{"id":41239,"date":"2018-10-01T07:58:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41239"},"modified":"2022-04-25T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:13:02","slug":"milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-8\/","title":{"rendered":"MiliMiliM &#8211; The Hebrew Corner &#8211; Exodus 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[361],"acf":{"old_id":"41239","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":false,"related_cahpter":"58","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"\u05e8\u05d5\u05d5\u05d7\u05d4 - Revachah - Relief \r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8:11 &#8211; \u201cBut when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, \u201c<em>harevachah<\/em>,\u201d he became stubborn and would not heed them, as the LORD had spoken.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the social protests in Israel a few years back, there were many slogans about what changes should be made in the country. There was one in particular that struck me, because of its play on Hebrew words: \u201c<em>tzedek velo tzedakah, revachah velo revachim<\/em>!\u201d We want a society based on \u201cjustice, not charity\u201d and on \u201csocial welfare, not profits.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That word <em>revachah<\/em> in our chapter clearly refers to \u201crelief\u201d from the suffering of the plagues, in this case #2, the frogs. It\u2019s interesting that it should be used in this way specifically in Egypt, called in Hebrew \u201c<em>mitzrayim<\/em>,\u201d that narrow land, place of constriction. That is because the root associated with this word means essentially the opposite: spread out, airy (and indeed may be related to the word \u201cruach,\u201d wind or spirit). You can \u201c<em>mitraveach<\/em>\u201d on the couch, \u201cspread out\u201d or \u201cget comfortable.\u201d In writing, the space following a word is a \u201c<em>revach<\/em>\u201d and the spacing between lines is \u201c<em>rivuach<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That feeling of expansiveness also translates into the economic realm, when there is some \u201cair\u201d between the price paid for something, and the price received upon reselling, i.e., the profit (<em>revach, revachim<\/em>, \u201cprofit, profits,\u201d <em>leharviach<\/em>, \u201cto make money\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word \u201c<em>revachah<\/em>\u201d appears only one other place in the Tanakh, Lamentations 3:56, but the form \u201c<em>revach<\/em>\u201d appears in Esther 4:14, meaning essentially the same thing, \u201c<em>revach vehatzalah<\/em>,\u201d \u201crelief and deliverance.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was striking that even though we Jews like to boast that our notion of charity, \u201c<em>tzedakah<\/em>,\u201d is based on justice, \u201c<em>tzedek<\/em>,\u201d the protesters saw them in modern political terms as oppositional concepts. The case is similar for \u201c<em>revachim<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>revachah<\/em>\u201d: a society based on the private profits of the wealthy, or a vision of welfare for all. We see from our chapter that the \u201c<em>revachah<\/em>\u201d that was momentarily achieved, benefiting all in its relief, did not affect the long term policies of Pharaoh, as he led his society, based on cruelty and slavery, not to mention his own egotism and entitlement, to its downfall.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":104320,"id":104320,"title":"-6266903cb2445--6266903cb2447ex8-milim revachah relax.png.jpg","filename":"6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-8\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax-png-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax-png-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":41239,"date":"2022-04-25 12:12:44","modified":"2022-04-25 12:13:00","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\/10\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.jpg-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.jpg-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.jpg.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.jpg.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6266903cb2445-6266903cb2447ex8-milim-revachah-relax.png.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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