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Ex 9-10: And [Pharaoh] said to his people, \u201cLook, the Israelite people are much too numerous for us. “Hava nitchakmah<\/em>” Let us deal shrewdly with them, so that they may not increase\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

In this chapter we have an example of a perfectly \u201cnormal\u201d root – <\/span>ch-ch-m<\/span><\/em> – with meanings connected to wisdom, that appears here in a surprising form. <\/span><\/p>\n

Chacham<\/em> is a sage or wise person, familiar from the first son of the four of the Pesach seder. The prototypical <\/span>chachamim<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>were the rabbis of antiquity, the “sages of blessed memory,” known in Hebrew as \u05d7\u05d6”\u05dc, <\/span>chazal<\/span><\/em>. But anybody can be considered wise, who possesses the quality of <\/span>chochmah<\/span><\/em>, \u201cwisdom\u201d This is the first element of the triad of \u201cchabad\u201d – chochmah, binah <\/em>and da\u2019at<\/em>, wisdom, understanding and knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Talmudic text “The Ethics of the Fathers” asks the question <\/span>Eyzehu chacham<\/span><\/em>? “Who is wise?” Their answer isn’t about high achievers in the wisdom acquisition category, but an almost moral category of how the truly wise relate to others. They answer: “Who is wise? One who learns from all people” (4:1).<\/span><\/p>\n

The word used here to describe how Pharaoh decided to deal with the Israelites is not exactly a paragon of that sort of wisdom. The form <\/span>hitchakem<\/span><\/em> has two basic meanings, each \u00a0a perversion of wisdom. One is to be the opposite of “a wise person,” which in English we would call “a wise guy.” For instance, in the book of Ecclesiastes, there is sage advice given: \u201cdon\u2019t overdo goodness and don\u2019t <\/span>titchakem<\/em> <\/span>act the wise man <\/b>to excess\u201d (7:16). In modern Hebrew we might call someone who wasn\u2019t wise but was being (or \u201ccracking\u201d) wise a <\/span>chochmalog<\/span><\/em>, adding a sort of academic suffix, as if to say that the wise guy is so smart that he has a degree in “chochmalogy.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Pharaoh, of course, wasn\u2019t \u201cwising off\u201d to the Israelites, he was being wise in the sense of crafty or cunning. He was being Machiavellian three millennia before Machiavelli. As he says \u201chava nitchkmah<\/em>\u201d \u201clet us be sneaky and shrewd,\u201d one can almost see him rubbing his hands together with the \u201cmu-ha-ha\u201d evil laugh, as he lays his evil schemes. 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