{"id":56534,"date":"2019-06-01T23:52:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=56534"},"modified":"2022-12-25T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T06:54:32","slug":"it-wasnt-sadie-hawkins-day-at-shiloh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/it-wasnt-sadie-hawkins-day-at-shiloh\/","title":{"rendered":"It Wasn&#8217;t Sadie Hawkins Day at Shiloh"},"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":[516,522,600],"acf":{"old_id":"56534","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"232","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Let them ambush our women - that\u2019s sounds like a good idea...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mishnah declares:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No festivals were as joyous to Israel as 15 Av and Yom HaKippurim, on which the young women of Jerusalem would turn out in borrowed white clothes in order not to embarrass anyone who had no [finery] of their own\u2026 They would dance in the vineyards calling to the young men: Look up and choose! Pay no mind to wealth but to family\u2026 (Ta`anit 4:8)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the dates were chosen for symbolic value\u2014on 15 Av, the last of the generation that was fated to die in the wilderness passed, and Yom HaKippurim, the day on which the second set of tablets was delivered, marking the start of Israel\u2019s redemption after the sin of the golden calf\u2014the pageant itself seems to be patterned after the events described in this, the closing chapter of the Book of Judges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we noted at the close of the previous chapter, the few surviving Benjaminites were facing extinction as a tribe because of two factors: The first, implicit, is that only men survived the civil war, and the second, explicit, was that the remaining tribes took an oath not to give their daughters in marriage to Benjaminites (v.1). When the Israelites experienced regret over this alarming prospect, they resorted to a legal circumvention: Since the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were not present when the oath was taken, they were technically not bound by it, so 400 of their unmarried women were given to the Benjaminites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, since there were at least 600 (and perhaps as many as 1,000) Benjaminite men who needed wives\u2014as we calculated at the end of the previous chapter\u2014another stratagem had to be adopted. The Benjaminites were advised to set up an ambush (the very same strategy that had been their undoing at Gibeah, cf. 20:29) and when the young women of Shiloh came out to dance in the vineyards, they were to take them to be their wives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not at all an acceptable strategy from the perspective of an age of #MeToo, but clearly passable in that early patriarchal era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld, <em>Benjaminites seize wives from Shiloh<\/em>, woodcut, 1860 \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":56535,"id":56535,"title":"jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern","filename":"jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/it-wasnt-sadie-hawkins-day-at-shiloh\/jud21-shiloh-schnorr_von_carolsfeld_bibel_in_bildern\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jud21-shiloh-schnorr_von_carolsfeld_bibel_in_bildern","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":56534,"date":"2019-06-01 20:52:35","modified":"2019-06-01 20:52:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":654,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern-300x245.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":245,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern-768x628.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":628,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","large-width":800,"large-height":654,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":654,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":654,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern.png","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":654,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jud21-shiloh-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern-514x420.png","home_baner-width":514,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"It Wasn't Sadie Hawkins Day at Shiloh","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Let them ambush our women - 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