{"id":61580,"date":"2019-08-20T17:32:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61580"},"modified":"2023-03-14T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:28:15","slug":"solomons-heart-of-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/solomons-heart-of-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon\u2019s Heart Of Understanding"},"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":[651,391,838,372],"acf":{"old_id":"61580","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"290","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"In dream and reality","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our chapter, God appears to Solomon in a dream by night and asks what Solomon might request from God. Solomon prays \u201cGrant, then Your servant an understanding mind to judge Your people, to distinguish between good and bad. For who can judge this vast people of Yours?\u201d (1 Kings 3:5-9).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his dream, Solomon says to God that he is not like other human judges. A king of flesh and blood sits in his place of judgment and passes death-sentences for execution by beheading, strangulation, burning or by stoning (see Mishnah Sanhedrin 7:1) and thinks nothing of it. And if the human king, sitting in judgement, could legally render a fine of one sela\u2019, he takes two, or if two, he takes three. And if by law he could render a fine of one dinar, he takes a maneh (100 dinars = 1 maneh). But, says Solomon, I am not like that. If I should wrongly find a person guilty in monetary matters, I would be judged as if I had committed a capital crime, as it says: \u201cDo not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, for the Lord will argue their case and may exact the life of the judge\u201d (Proverbs 22:22-23; Sifre Devarim 9) .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The continuation of our chapter relates the famous story of the Judgement of Solomon (1 Kings 3:16-28). Our chapter presents this rendering of judgement by King Solomon as evidence of his psychological understanding and wise judgement &#8212; \u201cWhen all Israel heard the decision that the king had rendered, they stood in awe of the king; for they saw that he possessed divine wisdom to execute justice\u201d (1 Kings 3:28).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It turns out that the tale of Solomon\u2019s Judgement is one example of a folktale type found in many of the world\u2019s cultures, especially India and the Far East (classified as Aarne-Thompson tale type 926 \u201cChild Custody\u201d). Our biblical story was adapted by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in his 1944 play \u201cThe Caucasian Chalk Circle\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Luca Giordano \u2013 Dream of Solomon \u2013 God promises Solomon Wisdom, c. 1694-1695 \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":61581,"id":61581,"title":"1kings3-Luca_Giordano_-_Dream_of_Solomon","filename":"1kings3-Luca_Giordano_-_Dream_of_Solomon.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Luca_Giordano_-_Dream_of_Solomon.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/solomons-heart-of-understanding\/1kings3-luca_giordano_-_dream_of_solomon\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1kings3-luca_giordano_-_dream_of_solomon","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":61580,"date":"2019-08-20 14:32:19","modified":"2019-08-20 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