{"id":60582,"date":"2019-08-04T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T07:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60582"},"modified":"2023-02-26T18:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T16:28:36","slug":"another-jewish-legal-precedent-from-a-biblical-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/another-jewish-legal-precedent-from-a-biblical-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Jewish Legal Precedent From A Biblical Character"},"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":[662,484],"acf":{"old_id":"60582","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"277","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"This time about mourning rites","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our chapter (14:1-20), Joab, the nephew of King David and commander of his army, brings a \u201cwise woman\u201d from Tekoa to persuade David not to take revenge on Absalom for his having killed his own brother Amnon, after he raped their sister, Tamar (see chapter 13). The woman from Tekoa remains unnamed, like the \u201cwise woman\u201d of Abel Beth Maachah, who saves her city from destruction (see 2 Samuel, chapter 20).\u00a0 \u201cWise women\u201d in general are also mentioned in Proverbs 14:1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to convince David not to have his son Absalom killed, Joab tells the wise woman from Tekoa to pretend being in mourning. We are told that \u201cshe came to the king, flung herself face down to the ground, and prostrated herself. She cried out, \u2018Help, O king!\u2019\u201d (2 Samuel 14:4). When David asks what is troubling her, she tells him that she is a widow and that one of her sons had killed her other son. To make the situation sound even more heart-rending, the woman tells the king that her family wants to execute her one remaining son for the murder of his brother. David assures her that \u201cAs the Lord lives, not a hair of your son shall fall to the ground\u201d (verses 5-11). The story that the woman of Tekoa makes up to convince King David to desist from spilling still more of his own family\u2019s blood, is similar in approach to the parable of the ewe-lamb used so effectively by the court prophet Nathan to confront David for having possessed Bathsheba and arranging to have her husband killed in battle (chapters 11-12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To finally achieve the goal of reconciling David with his son Absalom, the dialogue between the woman from Tekoa and the king (verses 4-20) is one of the longest and most detailed in Scripture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rabbinic Sages focus on one detail in our chapter from which they derive a halakhic rule that remains part of traditional Jewish practice. From Joab\u2019s instruction to the woman of Tekoa: \u201cput on mourning clothes,\u201d the Talmud Bavli Moed Qatan 15a derives that \u201cA mourner is forbidden to put on freshly washed clothes.\u201d This Talmudic dictum is the basis for the ruling in the Shulkhan Arukh (Even Ha-Ezer 26:1): \u201cIt is forbidden for a mourner to launder his garment during the entire seven days of mourning, even only in water.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image: Jewish cemetery, by Jan Stuchl\u00edk from Pixabay<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":60587,"id":60587,"title":"2sam14-cemetery","filename":"2sam14-cemetery.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam14-cemetery.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/another-jewish-legal-precedent-from-a-biblical-character\/2sam14-cemetery\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"2sam14-cemetery","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":60582,"date":"2019-08-04 07:55:35","modified":"2019-08-04 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