{"id":60420,"date":"2019-08-01T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60420"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:26:28","slug":"mattot-maasei-shared-fate-places-us-in-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/mattot-maasei-shared-fate-places-us-in-sync\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattot\/Mas’ei:\u00a0 Shared Fate Places Us In Sync"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cJews at least share the same calendar.\u00a0 Think about it \u2013 Christians are so fractured that the different groups don\u2019t even agree on the dates of their major holy days,\u201d our tour guide Shuli Mishkin told us walking towards the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the intermediate days of Passover.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Same calendar, yes; same readings at same time, not always.\u00a0Schedules for the weekly reading of the Torah have diverged between Israel and the Diaspora since the end of Passover, when Israelis recited Leviticus with the portion of Acharei Mot<\/em> on the Sabbath of April 27, while Jews outside Israel read the portion designated for Passover\u2019s eighth day, not celebrated in Israel, where just one day of the holiday suffices. Schedules for reading are being synced once again this week.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why then is the double portion of Matot-Masei the one to mend the rift between the portions Israelis and Diaspora Jews read?\u00a0Two aspects of the portion remind us of those who act so we retain a united destiny and posit a moving belief in a shared fate.\u00a0In Numbers 32, the tribes of Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh elect to remain on one side of the Jordan.\u00a0And yet they vow their fate will be the same as those crossing over in that they will share in responsibilities of war and in fact be the \u201cpioneers\u201d (the verb h-l-tz<\/em> appears seven times in this chapter in 32: 17, 20, 21, 27, 29, 30, 32), and in the vanguard of the warriors. This is the condition for their retention of their land.<\/p>\n

The others concerned about the retention of land are a group of five women, daughters of a man who had no sons.\u00a0It makes sense to have the end of Numbers be the moment to highlight five women who act bravely to ensure continuity, just as Exodus begins with the similar actions of five women<\/a> \u2013 two midwives, mother and sister of Moses and daughter of Pharaoh. Here it is Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noa the daughters of Zelophechad whose case ends the book in chapter 36: 1-13. The love of the land that these sisters had, choosing to bring their case to Moses for judgement (Numbers 27:1 \u2013 11) is the matter that ends the book of Numbers and cements the fact of the Israelites’ right to enter it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fact that five women serve as bookends to leaving Egypt and entering Israel seems proof that for fate to be shared, all members of society, men and women, must have the capacity to both take action as in Exodus and be heard and judged fairly as in Numbers.\u00a0In that way we will create a society in which the stories read will be ones all wish to share.<\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Matot\/Mas'ei 5779","main_caption":"And the 5 women who end the book, yearning for the Land, connect us back to the 5 women who started the whole redemption process in the first place\u2026","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107597,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60420\/revisions\/107597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}