{"id":77080,"date":"2020-07-08T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=77080"},"modified":"2020-07-08T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:14:41","slug":"those-shoes-were-made-for-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/those-shoes-were-made-for-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Shoes Were Made For Walking"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"77080","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":76082,"related_cahpter":"520","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Sins of callousness leading to suffering and exile\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Genesis 37 tells the unsettling story of the sale of Joseph as a slave by his jealous and resentful brothers. The Midrash (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tanchuma<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2) relates that in exchange for Joseph, each of the brothers received two silver coins, which they used to purchase shoes. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yalkut Shimoni<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Vayeshev 142) cites in reference to this incident the verse from Amos (2:6) in which the prophet censures the Israelites \u201cfor their having sold a righteous person for money; a poor person for shoes.\u201d The rabbis<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interpreted this verse as an allusion to the sale of Joseph, in exchange for whom the brothers received money for new shoes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The obvious question arises as to why the rabbis<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">found it significant that the brothers purchased shoes with the money received in exchange for Joseph. Would their crime be judged any differently if they had used the funds for another commodity?\u00a0 Does it really matter how they invested the ill-begotten money?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One possibility, perhaps, is that the rabbis<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seek to magnify the brothers\u2019 crime by contrasting the triviality of purchasing shoes with the severity of their act. They condemned their younger brother to a life of slavery and suffering \u2013 all for just a pair of shoes. For Joseph, the consequence of this transaction (at least as foreseen at the time) was lifelong misery, torment and shame; for the brothers, it resulted in new pairs of shoes. The Midrash emphasizes the sheer callousness of this act, as the brothers casually approached this transaction as simply an ordinary financial venture, paying no heed to its lifelong implications for Joseph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, however, it has been suggested that the rabbis here use the term \u201cshoes\u201d allegorically, as a reference to the shoes which the brothers wore some twenty years later when they went to Egypt to purchase grain.\u00a0 By selling Joseph, the brothers paved the way for their family\u2019s exile, as Joseph ultimately rose to the position of Egyptian vizier, becoming the person responsible for the mass distribution of grain during the drought that struck the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph&#8217;s brothers thought that they brought greater stability to the family by eliminating the member that had caused strife and resentment. But in truth, in ways that they could not possibly have foreseen at the time, the sale resulted in the \u201cshoes\u201d worn on their way to Egypt, where they would begin the long, sorrowful chapter of subjugation and persecution in exile. They thought they were sending Joseph into Egyptian slavery, whereas this crime in fact sent them and their descendants into Egyptian slavery. The rabbis therefore emphasized that through this transaction the brothers acquired \u201cshoes\u201d \u2013 they facilitated their own eventual relocation in Egypt and the onset of bitter persecution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Rabbi David Silverberg for hatanakh.com<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":77081,"id":77081,"title":"amos2-shoes","filename":"amos2-shoes.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos2-shoes.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/those-shoes-were-made-for-walking\/amos2-shoes\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"amos2-shoes","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77080,"date":"2020-07-08 11:14:18","modified":"2020-07-08 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