{"id":72911,"date":"2015-08-23T09:25:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T17:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72911"},"modified":"2015-08-23T09:31:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T17:31:40","slug":"understanding-rebellion-against-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72911","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Rebellion Against God"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most profound way of quelling rebellion is by exposing its true nature: our refusal to be satisfied with our present understanding of God and our revulsion against the shallowness of our relationship with Him. Our rebellion articulates our despair: “If this is all there is to the Divine life, I want nothing of it!”<\/p>\n

Seen in this light, our rebellions — and the rebellions of the Jewish people so soon after they set forth on their journeys — are a cry for sincere return to God (teshuvah), for reestablishing our relationship with Him on a deeper level than it ever was before. (Chayenu<\/a>: Beha’alos’cha, 5775)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most profound way of quelling rebellion is by exposing its true nature: our refusal to be satisfied with our present understanding of God and our revulsion against the shallowness of our relationship with Him. Our rebellion articulates our despair: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72914,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72911\/revisions\/72914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}