{"id":70612,"date":"2020-02-23T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T15:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=70612"},"modified":"2023-10-16T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:56:47","slug":"dream-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/dream-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream, Dream\u2026"},"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":[439,361,627],"acf":{"old_id":"70612","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":42746,"related_cahpter":"423","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Dreams of straw and of grain\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is a dream? Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch explains that the Hebrew root ch.l.m. \u2013 means \u201cconnect disparate elements into functioning whole.\u201d In his Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, he brings five words: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ach\u2019lama<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is a kind of quartz (amethyst); <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chalamish<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a granite, pressed stone; <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chelmon<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is the egg yolk; <em>hachlamah,\u00a0<\/em>healing, restoring physical balance (based on a verse in Job), and <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chalom<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a dream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, although we have many great dreamers, like Joseph and Jacob, whose dreams are fundamental to our story, the first dreamer in the Torah is not Jewish. After taking Sarah, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, is visited by God who warns him in a dream in the night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our chapter too, God speaks to Jeremiah about the power of dreams. Dreams can be used by the false prophets who \u201cplan to make My people forget My name by means of the dreams which they tell each other.\u201d Dreams can also be used to reveal the true message: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream; and let him who has received My word report My word faithfully! What does straw have to do with grain (23:27-28)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ending is quite surprising: \u2018what does straw have to do with grain\u2019? And what does this statement have to do with dreams? Interestingly, it takes many hundreds of years before this seemingly rhetorical question is answered. In Tractate Berachot (55:a), where there\u2019s a lengthy discussion about dreams and their meanings, stories and experiences, Rabbi Yochanan quotes Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai saying: \u201cJust as it is impossible for the grain to grow without straw, so too it is impossible to dream without idle matters.\u201d Namely, things don\u2019t come in totally pure, unadulterated forms, and even meaningful dreams may include within them some useless, \u2018not yet\u2019 understood pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is especially interesting coming from Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, as if in conversation with the prophet. Rabbi Shimon is the one who upon leaving his life in the cave where he stayed with his son for 12 years, could not stand the world and its imperfections. Is he now learning that maybe there\u2019s room for both grain and straw? How much of either before it\u2019s too much? 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