{"id":54140,"date":"2019-04-22T00:07:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=54140"},"modified":"2022-11-13T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T11:12:42","slug":"how-to-capture-the-city-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/how-to-capture-the-city-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Capture The City Of The Book"},"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":[497,730,410,600],"acf":{"old_id":"54140","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34235,"related_cahpter":"202","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Turning a warrior into a scholar in the process \u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter contains one of the great moments inspiring the Rabbinic reimagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caleb, the legendary Jewish spy, wants to drive out the inhabitants from the land given to him by God, and offers his daughter Akhsa to the man who attacks and captures Kiryat Sefer. Up to the task is Othniel son Kenaz, Caleb\u2019s half-brother. After the victory Othniel comes to greet his half-niece bride. She approaches Othniel, inducing him to request more land from her father. Caleb, wondering what is going on, turns to his daughter \u201cwhat is the matter?\u201d Displeased with the dry land of the Negev, she asks her father for springs to irrigate the arid land. Her request is granted; Caleb gives them the upper and lower Gulloth springs to irrigate the dry lands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rabbis reimagine the story as not about capturing a physical city, but rather about recalling 3,000 laws that were forgotten during the period of mourning for Moses. Othniel through his great powers of wisdom, reasoning and memory reconstructs these laws, thereby capturing this \u201ccity of the book.\u201d (Kiryat Sefer in Hebrew means city of the book). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Akhsa however is not pleased that her father is marrying her off to \u201cdry land,\u201d suggesting that Othniel is a Torah scholar, but has no means of supporting her financially. Her father responds by telling her that I gave you a man with both upper springs (Torah scholarship) and lower springs (financial support). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rabbis couldn\u2019t envision Othniel as simply a great warrior: the first of the judges, the son-in-law of Caleb, had to have been a great scholar. \u00a0They recast the story into a mold that fits their ideal form of a Jewish leader. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadly, their narrative recasts Akhsa as a donkey (in the tale she gets off a donkey) who \u201ccries out when there is no food in her pen.\u201d Looking back on Rabbinic reimagination, I see Akhsa as a woman of great intelligence, foresight, and gumption. She does not blindly agree to her father\u2019s dream. 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