{"id":630,"date":"2020-08-07T23:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=630"},"modified":"2020-10-20T22:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:00:06","slug":"do-not-destroy-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/do-not-destroy-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Idolatry and Rage…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We are warned not to destroy ourselves by allowing bitterness, anger, or fear to consume our hearts. In our Torah this week (Eikev<\/a>) we read: \u201cAnd you shall not bring an abominable thing (\u05ea\u05bc\u05d5\u05b9\u05e2\u05b5\u05d1\u05b8\u05d4) into your house and become devoted to destruction like it\u201d (Deut. 7:26). The sages of the Mishnah said that yielding to rage is equivalent to idol worship and should never be brought into the home. Indeed, rage is linked with avodah zarah<\/em>\u00a0 (\u05e2\u05d1\u05d5\u05d3\u05d4 \u05d6\u05e8\u05d4) – idolatry – because it exalts the ego and claims that the Lord can\u2019t (or won\u2019t) help you in your moment of testing or need. The Scriptures are clear, however, that \u201cthere is no test given to you that you cannot handle with God\u2019s help\u201d (1 Cor. 10:13), and we are invited to come boldly before the Divine Presence to find just such help in our time of need (Heb. 4:16). Believing that you can\u2019t overcome your fear or anger problem is therefore a form of idolatry. As is written: Lo yiheyeh vekha el zar (\u05dc\u05d0\u05be\u05d9\u05b4\u05d4\u05b0\u05d9\u05b6\u05d4 \u05d1\u05b0\u05da\u05b8 \u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d6\u05b8\u05e8) — “there shall be no foreign god within you” (Psalm 81:9), which means that we must expressly deny the ego\u2019s demand to have its will be done. Being full of a sense of self-importance is to be enslaved to vanity and to have a foreign god \u201cwithin you.\u201d God and human arrogance cannot coexist – since the inner world of the arrogant person denies God’s rightful place as King. As it is written in our Scriptures: “The wrath of man (\u05e7\u05b6\u05e6\u05b6\u05e3 \u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05b8\u05dd) does not work the righteousness of God” (James 1:20). God will indeed help us if we ask according to his will (1 John 5:14-15). Thank you, God. “Blessed is the LORD who delivers us from self-destruction.” Amen.<\/p>\n

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We are warned not to destroy ourselves by allowing bitterness, anger, or fear to consume our hearts. In our Torah this week (Eikev) we read: \u201cAnd you shall not bring an abominable thing (\u05ea\u05bc\u05d5\u05b9\u05e2\u05b5\u05d1\u05b8\u05d4) into your house and become devoted to destruction like it\u201d (Deut. 7:26). The sages of the Mishnah said that yielding to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dvar","category-hebrew-reading-practice","category-torah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}