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In our chapter, the Prophet Amos repeats the pattern phrase: \u201cFor three transgressions\u2026 and for four\u201d eight times. In the last occurrence, Israel is to be punished: \u201cBecause they have sold for silver, those whose cause was just, and the needy (<\/span>evyon<\/span><\/em>) for a pair of shoes\u201d (2:6).<\/span><\/p>\n

Here, according to its biblical context, \u201c<\/span>evyon<\/span><\/em>\u201d refers to \u201cthe needy\u201d in general. However, the Midrash (Tanhuma Vayeshev 2, Pirqey de-Rabbi Eliezer 38) understands that this phrase refers to Joseph who was sold by his brothers to passing Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver (Genesis 37:28). When a group of Ishmaelites passed by, they [Joseph\u2019s brothers] said to each other: \u201cCome, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites\u2026\u201d (37:27). [Joseph\u2019s brothers] sold him for twenty pieces of silver. Each one [of the ten brothers] thus received two pieces of silver with which to buy shoes for themselves. But, how could such a handsome youth as Joseph be sold for only twenty pieces of silver?! When Joseph was thrown into the pit, out of fear of snakes and scorpions, the radiance of his face had changed, the blood had drained from it, so that his face turned green. This is the reason that Joseph\u2019s brothers sold him for only twenty pieces of silver, with which they each purchased shoes for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier Jewish tradition, preserved in The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs (Zebulon 3), records that Zebulon said: \u201cI had no share in the price received for Joseph. But Simeon, Gad, and our other brothers accepted the money, bought shoes for themselves, their wives, and their children\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of July this year (2020), in observing Tisha B\u2019Av, the medieval lament \u201cArzei Ha-Levanon\u201d (by the 13<\/span>th<\/span> century liturgical poet Meir ben Yechiel) will again be recited in Ashkenazi synagogues. It describes in detail the executions of the \u201cTen Martyrs\u201d by the Romans after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. This piyyut is based on Midrash Asarah Harugey Ha-Malkhut (Otzar Ha-Midashim, ed. Eisenstein, Volume 2, p. 444), which preserves a curious tale of a Roman ruler, who found in the Torah: \u201cHe who kidnaps a man\u2026shall be put to death\u201d (Shemot 21:16, see also Deuteronomy 24:7). He ordered that the palace be filled with shoes and called to ten great sages. He said to them: According to your Scripture, your forefathers who sold their brother Joseph for shoes should have been put to death! From that time until now, you are the ten greatest sages in Israel. So, you must accept on yourselves the judgement of God and die for the sin of the ten brothers of Joseph. Indeed, if they were still alive today, I would judge them before you. But, in their stead, you will bear their sin of selling Joseph for shoes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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