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What merited the entire world\u2019s destruction in the Flood? That it was filled with <em>chamas<\/em>, lawlessness (6:13). Here it is used by Jacob as a castigation to Simeon and Levi for their vengeful murder spree. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this word has special significance for us for two reasons. First, synagogue-going Jews on Yom Kippur will say the traditional \u201cconfessional prayer\u201d (vidui), which is arranged as an alphabetic acrostic. \u05d7-\u05de-\u05e1, <em>ch-m-s<\/em>, is the root used for the letter \u201c<em>chet<\/em>\u201d &#8211; \u05d7\u05de\u05e1\u05e0\u05d5, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chamasnu<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we have done violence, or oppressed. We hear the language of Genesis echoing throughout the liturgy of the ages. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second reason is more geopolitic. The ruling faction of the Palestinians in Gaza is in fact called Hamas. I\u2019m sure many Tanakh-studying Jews come across this word \u201c<em>chamas<\/em>\u201d which is more familiar from newspaper headlines, and then are, what &#8211; stunned? gratified? have feelings of divine poetic justice? that the word in Hebrew means what it does. That name was chosen by the Palestinians for two reasons. It is an acronym for <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u1e24arakat al-Muq\u0101wamah al-\u02beIsl\u0101miyyah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Islamic Resistance Movement. But it also is a word in Arabic that means something like valor, strength, or power. And yes, it is the same Semitic root as the Hebrew term. In Hebrew, the core meaning of force ended up denoting only a negative context, doing things by force, or oppressive power, while in the Arabic, the word has mainly positive connotations. <\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":103948,"id":103948,"title":"-62559a1d60d7d--62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim hamas.jpg","filename":"62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-gen-49\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":40511,"date":"2022-04-12 15:26:21","modified":"2022-04-12 15:26:33","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\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62559a1d60d7d-62559a1d60d7fgen49-milim-hamas.jpg-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"MiliMiliM - 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