{"id":48430,"date":"2019-01-29T18:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=48430"},"modified":"2022-08-23T17:56:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:56:06","slug":"implicit-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/implicit-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Implicit Tensions"},"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":[483,414,363,397],"acf":{"old_id":"48430","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34004,"related_cahpter":"144","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A woman\u2019s view, a woman\u2019s voice","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rashi questions why Moses takes the case of the daughters of Tzelofchad immediately to God. The simplest answer is, Because he could not answer it himself: the law eluded him, was <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hidden\u2014nit&#8217;alma<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014from him. This fit of forgetting is a punishment for the tone of superiority in Moses&#8217; long-ago words, in which he seemed to set himself up as the ultimate authority on the law. (It is striking that <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">takrivun<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;you shall bring to me&#8221;\u2014is the same expression used in our narrative of the &#8220;approach&#8221; of the sisters to Moses for a legal decision.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there is another possibility: in this case, Moses loses the privilege of &#8220;having the Torah written through him&#8221;\u2014&#8221;by his hand&#8221;\u2014directly. Instead, the five sisters are granted that privilege; they are the catalysts of a page in Torah\u2014in a sense, they are accredited with its authorship. To author is to initiate, to authorize, to assume responsibility. To have a section of Torah written through one&#8217;s agency is a privilege that the women, in this case, take over from Moses. The sense of an implicit tension between Moses and the five sisters \u2014his loss is their gain\u2014is carried over into the next passage. &#8220;Their eye saw what Moses&#8217; eye did not see.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The theme of tension between Moses and the five sisters is, perhaps surprisingly, to be found in many midrashic sources. For instance, in <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midrash Rabbah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the women refuse to marry anyone who is not appropriate (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hagun<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) for them. God brings the women into Moses&#8217; field so as to chasten any pride he might take in his own sexual abstinence. By force of their very being, they bring a moral perspective that in a sense makes Moses&#8217; self-control less remarkable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even more eloquently, the following section in the midrash relates another version of the story about the law that is hidden from Moses. It eludes him. In the end, God charges him with hubris in his declaration, &#8220;What is too hard for you, bring to me!&#8221; And then God seemingly taunts Moses: &#8220;The law that you don&#8217;t know, women discuss it!&#8221; The sarcasm slights Moses with its implication of &#8220;Even women &#8230;&#8221; This is, at least, the obvious way to read the midrash, again implying tension between Moses and the sisters. And yet, as we shall see later, there is another possibility: without sarcasm, God may be making a factual observation about the difference between Moses&#8217; vision and theirs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpted from: \u00a0<em>Bewilderments<\/em>, Schocken Books, 2017, p.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">265 &#8211; 267 <\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":92645,"id":92645,"title":"pro15-women praying","filename":"pro15-women-praying.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/jerusalem-building-and-rebuilding\/pro15-women-praying\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"pro15-women-praying","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":92644,"date":"2021-05-02 19:24:57","modified":"2022-08-23 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