![]() Joseph expected more from the cupbearer than pleasant recollections of the Israelite wunderkind back in the slammer. Most English translations render “remember me to Pharaoh” as “to mention me,” but the verb is zakar. When he interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh’s cupbearer, he begged him, “Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to remember me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house,” (40:15). As the Jewish scholar Nahum Sarna comments, “In the Bible, ‘remembering,’ particularly on the part of God, is not the retention or recollection of a mental image, but a focusing upon the object of memory that results in action.” In other words, God remembered Noah by doing something, by sending the saving, flood-drying wind. Biblical remembering is a body activity, not merely a head activity.įor instance, when “God remembered Noah” and his floating zoo, he “made a wind blow over the earth and the waters subsided,” (Gen 8:1). To zakar is to employ your hands and feet and lips to engage in whatever action that remembrance requires. In the Old Testament, to zakar is not merely to rifle through the files in your head until you find that fact you’ve been searching for. The one Hebrew word you don’t want to forget is the word for remember: zakar. Or, to say it differently, Tom chose to remember as the Hebrews remember while Charlie chose to behave like a Gentile. Poor Charlie will spend the night, if not the entire week, in the doghouse because he chose a remembrance of the mind over Tom’s remembrance of action. And I’ve been remembering that it’s our anniversary all day long.” I remembered it when I got up this morning and looked at the calendar. He remembered it in the same way that he remembered that 2+2=4, in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and that he’s going golfing with Jeff and Marty next Saturday.Īt bedtime, when Charlie asked his wife why she seemed so upset, she cried, “You forgot our anniversary!” to which Charlie, thoroughly surprised, replied, “No, honey, I did not forget. Tom remembered his anniversary by sending his wife a dozen red roses at work, taking her out to her favorite restaurant for dinner, and buying her a little gift that said, “I love you and I’m so happy that you’re my wife.”Ĭharlie remembered his anniversary in a much more dangerous way. Tom’s way landed him in his wife’s good graces Charlie’s landed him in the doghouse. Tom and Charlie remembered their respective wedding anniversaries in two very different ways. ![]()
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