{"id":54513,"date":"2019-04-29T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=54513"},"modified":"2022-11-21T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:55:50","slug":"levitical-and-aaronic-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/levitical-and-aaronic-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Levitical And Aaronic Cities"},"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":[430,796,792],"acf":{"old_id":"54513","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"208","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Future homes to priests and prophets - and manslayers","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the previous chapter, we noted that the six cities of refuge were \u201cLevitical cities.\u201d In the present chapter, we discover that there were, all told, 48 such cities. Since the tribe of Levi received no allocation of its own (\u201cthe Lord is his allocation,\u201d Deut. 10:9, 18:2), each of the other tribes ceded some its own cities to Levi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The detailed parceling out of these cities indicates that the guiding principle of their distribution\u2014as noted here by Rashi\u2014was \u201cTake more from a larger [portion] and less from a smaller [portion], each according to his inheritance shall give of his cities to the Levites\u201d (Numbers 35:8). So the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin gave 13 (v.4); Ephraim, Dan, and half of Manasseh gave 10 (v.5); Issachar, Asher, Naftali, and the other half of Manasseh gave 13 (v.6); and Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun gave 12 (v.7).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the Levitical end, the clan of Kehat received 10 cities (v.26), Gershon 13 cities (v.33), and Merari 12 (v.38). But that adds up to only 35 cities, leaving a balance of 13. The resolution to our conundrum comes as a surprise: 13 cities were allocated directly to another clan of Levites, the sons of Aaron (v.19).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of these cities, Anatot (v.18), was to become the home of the Prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 1:1). Another, Gibeon (v.17), reminds us that its indigenous inhabitants were assigned to everlasting service in \u201cthe House of the lord\u201d (Joshua 9:23). Curiously, Nob, the only city to be explicitly called a \u201cpriestly city\u201d (1 Samuel 22:19; according to rabbinic tradition, Nob housed the Tabernacle for 13 years), is not listed in our chapter, leading to speculation that it was not an independent city but an adjunct of Anatot (cf. Isaiah 11: 30-32 and Nehemiah 11:32).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By talmudic law (Makkot 10a), priestly cities, as well as Levitical cities, also served as de facto cities of refuge, maximizing the opportunities for unpremeditated killers to escape the anticipated blood vengeance of the victim\u2019s relatives and minimizing the potential miscarriages of justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":54514,"id":54514,"title":"jo21-Priest-Prophet-King","filename":"jo21-Priest-Prophet-King.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo21-Priest-Prophet-King.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/levitical-and-aaronic-cities\/jo21-priest-prophet-king\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jo21-priest-prophet-king","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":54513,"date":"2019-04-29 14:22:54","modified":"2019-04-29 14:23:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":600,"height":449,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo21-Priest-Prophet-King-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo21-Priest-Prophet-King-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo21-Priest-Prophet-King.jpg","medium_large-width":600,"medium_large-height":449,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo21-Priest-Prophet-King.jpg","large-width":600,"large-height":449,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo21-Priest-Prophet-King.jpg","1536x1536-width":600,"1536x1536-height":449,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo21-Priest-Prophet-King.jpg","2048x2048-width":600,"2048x2048-height":449,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo21-Priest-Prophet-King.jpg","post_full_size-width":600,"post_full_size-height":449,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo21-Priest-Prophet-King-561x420.jpg","home_baner-width":561,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Levitical And Aaronic Cities","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Future homes to priests and prophets - 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