{"id":47741,"date":"2019-01-19T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47741"},"modified":"2022-08-14T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:49:52","slug":"moses-freudian-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/moses-freudian-slip\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses\u2019 Freudian Slip"},"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":[397,386],"acf":{"old_id":"47741","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46929,"related_cahpter":"137","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A surge of anger that betrays deep pain","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Miriam dies in our chapter\u2019s first verse, and the Israelites are left without water, their thirst inspires recalcitrance. God instructs Miriam\u2019s brothers, Moses and Aaron, to speak to a rock in order to procure water, and Moses strikes the rock instead, while excoriating the people for their persistent complaining. Water does indeed spring forth, but God responds by barring the two brothers from ever entering the Promised Land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Moses loses his cool, he calls the Israelites <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">morim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, rebels. A Freudian analysis might say that Moses is projecting, for it is actually he who is disobeying orders. But there is a deeper Freudian slip in Moses\u2019s slip-up: the word <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">morim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is spelled \u05de\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mem-reish-yud- mem<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, just like Miriam\u2019s name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This outburst is not a simple loss of temper but a cry for help. It is a surge of anger that betrays deep pain\u2014a flare of irrationality that subconsciously signals truth. It may sound like the haughty contemptuousness of a leader looking down on the rabble, but it may rather be an instinctively revealed sign that Moses is just like the rest of us and does not wish to be separate from or above the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses\u2019s involuntary invocation of his sister\u2019s name suggests a desire to share his pain\u2014an appeal for empathy from the people, adding his bereavement to the collective angst. Indeed, this yearning for solidarity is on full display when\u2014considering another reading of the word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">morim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014the consummate teacher calls his people <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">teachers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, for acting (out) like the people, Moses is consigned to die with his generation in the wilderness\u2014a punishment that carries some consolation, for an unmarked burial outside the Promised Land precludes the deification of a tomb pilgrimage cult. 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