I called My son.\" The change in metaphor is significant for several reasons, not the least of which is the underlying nature of the relationship. Marriages are freely entered into, and can be terminated; however, people do not choose their parents or children, and the biological bounds unite them for life. Hosea does not pretend that the children are blameless \u2013 he is aware that \"to the Baalim they would slaughter sacrifices, and to the graven images they would burn incense.\" Despite that, \"\u2026 he took them on his arms, but they did not know that I healed them. 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