{"id":56820,"date":"2019-06-04T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=56820"},"modified":"2022-12-27T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T08:46:15","slug":"the-prayers-of-hannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-prayers-of-hannah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prayers Of Hannah"},"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":[384,882,373,362,437],"acf":{"old_id":"56820","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36149,"related_cahpter":"234","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"An Amichaiian take on prayer and divine-human relations","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first section of 1 Samuel is preoccupied not with the prophet Samuel, rather with his mother, the prophetess Hannah. Hannah\u2019s movements and murmurings fill the page, as she cries and prays for a son, and then prays and gives thanks to God for granting her wish and giving her Samuel. Hannah is a round character who is anything but passive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the biblical commentary submerged in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/218\/post\/55413\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOpen Closed Open\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the late Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai, locates in this perpetual motion \u201cprogression in the prayer of Hannah. From crying out loud with an embittered soul\u2026to crying quietly; and from crying quietly to praying out loud, and from praying out loud to praying quietly \u2013 only her lips moving and she is drunk from the prayer in her body.\u201d Perhaps Amichai\u2019s most interesting comment on this evolution concerns 1 Samuel chapter 2, which he refers to as \u201ca final development: She sits and God prays to her, the prayer of Hannah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an unusual reading, as the text plainly states that it was Hannah who prayed, not God. Apparently, Amichai is riffing off of the way that this text is remembered in Jewish tradition, as \u201cthe prayer of Hannah\u201d (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tefillat Hannah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). The undefined relationship between those two words \u2013 prayer and Hannah \u2013 allows Amichai to suggest that God prayed the prayer of Hannah, thereby expressing the Amichaiian idea that sometimes God prays to people rather than the other way around: \u201cBut when my father prayed, he would stand in his place, erect, motionless, and force God to sway like a reed and pray to him.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What might it mean to think of the Prayer of Hannah as a prayer God directs at Hannah? Theologically, it could express the idea that as a prophetess, the very words that came out Hannah\u2019s mouth in her prayer were in fact Divine. Even more poignantly, thinking about the Prayer of Hannah as God\u2019s prayer reveals how Hannah\u2019s supplication for a son who would go on to lead the Israelites was really a fulfillment of God\u2019s own desire. Indeed, when the verse states \u201cI rejoice in your deliverance\u201d (1 Samuel 2:1), it is genuinely unclear whether it is Hannah rejoicing in God\u2019s deliverance, or the other way around. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Wilhelm Wachtel, <em>Hannah At Prayer<\/em>, before 1942 \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":56821,"id":56821,"title":"isam2-hannah","filename":"isam2-hannah.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam2-hannah.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-prayers-of-hannah\/isam2-hannah\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isam2-hannah","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":56820,"date":"2019-06-04 13:27:55","modified":"2019-06-04 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