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It’s easy to sleep right through the 16.2 sqm town of Tonopah Nevada with its mostly monotonous desert views, but a tall sign stands out:<\/span> Mizpah Hotel<\/span><\/a>. Built in 1907, it is a product of the great Nevada silver boom when it was known as the \u201cGrand Old Lady\u201d for its elegant service, comfort, and amenities. The five-story hotel was the tallest building in Nevada until 1929 and featured the first electric elevator west of the Mississippi. What caught my eyes, though, was its name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitzpah is the place where Samuel gathers the People to offer words of rebuke before speaking about the upcoming new king. Radak (R. David Kimchi) writes: \u201cWhy did the people gather there? Because an altar and a \u201c<\/span>beit tefilla<\/span><\/em>\u201d (house of prayer) were there\u201d. Last time they gathered at Mitzpah, they were called to repent before the war with the Philistines which, led by Samuel, they won. Maybe Samuel gathers them here again to remind them that it is not human kingship that will determine their fate but walking in God\u2019s path.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is most likely that this Mitzpah was in the tribe of Benjamin area, associated with two possible high points north of Jerusalem: Tel en-Nasbeh (8 miles away) and Nebi Samuel (4 miles away)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitzpah, which Samson Raphael Hirsch translates as watchtower (from <\/span>tz.p.h<\/span><\/em>.<\/em> to look out), first appears in the Tanach much earlier in the Book of Genesis (31:49) as a mark between Jacob and Laban, his father in law, when Jacob journeys back to the Land of his forefathers. The Vilna Ga\u2019on teaches that Jacob and Laban built a couple of monuments: a <\/span>Gal-ed<\/span><\/em> and the <\/span>Mitzpah<\/span><\/em>. Gal-ed<\/em> from the root of <\/span>g.l.h<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> \u2013 to reveal, and <\/span>Mitzpah<\/span><\/em> from <\/span>tz.f.n<\/span><\/em>. to hide (like <\/span>Tzafun<\/span><\/em> at the Pesach Seder, when we look for the <\/span>Afikoman<\/span><\/em>), symbolic of the need to set boundaries. This Mitzpah was most likely in Gilead, on the eastern side of the Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n

For some, the word \u201c<\/span>Mizpah<\/span><\/a>\u201d has come to connote an emotional bond between people who are separated (either physically or by death). There is Mizpah jewelry which is often made in the form of a coin-shaped pendant cut in two with a zig-zag line bearing the words “The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Samuel must have had the same hope: to bring the people together for a better future ahead. <\/span><\/p>\n

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