{"id":54324,"date":"2019-04-25T14:36:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=54324"},"modified":"2022-11-17T19:39:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:39:31","slug":"where-in-the-world-is-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/where-in-the-world-is-dan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhere In The World Is\u2026. Dan?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to our chapter (beginning in verse 40), the allotment of the tribe of Dan was situated near the center of the Land of Israel. Indeed some of the places named therein continue to resonate today, including Tzar`ah and Eshta`ol (v. 40, which we will reencounter in the saga of Samson) and `Ir Shemesh (probably Beit Shemesh), which are well-known sites in the \u201ccorridor\u201d leading from Jerusalem westward to the coastal plain.<\/span><\/p>\n

For that matter, so is Sha`albin (42), today a kibbutz and yeshivah not far from Ben Gurion Airport. Yehud and B\u2019nai B\u2019raq (45) are exits on Israel\u2019s north-south Route 4, and even Gat Rimon (same verse) could be construed as an anagram of nearby Ramat Gan. The Yarkon River and Jaffa are mentioned as well (46) and while we would not expect a reference to Tel Aviv (which was built only in 1909!), vestiges of the Dan settlement survive in the name of the region in which Tel Aviv is situated (Gush Dan) and the fact that the bus cooperative that serves Israel\u2019s largest city is likewise named Dan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The chapter, however, also includes an account of how Dan conquered a northern site named Leshem, slew its inhabitants, and renamed it Dan, after their eponymous ancestor (47). Curiously, an identical account, occurring after the death of Joshua, is narrated in Judges 18:27 ff. (save for the substitution of Layish for Leshem, a change that can be accounted for in Hebrew philology). If the tribe of Dan waged but a single campaign of conquest, why are there two iterations, and if its conquest of Leshem was not part and parcel of its divinely ordained allocation, how was it justified? Medieval exegetes addressed both issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashi wrote that \u201cAt this point, they took only a small portion, but the lot also fell for them in another place which was distant from their boundary.\u201d It was only after the other tribes completed the conquest of the intervening territory that Dan was able to move northward and conclude its own settlement. Rashi\u2019s disciple Yosef Kara took a slightly different tack, arguing that their initial settlement was insufficient for their needs, so they sought to expand their territory, choosing Leshem because of its name, meaning jacinth, which was the stone on the high-priest\u2019s breastplate on which the name of their tribe was inscribed (Exodus 28:19).<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, this is why the most northern nature reserve in Israel is called Tel Dan.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":54325,"id":54325,"title":"jo19-dan map","filename":"jo19-dan-map.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo19-dan-map.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/where-in-the-world-is-dan\/jo19-dan-map\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jo19-dan-map","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":54324,"date":"2019-04-25 11:35:55","modified":"2019-04-25 11:36:13","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":280,"height":314,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo19-dan-map-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo19-dan-map-268x300.jpg","medium-width":268,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo19-dan-map.jpg","medium_large-width":280,"medium_large-height":314,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo19-dan-map.jpg","large-width":280,"large-height":314,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo19-dan-map.jpg","1536x1536-width":280,"1536x1536-height":314,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo19-dan-map.jpg","2048x2048-width":280,"2048x2048-height":314,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo19-dan-map.jpg","post_full_size-width":280,"post_full_size-height":314,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo19-dan-map.jpg","home_baner-width":280,"home_baner-height":314}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"\u201cWhere In The World Is\u2026. 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