The Hebrew word for faith in the Old Testament is emunah. What makes that word interesting is that it’s the sound that a baby donkey makes when it is calling for its mother. To appreciate that, you have to say emunah so it sounds like that. If you want to hear the meaning of emunah, you need to say it like soft braying. The point is that faith in the Hebrew Bible is like a baby donkey calling or crying out for its mother. There’s something kind of wonderful about that. There is an element—I don’t know if you want to say of desperation in it or not, but there certainly is an element of
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