{"id":44286,"date":"2018-11-19T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=44286"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:30:01","slug":"bringing-everyone-to-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/bringing-everyone-to-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Everyone To The Table"},"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":[415,736,387],"acf":{"old_id":"44286","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34235,"related_cahpter":"93","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Eating together might involve personal sacrifice - but can bring peace","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter introduces a new sacrifice, the \u201c<em>sh&#8217;lamim<\/em>.\u201d The rabbis translated \u201c<em>sh&#8217;lamim<\/em>\u201d as peace offering (\u201c<em>sh&#8217;lamim<\/em>\u201d from the root \u201cshalom\u201d) because it is divided between all parties. The blood and fats are burned on God\u2019s altar, the chest and hind legs are given to the priests, and the rest of the meat and the skin to the person\/s who brought the sacrifice. A <em>sh&#8217;lamim<\/em> results in everyone walking away with something, and that spreads peace. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not that they should walk away: the medieval commentator Rabbi Yosef Bechor Shor adds that the way of peace is that everyone sits together and eats. This simple idea, sitting together to break bread, is one with a long and troubled history in the Tanach. Many generations earlier Jacob didn\u2019t invite his exhausted brother Esau to sit with him and eat, but rather traded some lentil soup for Esau\u2019s birthright. His children were able to sit together and eat, but only after they stripped Joseph of his coat of many colors and threw him into a pit. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>cover illustration: Photagraphee.eu (shutterstock_693458353)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brothers were unable to speak peacefully with Joseph, any conversation would end with a fight or argument, and so finally with him out of the way they sit and peacefully picnic together. I always wondered about this meal. Did they eat within earshot of the pit? Did they hear his screams and cries? His desperate pleas to save him from a painfully slow death of starvation? They imagined they had finally achieved peace, but in time they would be the ones suffering due to famine whereas Joseph had control of all the food in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadly, sitting together and eating is complex for too many Jews today as well. Whether it be the kashrut wars between different agencies, Jewish community dinners that don\u2019t serve kosher food, or people who will not eat at the home of friends or relatives because the food isn\u2019t kosher enough, there are too many instances where eating divides rather than unites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shelamim serves as an incredible model. 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