מוציא? המוציא?
Once again - what are we talking about?
Did G?d bring forth bread from the earth? Or DOES G?d bring forth bread from the earth? And what is the difference.
Do we still experience G?d in our lives? Is our relationship to G?d based on our own experience of the divine or on our tradition of remembering a time when that experience was part of the lived experience of our people.
If I struggle to conclude that I experience the divine in my everyday life today, should I revert to the version of the blessing which only attests to a past experience of divine providence? Or is the affirmation of G?d's action in the present a statement of faith that I believe despite the lack of evidence. That I am optimistic that this world has meaning, though it is beyond my perception?
In the end - even attesting to G?d's present in the past is a statement of faith - faith in our ancestors. The truth is that G?d was almost certainly no more present in their lives than in ours. We are not really concerned with whether G?d still acts in the world or only once acted in the world - but rather whether and how WE act. Will we keep searching for the divine? And more importantly will we keep bringing forth food to feed G?d's children who need it. And finally will we make sure that in future generations the earth will still be able to produce food so that someone in the future can wonder whether we experienced the divine, or lived in a G?dless world? If in the future our descendants still have the bread of the earth upon which to say a blessing, we will have brought a little G?dliness to this world.
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