{"id":43732,"date":"2018-11-11T20:20:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=43732"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:43:12","slug":"mirror-mirror-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/mirror-mirror-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror, Mirror (III)"},"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":[375,381,600],"acf":{"old_id":"43732","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"88","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Faith, courage and ingenuity","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">The Torah when describing the making of the Mishkan, goes out of its way to emphasize the role women played in it. Kli Yakar (R. Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, 1550 \u20131619) makes the point that since the Tabernacle was an atonement for the Golden Calf, the women had no need to contribute at all, since it was the men not the women who needed atonement. Nonetheless, women gave, and did so before the men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Most moving, though, by far is the cryptic verse: He [Betzalel] made the copper washstand and its copper base out of the mirrors of the dedicated women [<em>ha-tzove\u2019ot<\/em>] who congregated at the entrance of the Communion Tent. [Ex. 38: 8]<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sages (in Midrash Tanhuma) told a story about this. The Egyptians sought not merely to enslave, but also to put an end to, the people of Israel. One way of doing so was to kill all male children. Another was simply to interrupt normal family life. The people, both men and women, were labouring all day. At night, says the Midrash, they were forbidden to return home. They slept where they worked. The intention was to destroy both privacy and sexual desire, so that the Israelites would have no more children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The women realised this, and decided to frustrate Pharaoh\u2019s plan. They used mirrors to make themselves attractive to their husbands. The result was that intimate relations resumed. The women conceived and had children (the \u201clegions\u201d referred to in the word tzove\u2019ot). Only because of this was there a new generation of Jewish children. The women, by their faith, courage and ingenuity, secured Jewish survival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story tells us, as do so many other midrashim, that without the faith of women, Jews and Judaism would never have survived. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Mirrors of Love, Covenant &amp; Conversation, Vayakhel-Pekudei<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(5772)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image:\u00a0<em>Miriam<\/em>,\u00a0After Sir Edward John Poynter,\u00a0Dalziels&#8217; Bible Gallery,\u00a0Dalziel Brothers \/ 1864\u201381 \/ 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