{"id":40500,"date":"2018-09-18T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=40500"},"modified":"2022-04-13T23:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:13:58","slug":"is-only-joseph-crying-for-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/is-only-joseph-crying-for-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Only Joseph Crying for His Father?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[490,484],"acf":{"old_id":"40500","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33942,"related_cahpter":"50","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The Book of Genesis ends with the death of Jacob\u2019s family ","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is Joseph the only one crying because of his father? \u00a0The festival of mourning for Jacob continues, I estimate, for about half a year. \u00a0Half a year of a continuous, rolling drama of mourning, of a big group that goes to the land of Canaan to bury the father of one of the rulers of Egypt, and on the way, attracts the attention of their Canaanite neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The great drama of Jacob\u2019s burial stands in contrast to the modest descriptions of his father and grandfather\u2019s deaths. \u00a0In the two latter cases, they are gathered to their ancestors, their two contending sons go together to bury their father: \u00a0Isaac and Ishmael bury Abraham and Jacob and Esau bury Isaac.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast to the modest, intimate portrayal of the death and burial of Abraham and Isaac, all that is associated with Jacob\u2019s burial and the mourning for him seems exaggerated and grotesque. \u00a0There is not one real or intimate moment in the burial of Jacob, except, it seems, the first moment: \u201cJoseph flung himself upon his father\u2019s face and wept over him and kissed him.\u201d (Genesis 50:1). \u00a0One son falls on his dead father and cries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, in a strange way, only Joseph falls on Jacob\u2019s bed; none of the eleven other brothers standing around their father\u2019s bed join him. \u00a0A closeness and intimacy that are renewed in ordinary families around moments of crisis and mourning does not occur among Jacob\u2019s sons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something too deep is broken there, and now instead of twelve brothers coming together to bury their father, they need a large contingency of people to hide their estrangement and anxiety, something that will blur the great rift that even death could not heal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Book of Genesis ends with the death of Jacob\u2019s family. \u00a0Perhaps when a family can no longer contain the pain and insult that are part of any intimate relationship, the family becomes a people.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Is Only Joseph Crying for His Father?","main_caption":"The Book of Genesis ends with the death of Jacob\u2019s family. \u00a0Perhaps when a family can no longer contain the pain and insult that are part of any intimate relationship, the family becomes a people.","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103997,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500\/revisions\/103997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}