Hey Amy, hope you've been having a wonderful Passover!
That's a great question - the relationship between Emunah and Tikva. I need to think about it a bit more - I think Emunah is relational in a way Tikva isn't (like I can have Tikva for the future, but i can have Emunah in someone else). Great question to think about.
Passover ends soon and every year it feel richer with meaning in both memories and repeated rituals.
Your response spurs me on....Perhaps then hope is the yearning that compelled the Jews to cry out to Gd. And it seems to me yearning is at the heart of Jewish history and experience. So when the Israelites cried out and Gd said "what are you coming to me for? Get moving", it was a way of Gd putting faith in the Israelites, saying "you can do it! You have agency!" So it was only when it appeared Gd was dismissing them that they also felt encouraged (literally find courage), like the good parent or even the good friend who loves deeply but knows their loved one can only help themselves. A great paradox. So perhaps faith was really in that first step, but it was Gd's faith, not the Israelites, that spurred on the first leap!
So turned on its head the Israelites surged forward with Gd's faith in them, even if they could not believe in the outcome till it was achieved. Only then was faith in Gd fully realized...temporarily. We see how short lived human faith is, until yearning builds once again. In this way, it appears hope and faith weave in and out of our history like tightly knit tsitsit. Hmmmm....
Amy, I ended up teaching on Emunah this Passover and went in this direction! I found a beautiful teaching by R' Tzadok of Lublin that ties Emunah to faith in oneself - love thinking about the different ways we weave faith!
Emunah holds all the elements of Tikva doesn't it?
The complete opposite of cynicism.
Going forward. Movement.
I will never think of Miriam's timbrel the same way after your sharing of mother's thought.
חג פסח שמח Mijal!
Hey Amy, hope you've been having a wonderful Passover!
That's a great question - the relationship between Emunah and Tikva. I need to think about it a bit more - I think Emunah is relational in a way Tikva isn't (like I can have Tikva for the future, but i can have Emunah in someone else). Great question to think about.
Agreed, re: Miriam's timbrel!
Hag sameah!
Passover ends soon and every year it feel richer with meaning in both memories and repeated rituals.
Your response spurs me on....Perhaps then hope is the yearning that compelled the Jews to cry out to Gd. And it seems to me yearning is at the heart of Jewish history and experience. So when the Israelites cried out and Gd said "what are you coming to me for? Get moving", it was a way of Gd putting faith in the Israelites, saying "you can do it! You have agency!" So it was only when it appeared Gd was dismissing them that they also felt encouraged (literally find courage), like the good parent or even the good friend who loves deeply but knows their loved one can only help themselves. A great paradox. So perhaps faith was really in that first step, but it was Gd's faith, not the Israelites, that spurred on the first leap!
So turned on its head the Israelites surged forward with Gd's faith in them, even if they could not believe in the outcome till it was achieved. Only then was faith in Gd fully realized...temporarily. We see how short lived human faith is, until yearning builds once again. In this way, it appears hope and faith weave in and out of our history like tightly knit tsitsit. Hmmmm....
Amy, I ended up teaching on Emunah this Passover and went in this direction! I found a beautiful teaching by R' Tzadok of Lublin that ties Emunah to faith in oneself - love thinking about the different ways we weave faith!
Thank you for this.
More than you know.
All of it.
Thank you, Jo - wishing you and yours a meaningful rest of Passover!