{"id":37321,"date":"2018-08-08T13:29:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T10:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=37321"},"modified":"2022-03-05T23:06:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T21:06:14","slug":"sarahs-exiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sarahs-exiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah\u2019s Exiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[432,363,427],"acf":{"old_id":"37321","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37136,"related_cahpter":"21","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Sarah\u2019s disappearance from the text follows her call for the banishment of Hagar and Ishmael","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Sarah and Hagar make their final appearance in this chapter. \u00a0Hagar\u2019s final act is finding her son a wife from the land of Egypt. \u00a0Sarah\u2019s final act is her banishing Hagar and Ishmael &#8211; using the word <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u05d2\u05bc\u05b8\u05e8\u05b5\u059b\u05e9\u05c1,\u00a0<em>garesh<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; to banish. This word is only used in only one other place, in a description by God that the children of Israel will be permanently exiled from Egypt. \u00a0Sarah is hoping to create a permanent deportation and exile of Hagar, a longstanding member of their household. It is striking that her calling for the banishing of another are the final words we hear from her, leading one to speculate about the injury she caused herself by calling for the exile of another. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the midrash associates the death of Sarah with the binding of Isaac, Sarah\u2019s disappearance from the text follows her call for the banishment of Hagar and Ishmael.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is not clear what Ishmael does to bring out the protective mama bear in Sarah. We are told that Sarah sees Hagar the Egyptian\u2019s son \u05de\u05b0\u05e6\u05b7\u05d7\u05b5\u05bd\u05e7,\u00a0<em>metzachek<\/em> (playing). The rabbis suggest a number of possible negative activities. Perhaps the problem is that Ishmael is being Yitzhakesque, as the word \u05de\u05b0\u05e6\u05b7\u05d7\u05b5\u05bd\u05e7 derives from the same root as Yitzhak\u2019s name. It is his similarity to Yitzhak that provokes Sarah\u2019s fear that he will take the place of Yitzhak. There is not enough for both sons in Abraham\u2019s household.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah shifts to more negative and depersonalizing references to Hagar and Ishmael to lower their status and undermine their legitimacy in the house of Abraham. \u00a0Hagar gets called \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05de\u05b8\u05a3\u05d4,\u00a0<em>ha&#8217;amah<\/em> (the slave) which is a new term used to describe her rather than by her name and there are many references calling out her foreign status, referring to her being an Egyptian. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The chapter tells an intense tale of danger and destruction when we dehumanize and call for the exile of others. There is an imbedded suggestion of a different path we can follow. \u00a0Our story ends with God hearing the voice of the boy where he is and opening Hagar\u2019s eyes to a well. This is a call to us to follow God\u2019s example to hear the cry of the vulnerable wherever they might be, and to open our own eyes and the eyes of others to wells and possibilities that were previously not seen.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":37744,"id":37744,"title":"sarah-crying with baby","filename":"sarah-crying-with-baby.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sarah-crying-with-baby.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sarah-finally-understands-the-suffering-she-caused\/sarah-crying-with-baby\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"sarah-crying-with-baby","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":37613,"date":"2018-08-13 19:53:56","modified":"2022-03-05 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