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It&#8217;s the message of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">areyvut<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a word so rich with meanings that it is impossible to translate into a single English word.. The root <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arev<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is introduced for the first time in the Torah by Tamar in a seemingly innocuous way. When, disguised as a harlot, she demands an <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>eiravon<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from Judah, he thinks that she is asking for a loan guarantee, an object of significant enough value to Judah that ensures he repay the money rather than forfeit it. From this perspective, the guarantee is a failure. Upon encountering the first difficulty with locating his debtor, Judah readily gives up on the objects of symbolic value he had given Tamar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, in reality, Tamar has something much deeper in mind. She is concerned not with commodities, but with commitments. Her payment was not the first commitment Judah had shirked. Just as Judah&#8217;s cost-benefit analysis brought him to give up on paying the harlot, it had brought him to leave Tamar as a chained woman, so as not to endanger his son, Shela. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamar demands that Judah abandon the cold calculations of an objective decision-maker, and become intimately, personally involved. The symbols of personal identification she asks for are a symbol of this, but her impregnation by Judah is the literal physical representation of her point. The word \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arev <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is closely related to the words meaning to mix. To be an <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018arev <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is to be mixed up in the issue as more than a stake-holder. It is to make it part of ourselves. But deep, personal identification can&#8217;t be forced. Tamar must allow Judah to make that leap himself. 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