{"id":79472,"date":"2020-08-31T21:38:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=79472"},"modified":"2020-09-01T18:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:29:57","slug":"fringe-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/fringe-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Fringe Benefits"},"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":"79472","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"558","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The nations will ride in on the coattails\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter preserves a series of prophecies on the restoration of Jerusalem in the end of days. This concludes with a vivid description of how the Nations of the World will be drawn to the Holy City: \u201cThus said the Lord of Hosts: Peoples and the inhabitants of many cities shall yet come\u2014the inhabitants of one shall go to the other and say, \u2018Let us go and entreat the favor of the Lord, let us seek the Lord of Hosts; I will go, too\u2019. The many peoples and the multitude of nations shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord. Thus said the Lord of Hosts: In those days, ten men from nations of every tongue will take hold\u2014they will take hold of every Jew (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ish Yehudi<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) by a corner of his cloak and say, \u2018Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you\u2019\u201d (Zechariah 8:20-23). The term Jew (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ish Yehudi<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) here is typical of late Biblical Hebrew (compare Esther 2:5).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sefaria.org\/Midrash_Tanchuma%2C_Bamidbar.3?lang=bi\">Midrash Tanhuma Bamidbar 3<\/a> elaborates on the final verse of our chapter: \u201cIn the future, the Nations of the World shall see how the Holy One, blessed be He, clings to Israel <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and they too shall cling to them saying: \u201c\u2018Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you\u201d (Zechariah 8:23).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rabbinic Sages were particularly attracted to the prophetic description of the non-Jews clinging to the corner of the \u201ccloak\u201d of the \u201cJewish man\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recalling that the \u201cfringes&#8221; (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tzitzit<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) are attached to the corners of the cloak <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(see Numbers 15:38).\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midrash Sifre Bamibar 115 states that of one who fulfills the mitzvah of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tzitzit<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is said: \u201cIn those days, ten men from nations of every tongue will take hold\u2014they will take hold of every Jew by a corner of his cloak and say, \u2018Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you\u201d (Zechariah 8:23).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talmud Bavli Shabbat 32b elaborates on this early midrashic tradition by promising that anyone who is careful in performing the mitzvah of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tzitzit<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> merits that 2,800 servants will serve him in the World to Come. For it says: \u201cThus said the Lord of Hosts: In those days, ten men from nations of every tongue will take hold\u2014they will take hold of every Jew by a corner of his cloak and say, \u2018Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you\u2019\u201d (8:23). 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