{"id":139,"date":"2007-04-03T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=139"},"modified":"2007-04-03T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T05:36:12","slug":"happy-pesach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Happy Pesach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t go into the whole Passover story, like I did for <a href=\"http:\/\/famille.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/purim.html\">Purim<\/a>.&nbsp; However, I thought this was an interesting side note.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us know the story about the Jews escaping from hard labor in Egypt.&nbsp; Not enough time to rise the bread, so we eat Matzah, yadda yadda, and then the parting of the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>What few know is that actually, it didn&#8217;t go like things did in The Ten Commandments.&nbsp; The Jews didn&#8217;t arrive at the banks of the Red Sea and suddenly things just opened up for them.&nbsp; In fact, at first, (the story tells us), nothing at all happened.&nbsp; It wasn&#8217;t until every Jew had completely immersed themselves before the miracle of the parting of the Sea occurred.&nbsp; In fact, the story goes on to say that most had to go in far enough that they actually could not breathe until the sea was parted.<\/p>\n<p>This was an extraordinary leap of faith.&nbsp; No one knew for sure what to do next or what would happen, only that their God would see them through.&nbsp; And only when things got as bad as they possibly could get (as with the faithful who dove in over their heads) did divine intervention save them. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This story tells us a lot.&nbsp; First, that faith &#8211; most importantly &#8211; is required for God&#8217;s intervention.&nbsp; Second, even when God was imposing his will in the form of miracles that saved the Nation of Israel, personal human choice was required to make those miracles happen.&nbsp; Faith first, and choice second.&nbsp; That&#8217;s the way it has always been, even in the days of the Passover.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Passover.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t go into the whole Passover story, like I did for Purim.&nbsp; However, I thought this was an interesting side note. Most of us know the story about the Jews escaping from hard labor in Egypt.&nbsp; Not enough time to rise the bread, so we eat Matzah, yadda yadda, and then the parting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}