{"id":49204,"date":"2019-02-11T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=49204"},"modified":"2022-09-05T09:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:08:18","slug":"an-inheritance-of-ones-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/an-inheritance-of-ones-own\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inheritance Of One\u2019s Own"},"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":[444,373,405],"acf":{"old_id":"49204","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36423,"related_cahpter":"153","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The space where what came before can be properly held in the name of a better and fairer future","content":"<p>Inheritance is a strange idea. \u2018To inherit\u2019 is a verb, but it\u2019s a passive one. It is an achievement of status rather than of striving, as the law conveys wealth intergenerationally by virtue of will and testament, the swift or shaky signature of the pen. It always relies on one man (or woman) enjoying the fruits of another\u2019s labor and severs the connection between work and reward. It ensures a lag time between merit and outcome, while also preserving the status quo on an inter-generational canvas.<\/p>\n<p>Many things can be inherited. Family assets, ancestral lands, a well curated library and a tangled chest of jewels. Many things cannot; a memory, a touch, the glimpse of a smile and the dream of a dance. Inheritance is that most private of things, passed down along the branches of a family tree and excluding the rest of the world, no matter how destitute or deserving. It inscribes inequality into the order of things and insulates it from a world that clamors for greater justice, more equitable distribution.<\/p>\n<p>From another angle, inheritance is all that we have in common- language, culture, a planet of eroding riches and escalating dangers. It is the shoulders of giants from whose vantage point we can most clearly see the possibilities that constitute our mutual estate.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s chapter shows us the inheritances that must be fought for, the histories that need to be grappled to the ground for the present to come into its own. Women have had to do this work for millennia, to lay claim to not only the wealth that is theirs but to what Virginia Woolf memorably called a Room of One\u2019s Own, the space where what came before can be properly held in the name of a better and fairer future. An inheritance without this alchemy is inert. 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