Once upon a time, in biblical times, we expected that God would save us. That was the age of miracles, of the divine presence bringing the Israelites out of Egypt and parting the sea, and being invoked to battle against our enemies.
But that is not the way Jewish history, and human history, has unfolded. Over time, the active presence of God has receded. The age of miracles has ended.
God recedes, so to bring human beings into a higher sense of responsibility. Human beings are utterly free.
God is still present, in the form of Shechinah, the feminine presence of God who wanders with us, and suffers with us.
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