{"id":42255,"date":"2018-10-17T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=42255"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T06:22:27","slug":"milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-20\/","title":{"rendered":"MiliMiliM &#8211; The Hebrew Corner &#8211; Exodus 20"},"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":[653,361],"acf":{"old_id":"42255","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34011,"related_cahpter":"70","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"\u05ea\u05d7\u05de\u05d5\u05d3 - Tachmod - Covet\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20:14 &#8211; \u201c<em>Lo tachmod<\/em>\u201d You shall not covet your neighbor\u2019s house: you shall not \u201c<em>tachmod<\/em>\u201d covet your neighbor\u2019s wife, or his male or female slave, or his ox or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key word of the 10th commandment is <em>tachmod<\/em>, \u201ccovet.\u201d There is much discussion among commentators regarding what exactly this word means (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/70\/post\/42036\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">see here <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for some explication). But linguistically this word is interesting, because of its built-in ambivalence. On the one hand, this is the tenth, and some would say, climactic statement of the Big 10 &#8211; it\u2019s a very serious prohibition, with very negative connotations. The abstract noun form is <em>chamdanut,<\/em> \u201cavarice, cupidity\u201d and the person who is guilty of that particular sin, <em>chamdan<\/em>&#8211; is not very nice!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, it\u2019s a very positive root: \u05d7-\u05de-\u05d3, <em>ch-m-d<\/em>, is the root of \u05e0\u05d7\u05de\u05d3, <em>nechmad<\/em>, exactly \u201cnice, desirable.\u201d Likewise, the root of \u05d7\u05de\u05d5\u05d3, <em>chamud<\/em>, \u201ccute, attractive\u201d (a common Israeli endearment). Two very positive things are described as <em>chemdah<\/em>: Shabbat is <em>chemdat yamim,<\/em> the most desirable of days, and Israel is <em>eretz chemdah<\/em>, the desirable of lands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Arabic, the cognate root means \u201cpraise, bless\u201d and so the name Muhammad means \u201cblessed one,\u201d while the Arabic equivalent of <em>baruch hashem<\/em>, praise God, is <em>hamdulelah<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the actual verb, <em>chamad<\/em>, the precise word used in the commandment, is used in the most positive of contexts in the line: <em>eileh chamda libi<\/em>, \u201cthese [God\u2019s teachings] my heart desires.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">True, like many <em>yetzarim<\/em>, inclinations or lustful feelings, one can \u201cdesire\u201d good or bad things, have legitimate or illegitimate objects of desire. Interestingly, a similar word is added to this one in the second version of the ten commandments in Deuteronomy 5:18: \u201cYou shall not covet &#8230;You shall not crave &#8211; <em>lo titaveh\u201d,<\/em> from the word <em>ta\u2019avah,<\/em> \u201clust.\u201d This pairing, by using the very same terms serves to connect the idea of coveting to the ur-story of wanton wanting, Eve and Adam and the forbidden Trees (Gen 3:6): \u201cWhen the woman saw that the tree was good for eating and a &#8220;<em>taavah<\/em>&#8221; delight to the eyes, and that the tree was &#8220;<em>nechmad<\/em>&#8221; desirable as a source of wisdom, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, and he ate.\u201d This root, <em>ch-m-d<\/em>, is indeed at the root of much of human experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*For a different take entirely on the meaning of this verb &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/goddidntsaythat.com\/tag\/thou-shalt-not-covet\">Joel Hoffman&#8217;s blog<\/a> on the subject.\u00a0<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":104751,"id":104751,"title":"-627b56154dcc1--627b56154dcc2ex20-milim tachmod covet.jpg","filename":"627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-20\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":42255,"date":"2022-05-11 06:22:13","modified":"2022-05-11 06:22:23","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\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.jpg-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.jpg-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.jpg.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.jpg.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/10\/627b56154dcc1-627b56154dcc2ex20-milim-tachmod-covet.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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