{"id":51253,"date":"2019-03-12T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=51253"},"modified":"2022-10-04T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:33:33","slug":"putting-an-end-to-favoritism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/putting-an-end-to-favoritism\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting An End To Favoritism"},"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":[364,563,490,354],"acf":{"old_id":"51253","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"174","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"In this case, personal example is not to be followed","content":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf a man has two wives, one loved, the other unloved [<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">senuah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">], and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the unloved one, when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the loved one in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the unloved one. He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father\u2019s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him\u201d (21:15\u201317).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Hebrew, this passage is saturated with linguistic evocations of Genesis and the rivalry between Leah and Rachel and their respective sons. The same key word, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">senuah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u2018unloved\u2019, appears in both, and these are the only occurrences of the word in the Pentateuch. The phrase \u2018first sign of his father\u2019s strength\u2019 is the same as that used by Jacob on his deathbed, referring to Reuben, Leah\u2019s (and his) firstborn (Gen. 49:3\u20134). The reference to \u2018double share\u2019 recalls Jacob\u2019s words to Joseph, firstborn of his beloved Rachel, \u2018To you I gave one portion more than to your brothers\u2019 (48:22). He does this by giving Joseph\u2019s two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, the status of tribes in their own right (48:5). The intertextuality of the two passages is unmistakable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So is the implication: Jacob\u2019s behaviour is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>not<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to become normative for his descendants. What he did then, is now forbidden. <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are to be no more dramas of chosen and rejected sons, preferential treatment, favoritism, and the psycho-dynamics of sibling rivalry<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deuteronomy brings belated closure to the narratives of Genesis. No more will the younger usurp the older.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not in God\u2019s Name<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>,<\/em> p.176-177<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image: Benjamin West,\u00a0<em>Jacob Blessing Ephraim and Manasseh<\/em>, detail, 1766-68 \/ wikimedia<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":51255,"id":51255,"title":"dt21-Jacob_Blessing_Ephraim_and_Manasseh,_by_Benjamin_West","filename":"dt21-Jacob_Blessing_Ephraim_and_Manasseh_by_Benjamin_West.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt21-Jacob_Blessing_Ephraim_and_Manasseh_by_Benjamin_West.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/putting-an-end-to-favoritism\/dt21-jacob_blessing_ephraim_and_manasseh_by_benjamin_west\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt21-jacob_blessing_ephraim_and_manasseh_by_benjamin_west","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":51253,"date":"2019-03-12 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