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Gen 37:17 – He replied, \u201cI will send a kid from my flock.\u201d But she said, \u201cYou must leave a pledge, \u2018<\/em><\/span>eravon<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>until you have sent it.\u201d (also vv. 18, 20)<\/span><\/p>\n

When Judah wants to pay for services rendered on credit, Tamar demands a surety, a pledge. In Hebrew this is an \u00a0\u05e2\u05e8\u05d1\u05d5\u05df, <\/span>eravon<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>from the root \u05e2-\u05e8-\u05d1, <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>ayin-r-b<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> If the root for chapter 36 – y-l-d – was very productive in its various derivations, here we have a different case. This may be one of the most \u201chomonymous\u201d roots in the Hebrew language, meaning that this one string of three letters has many different meanings from possibly different (historical) sources. <\/span><\/p>\n

In this chapter the word means something like \u201cguarantee, commitment.\u201d See Avidan Freedman\u2019s lovely essay for today\u2019s chapter, \u201cThe Key to Redemption<\/a>\u201d on the idea of <\/span>\u2018areyvut<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> Judah will put this into practice in Egypt, when in 44:32 he says to Joseph: \u201c…your servant <\/span>\u2018arav<\/span><\/em> has pledged himself for the boy\u201d meaning that he is personally responsible for Benjamin. <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>Arav<\/em> <\/span>and <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>eravon<\/span><\/em> are one of the many verbal connections between the Judah story here and the Joseph story before and after this chapter. <\/span><\/p>\n

This root give us the idea of <\/span>kol yisrael areivim zeh lazeh <\/span><\/em>– <\/span><\/i>often translated as \u201call Jews are responsible one for the other.\u201d (see Song of Songs Rabbah 7, and Rashi on Lev. 26:37). In Israel, that\u2019s the word one uses at the bank for guarantors for a loan or a mortgage (and then you find out that not <\/span>all <\/b>Jews are indeed <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>areivim<\/span><\/em>\u2026). Likewise, an incorporated body, such as \u201cMonsters Inc.\u201d in Hebrew uses the acronym \u05d1\u05e2\u201d\u05de, <\/span>ba\u2019am<\/span>, <\/span>b\u2019eravon mugbal<\/span><\/em>, \u201cof limited liability.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But as mentioned the root \u05e2-\u05e8-\u05d1, <\/span>\u2018ayin-r-b<\/span><\/em> has many other meanings beside, and to tease apart what are indeed related and what are not is beyond the scope of this short piece. The authoritative six-volume Even Shoshan dictionary in its roots index, lists no less than seven separate meanings. In addition to the meaning above, they run from <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>arav hasa\u2019udi<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> \u201cSaudi Arabia;\u201d through <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>erev<\/span><\/em>, \u201cevening,\u201d (giving us <\/span>Ma\u2019ariv,<\/span><\/em> the evening prayer, and also the newspaper that used to come out in the evening, and <\/span>ma\u2019arav<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>\u201cwest,\u201d where the sun sets); \u2018<\/span>erev<\/span>, mixture or multitude; <\/span>\u2018erev<\/span><\/em> – the weft of a weaving, and also <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>arev<\/span><\/em>, \u201cbeautiful\u201d (see Song of Songs 2:14), and <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>aravah<\/span><\/em>, a \u201cwillow tree.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Those looking for literary and midrashic connections have a lot to work with here!<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":103444,"id":103444,"title":"-6241c47e02c73--6241c47e02c74gen38-milim arev.jpg","filename":"6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-gen-38\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":39313,"date":"2022-03-28 14:21:50","modified":"2022-03-28 14:22:03","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":960,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6241c47e02c73-6241c47e02c74gen38-milim-arev.jpg-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":"

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