{"id":41040,"date":"2018-09-27T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T06:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41040"},"modified":"2022-04-26T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T10:21:30","slug":"the-law-of-preservation-of-personalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-law-of-preservation-of-personalities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law of Preservation of Personalities"},"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":[626,363],"acf":{"old_id":"41040","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"59","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Balaam, Job, Jethro - and Pharaoh","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occasionally, rabbinic folklore (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aggadah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) will offer an identification of a character who remains anonymous in the Torah. A well-known instance is when Og the giant is identified as \u201cthe survivor\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hapalit<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Gen. 14:13) who notified Abraham of Lot\u2019s capture. This literary device, which I call \u201cthe law of preservation of personalities,\u201d is also illustrated in today\u2019s chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hail (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">barad<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), the seventh of the ten plagues, produced an unprecedented reaction. Unlike the previous plagues that appear to have afflicted all Egyptians equally, this time we are told that \u201cWhoever of Pharaoh\u2019s servants feared the word of the Lord chased his cattle indoors\u201d (9:20) and escaped the hail\u2019s consequences. Small wonder, then, that the Sages found this aberration significant enough to speculate on the identity of that God-fearing Egyptian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Yishmael taught: Job was one of Pharaoh\u2019s servants; an esteemed member of his retinue. Our verse states \u201cWhoever of Pharaoh\u2019s servants <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feared the word of the Lord<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d and of Job it states \u201cAn upright man, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who feared the Lord<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and avoided evil\u201d (Job 1:8). (Yerushalmi Sotah 5:6)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A related aggadah, basing itself on Pharaoh\u2019s declaration \u201cLet us take counsel against [the Israelites] lest they multiply\u201d (Exodus 1:10), named Job and two other notable non-Jews of biblical fame\u2014or infamy\u2013as the counselors whose advice was sought prior to the oppression and enslavement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three participated in that counsel: Balaam, Job, and Jethro. Balaam offered [wicked] counsel and was killed. Job demurred and suffered privations. Jethro absconded and his descendants merited seats in the Chamber of Hewn Stone [home of the Sanhedrin]. 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