{"id":670,"date":"2016-04-30T18:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T22:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=670"},"modified":"2016-04-30T18:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T22:49:38","slug":"more-passover-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"More Passover questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s only been recently that I learned to view biblical stories with a new lens.\u00a0 As I prepared for becoming a Bat Mitzvah in early 2015, I grappled with my D\u2019var Torah (literally word of the Torah, or lesson, otherwise known as \u201cthe speech\u201d).\u00a0 I went to others for guidance.\u00a0 Friends shared that I ought to go deeper.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be so literal, they\u2019d say.\u00a0 Use the stories as a metaphor.\u00a0 \u201cElise, what do these stories mean for you at this time?\u201d\u00a0 Or \u201cwhat do they mean for our culture now?\u201d This opened so much up for me.<\/p>\n

The portion of the Torah that I read was the story of the exodus.\u00a0 During Passover, this story is retold.\u00a0 While this is a legend about freedom, like so many, I was stuck on the Egyptians drowning.\u00a0 How could I make sense of this?\u00a0 During the last days of Passover, I was reminded to reflect on this.\u00a0 I struggled as I prepared for my Bat Mitzvah and I continue to struggle.\u00a0 Who are the Egyptians to me?\u00a0 Who or what is enslaving that in me which needs to be free? \u00a0What is it here and now, in my grief that needs to shift and soften?\u00a0 What in this culture needs to change so that we are living with more love?\u00a0 How can I be more loving?<\/p>\n

I know that you cannot answer these questions for me.\u00a0 I invite you to share some of your personal reflections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s only been recently that I learned to view biblical stories with a new lens.\u00a0 As I prepared for becoming a Bat Mitzvah in early 2015, I grappled with my D\u2019var Torah (literally word of the Torah, or lesson, otherwise known as \u201cthe speech\u201d).\u00a0 I went to others for guidance.\u00a0 Friends shared that I ought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ripples-pearls-from-others"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p720L0-aO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}