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7:17- I shall strike the water in the Nile with the rod that is in my hand, and it will be turned into \u201cdam<\/em>,\u201d blood;<\/span>
\n<\/span>And the LORD said to Moses, \u201cSay to Aaron: Take your rod and hold out your arm over the waters of Egypt\u2014its rivers, its canals, its ponds, all its bodies of water\u2014that they may turn to \u201cdam<\/em>\u201d blood; there shall be \u201cdam<\/em>\u201d blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and stone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you call a stupid frog? Answer (at least for a 6 year old at an American seder, just learning the basic terms): \u201cA dam tzfarde\u2019a<\/em>.\u201d Tzfarde\u2019a<\/em>, \u201cfrog,\u201d is the second plague, and of course the first plague is, famously, blood (pronounced more like \u201cdahm<\/em>,\u201d and therefore more \u201cdumb,\u201d than \u201cdamn\u201d). \u00a0The waters of the Nile (and apparently – all the water in Egypt) turned to blood for a few days. You know, to make a point. <\/span><\/p>\n

Blood has appeared before in the Exodus story in the rather bizarre story of Moses returning with his family from Midian to Egypt, and stopping at an inn. There Tzipora, under some divine threat, circumcises her son, saying: \u201cYou are truly a bridegroom of blood to me!\u201d (see Ex 4:26). Sounds like a sort of B-grade horror movie, but it does presage some of the bloody scenes to follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of those is during the actual Exodus itself, when in chapter 12, the Israelites are commanded to daub some of the \u00a0blood (of the paschal sacrifice) on the lintels to mark their houses. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to find out more about the significance of blood in various aspects of Jewish history and tradition (and of course about the scurrilous blood libels in ages past), there was a a fascinating exhibit on the subject – “Blood: Uniting and Dividing” –\u00a0 a few years ago in several European Jewish museums (watch a short film about it here<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Linguistically, it seems there might not be much to say about blood. While not a three-letter root, the last letter does appear doubled in forms like dimum<\/em>, “bleeding.” Unlike English (that is unless you\u2019re a gang member fighting the Krips), it does have a plural, which we\u2019ve met in Gen chapter 4, when God accosts Cain after his killing of Abel: literally \u00a0\u201cyour brother\u2019s bloods,” dmei achicha<\/em>\u00a0cry out to Me from the ground!\u201d (v. 10).<\/span><\/p>\n

Also in Genesis (9:6) we encountered another grammatical form of blood, in the striking statement, both alliteratively and conceptually: S<\/em><\/span>hofech dam haadam, baadam damo yeschafech<\/em>\u00a0– “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And finally, it is also phonetically very striking to see the following four words together: dam, adom, adam, adamah<\/em>\u00a0– “blood, red, human, earth.”<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":104286,"id":104286,"title":"-62655101d76a1--62655101d76a2ex7-milim dam blood.jpg","filename":"62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-7\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":41225,"date":"2022-04-24 13:30:41","modified":"2023-11-19 20:29:06","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\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.jpg-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.jpg-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.jpg.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.jpg.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/62655101d76a1-62655101d76a2ex7-milim-dam-blood.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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