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In our chapter, Moses relates God\u2019s instruction as follows: <\/span><\/p>\n

…Charge the people as follows: You will be passing through the territory of your kinsmen, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. Though they will be afraid of you, be very careful not to provoke them. For I will not give you of their land so much as a foot can tread on; I have given the hill country of Seir as a possession to Esau (Deut. 2:1-6). <\/span><\/p>\n

The Midrash (Tanhuma Buber, Addition to Parashat Devarim 3; Song of Songs Rabbah 1:36 — 1:3.5) elaborates on this biblical warning that the Israelites should not \u2013 at least at this time \u2013 engage their kinsmen, the descendants of Esau (the brother of Jacob) in military conflict. A homily in typical <\/span>petikhta<\/span><\/em>, \u201cproem\u201d form, opens with a seemingly unrelated verse, here from the Song of Songs (2:7): \u201cI adjure you, O Daughters of Jerusalem\u2026\u201d. To midrashically link this verse to the warning against military conflict in our Chapter, our midrash continues: Rabbi Levi said, \u201cI adjure you\u2026\u201d is repeated four times (in the Song of Songs, see also 3:5, 5:8 and 8:4) to warn against engaging in military conflict with any of the Four Kingdoms (that have ruled over Israel \u2013 Babylonia, Media\/Persia, Greece, Rome [i.e. Edom, the descendants of Esau]\u2014see Daniel 7:1, Leviticus Rabbah 13:5). <\/span><\/p>\n

But this warning may be understood as addressed not only specifically to the \u201cDaughters of Jerusalem\u201d (Benot Yerushalayim). For this expression can be read \u201cBonot Yerushalayim\u201d \u2013 those [women!] who build up Jerusalem. And, to what extent will Jerusalem be \u201cbuilt up\u201d? In the future the Holy One, blessed be He, will make Jerusalem into a \u201cMetropolin\u201d [i.e. metropolis — a Greek loanword meaning originally \u201cmother-city\u201d] for the whole world [compare Philo, In Flaccum 46, Legatio 281]. <\/span><\/p>\n

And indeed, this process seems already to have begun, as it were, in our day. The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics regards \u201cGreater Jerusalem\u201d — officially termed a \u201cMetropolin\u201d — encompassing the core city of East and West Jerusalem and its surrounding suburban areas. So perhaps the day is not far off when Jerusalem will indeed become the worldwide \u201cMother-City\u201d that \u201cunto it shall flow all nations\u201d (Isaiah 2:2).<\/span><\/p>\n

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