{"id":48992,"date":"2019-02-09T22:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=48992"},"modified":"2022-09-04T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T05:18:00","slug":"what-does-bukki-ben-yogli-have-to-teach-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-does-bukki-ben-yogli-have-to-teach-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Bukki Ben Yogli Have to Teach Us?"},"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":[475,363,746],"acf":{"old_id":"48992","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34011,"related_cahpter":"151","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A little midrash in the spirit of the approaching holiday of Purim","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apparently, not only us moderns search rather desperately for interest or entertainment in the less riveting parts of the Tanakh. The lists of names in particular are ripe for creative midrashim, riffs on possible associative or symbolic meanings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of these is the chieftain of the tribe of Dan, Bukki ben Yogli (v. 22). I think the rabbis were as charmed as we might be by this unlikely name (that appears only here). The children of Tel Aviv certainly are, for it is the name of a small side street* near Dizengoff Center, which of course they call &#8211; Bukki ben Mowgli (a character who really should appear in the Jungle Book\u2019s sequel\u2026).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A \u201cdrash\u201d on this name (probably Chassidic, but I don\u2019t know the source) says that it is from Bukki ben Yogli that we should learn how to relate to our liquor. Yes &#8211; how to drink. Which makes it particularly apt right now in the weeks leading up to Purim. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We learn this wisdom not from his behavior, which is lost in the mists of history, but from the name itself. Bukki is reminiscent of the Hebrew word for bottle &#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bakbuk <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(and indeed is also Hebrew baby talk for bottle). And Yogli, leads to thoughts of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gil<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gilah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; joy, merriment. So the lesson is that in all things alcohol related we need to be true to the name. We should raise a glass, and down it, as a celebration of a joyous occasion or event. We shouldn\u2019t go to the bottle looking to improve our mood. Our drinking should be Bukki ben Yogli, the joy should beget the drinking, not Yogli ben Bukki &#8211; getting ersatz merriment from the depths of the bottle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lesson to remember &#8211; unless of course it\u2019s Purim, in which case you\u2019re allowed to drink enough for those fine points to get blurred&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*What did Bukki ben Yogli do to deserve a street in his honor in the first Hebrew City? Nothing &#8211; it was the chosen pen name of Yehuda Leib Katznelson (1846-1917), Russian-Jewish doctor and publicist of Hebrew literature.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":48993,"id":48993,"title":"num34-buki2","filename":"num34-buki2.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/num34-buki2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-does-bukki-ben-yogli-have-to-teach-us\/num34-buki2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"num34-buki2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":48992,"date":"2019-02-09 20:43:38","modified":"2019-02-09 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