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SHIMON and LEVI, <\/b>Defendants-Appellants<\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n
ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT<\/b><\/p>\r\n
OF THE CANAANI, CHIVI, AND PERIZZI<\/b><\/p>\r\n
BRIEF FOR THE APPELLANTS<\/b><\/p>\r\n
QUESTION PRESENTED<\/b><\/p>\r\n
The court below convicted the Appellants of first-degree murder. The Question Presented is whether the defense of \u201cjustifiable homicide\u201d and other factual circumstances entitled the Appellants to acquittal on all charges or, at least, on the allegation that they committed murder in the first degree.<\/span><\/p>\r\nARGUMENT<\/b><\/p>\r\n
I.<\/b><\/p>\r\n
KILLING \u201cIN THE HEAT OF PASSION\u201d<\/b><\/p>\r\n
IS, AT MOST, VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER<\/b><\/p>\r\n
The evidence did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Appellants lacked legal \u201cjustification\u201d for their actions. Their sister had been raped and was being held prisoner by Shechem, Hamor, and their cohorts. The Appellants conspired to weaken those who held Dinah, but their objective was to free her. Although the Appellants\u2019 brothers took booty from the city and from the victims, the Appellants did not. Hence their conduct was committed in the \u201cheat of passion\u201d and was, at most, voluntary manslaughter.<\/span><\/p>\r\nII.<\/b><\/p>\r\n
DEADLY FORCE WAS NECESSARY TO SECURE<\/b><\/p>\r\n
THE RELEASE OF APPELLANTS\u2019 KIDNAPPED AND RAPED SISTER<\/b><\/p>\r\n
AND TO PROTECT THE APPELLANTS\u2019 FATHER<\/b><\/p>\r\n
Evidence established that the followers of Shechem came to their ruler\u2019s defense with force (<\/span>Or HaChaim<\/span><\/em>), and that they intended to kill the Appellants\u2019 father Jacob and seize his assets (<\/span>Malbim<\/span><\/em>). Hence the Appellants could not secure Dinah\u2019s release or their father\u2019s safety without battling and killing all the males of the city, including Shechem and Hamor. The Appellants were engaged in self-defense, as well as in a legitimate effort to secure the release of a captive.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIII.<\/b><\/p>\r\n
SHECHEM AND HIS FOLLOWERS WERE TOTALLY<\/b><\/p>\r\n
LAWLESS AND WERE LEGALLY \u201cPIRATES\u201d SUBJECT TO DEATH<\/b><\/p>\r\n
Shechem was the ruler of a totally lawless society that failed to punish wrongdoers, including his son Hamor (<\/span>Rambam<\/span><\/em>).<\/span> Hence he and his followers were enemies of mankind, as the US Supreme Court characterized pirates in an 1844 decision (<\/span>Harmony v. United States<\/span><\/em>, 43 U.S. 210, 232): \u201c[A] pirate is <\/span>hostis humani generis<\/em> <\/span>because he commits hostilities upon the subjects and property of any or all nations, without any regard to right or duty, or any pretense of public authority.\u201d The killing of pirates while they are engaged in piracy is not punishable homicide.<\/span><\/p>\r\nCONCLUSION<\/b><\/p>\r\n
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\r\n<\/span>Dinah
\r\n<\/span>Never talks anymore.
\r\n<\/span>Not to me.
\r\n<\/span>Not to anyone.<\/span><\/p>\r\nWhen we were little, we used to play \u2018house\u2019 together.
\r\n<\/span>Father would carve dolls from wood;
\r\n<\/span>Dinah would give me the boy doll
\r\n<\/span>Which we called \u2018Abraham\u2019,
\r\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And she would take the girl doll, \u2018Sarah;\u2019
\r\n<\/span>The dolls would eat sand-pies together
\r\n<\/span>Sitting on sand-stools, before going to sleep in sand-beds.
\r\n<\/span>She would place the baby doll, \u2018Isaac,\u2019 in the toy cradle
\r\n<\/span>Father made for her, and sing lullabies to him,
\r\n<\/span>Then dress him in a coat of many colors that Aunt Leah sewed for the dolls.
\r\n<\/span>My brothers would laugh at me and call me a sissy,
\r\n<\/span>But I didn\u2019t care, as long as Dinah agreed to play with me.<\/span><\/p>\r\nFather would teach all of us each morning.
\r\n<\/span>But after my brothers ran out to wrestle or play ball or hunt birds,
\r\n<\/span>Dinah and I would stay behind together with Father
\r\n<\/span>And he would answer all our questions:
\r\n<\/span>\u201cWhy don\u2019t sheaves of wheat learn how to kneel?
\r\n<\/span>Why don\u2019t stars know how to bow?
\r\n<\/span>Why doesn\u2019t the sun turn blue or red?
\r\n<\/span>Why doesn\u2019t the moon stay full?\u201d
\r\n<\/span>Father would gently stroke Dinah\u2019s hair, or rest his hand on my shoulder,
\r\n<\/span>And answer everything.
\r\n<\/span>Only to Dinah\u2019s question, \u201cWhy do people hurt other people?\u201d
\r\n<\/span>He had no answer.<\/span><\/p>\r\nBut now,
\r\n<\/span>When I go to Dinah every evening, she asks no questions.
\r\n<\/span>She doesn\u2019t speak.
\r\n<\/span>Doesn\u2019t even nod.<\/span><\/p>\r\nFather thinks it\u2019s hopeless.
\r\n<\/span>But I don\u2019t give up.
\r\n<\/span>I talk.
\r\n<\/span>Maybe she hears something.
\r\n<\/span>Maybe she listens.<\/span><\/p>\r\nThis morning I found the old dolls
\r\n<\/span>And I\u2019ve decided to bring them to Dinah.
\r\n<\/span>I will be \u2018Abraham\u2019 again, she \u2018Sarah,\u2019
\r\n<\/span>Maybe this way she\u2019ll talk to me.
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\nOnly Father wants me to go up north tomorrow \u00a0\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>And visit my brothers who are tending the flocks.
\r\n<\/span>But as soon as I get back, I will bring the dolls to Dinah.
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But, the text also makes it clear that however it began, he quickly fell for her. (Whether she ever reciprocated - or whether it was an actual rape in the first place and not just described as such to negate Dinah\u2019s possible role in the matter, and to justify the honor killings perpetrated later, are all fertile fodder for the midrashic imagination). <\/span><\/p>\r\nThe text says not only that he loved her, but even <\/span>vatidbak nafsho<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>that \u201chis soul clung to her.\u201d This is the same word used in Genesis 2:24 to describe the ideal relationship between a man and his spouse: \u201cHence a man leaves his father and mother <\/span>vedavak beishto<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\nThe word includes both an emotional component and a physical one, for it is also the same word that is used to describe how Ruth behaved towards Naomi: \u201c<\/span>ve-rut davka bah<\/span><\/em>, and Ruth clung to her\u201d (Ruth 1:14). As for Shechem, nothing could sound more pure and sincere.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the same way that people can cling to each other, a person can cleave to God: \u201cYou must revere the LORD your God: only Him shall you worship, <\/span>ubo tidbak<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> to Him shall you hold fast, and by His name shall you swear\u2026\u201d (Deut 10:20; see also Deut 13:5). And also in a verse known from the liturgy: <\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/i>Ve'atem hadveikim badonai<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> while you, who held fast to the LORD your God, are all alive today\u201d (Deut 4:4).<\/span><\/p>\r\nThe idea of a very physical clinging to God in Kabbalah and Hassidism became an entire theology known as <\/span>dveikut<\/span><\/em>, striving for a transcendent spiritual closeness with God, even a sort of <\/span>unio mystica<\/em> <\/span>with the divine. Another kabbaslitic use of this word, though in a different vein entirely, is when an evil spirit clings to a person, a sort of demonic possession, known as a <\/span>dybbuk<\/span><\/em>, made popular in the play by S. Ans-ky of that name.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAnother fraught, negative use in a very different context is the well-known Psalm 137 (you know, the one by Bob Marley): \u201cBy the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, sat and wept, as we thought of Zion\u2026If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither; <\/span>tidbak leshoni<\/em> <\/span>let my tongue stick to my palate if I cease to think of you\u201d (vv.1,5-6). That meaning is much closer to paralysis than transcendence. <\/span><\/p>\r\nIn Modern Hebrew, as with many spiritually rich traditional terms, the root has been secularized into everyday use. <\/span>