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In Gen. 35, Jacob comes \u201cfull-circle.\u201d He had experienced his first divine revelation upon leaving Canaan, seven chapters ago, and dreamt that God had said:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026<\/b>I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac: the ground on which you are lying I will assign to you and to your offspring. Your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you and your descendants. Remember, I am with you: I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you (28:13-5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now that he had finally left Laban, survived his meeting with Esau, and returned to Canaan, God revealed Himself to Jacob a second time:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026I am El Shaddai.<\/span> Be fertile and increase; a nation, yea an assembly of nations, shall descend from you. Kings shall issue from your loins. The land that I assigned to Abraham and Isaac, I assign to you; and to your offspring to come, will I assign the land (35:11-12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God has \u201cmade good\u201d on his promise of returning Jacob to Canaan. The question remaining is whether the promise to make Jacob\u2019s offspring as numerous as \u201cdust,\u201d and that they will spread in every direction, and that the peoples of the earth will consider these descendants as a source of blessing, is equivalent to Jacob serving as the progenitor of many peoples and become the father of kings. Since these promises are associated with the distant future, it is difficult to pin down their verity, even today!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ovadia Sforno (Italy, 1470-1550) provides an interpretive path when noting on 28:14 that God is referencing Jews who will be exiled, when He compares Jacob\u2019s descendants to \u201cdust\u201d\u2014entities upon whom everyone \u201ctrods.\u201d Furthermore, when they are forced to leave their homes, they will be scattered in all directions. Yet others will <\/span>eventually <\/span><\/i>acknowledge their worth, as Is. 61:6 states: \u201cWhile you shall be called \u2018Priests of the LORD,\u2019 and termed \u2018Servants of our God.\u2019...\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Regarding 35:11, Sforno asserts that by God identifying Himself as \u201cEl Shaddai,\u201d Jews should continue to reproduce (contrary to a view in Bava Batra 60b, that if the Romans forbid circumcision, Jews should not marry and have children). Furthermore, despite the people\u2019s travails, they will produce individuals worthy of being kings, as opposed to having to look towards other nations for leadership (see Deuteronomy 17:15).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since Jacob is associated with \u201cdarkness\u201d and \u201cexile\u201d in a number of contexts, Sforno astutely identifies these verses with one another.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":78271,"alt":"","title":"mic4-hope future","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future.jpg","width":1920,"height":1273,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-300x199.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":199,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-768x509.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":509,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-1024x679.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":679,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1018,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1273,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-1200x796.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":796,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-633x420.jpg","home_baner-width":633,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Promises, Promises","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Regarding the fate of Jacob and his descendants","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":78271,"alt":"","title":"mic4-hope future","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future.jpg","width":1920,"height":1273,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-300x199.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":199,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-768x509.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":509,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-1024x679.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":679,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1018,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1273,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-1200x796.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":796,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/mic4-hope-future-633x420.jpg","home_baner-width":633,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Genesis","chapter":"35","chapter_main_number":"35","date":"20251016","wall_id":"35"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"490","name":"Jacob","old_id":"890"},{"term_id":"506","name":"Prophecy","old_id":"906"},{"term_id":"550","name":"Future","old_id":"950"}]},{"order":3,"id":"103307","color":"#f7e9e9","size":"1","name":"Jacob\u2019s Homecoming ","post_title":"Jacob\u2019s Homecoming","slug":"jacobs-homecoming","old_id":"103307","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":78133,"post_title":"Josh Blechner","slug":"josh-blechner","old_id":"78133","first_name":"Josh ","last_name":"Blechner ","description":"Josh first finished the Tanach during Yeshiva in Mevaseret Zion. 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Abraham blazed the trail and Isaac, for the most part, followed it. Jacob, however, did things differently - at least at first. But now, in chapter 35, God pulls him back to the places that his father and grandfather went to, and to the blessings that he bestowed on them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Jacob\u2019s life is not the same as his father and grandfather. His life is full of tragedy and loss. We can see that tension on display in the organization of this chapter. Verses 1-7 signify a return to his roots. Jacob is told to remove the foreign influences on his life and go back to the place - Beit El - where he first strayed from his path to meet his brother. Verse 8 is the first tragic death in this chapter- Rebekah\u2019s nurse (and Rebekah herself according to some commentators). Verse 9-16 throws Jacob back to the blessing of God. This is a repeat of the \u201cEl-Shaddai\u201d introduction to Abraham in chapter 17. This time, Jacob also receives a new name, like Abraham and Sarah. He then builds an altar like his father and grandfather.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But verse 17-20 brings tragedy yet again with the death of beloved Rachel. He does not get to bury her in the cave that Abraham purchased. In verse 21, Jacob travels and immediately after in verse 22 his eldest son sleeps with one of his wives. But this verse is cut in half with a sudden listing of the 12 sons of Jacob by mother. In verse 27, Jacob finally returns home \u201cAnd Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba\u2014now Hebron\u2014where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why the sudden interruption mid-verse followed by this return? It is almost as if Jacob himself makes the decision mid-tragedy to return home to his father after so many years and follow in the path of Isaac and Abraham. In this way Jacob returns to his destiny.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But something else is odd here. When Isaac last appeared in the Torah, he was on his deathbed waiting to give blessings, yet here he is decades later and still alive. And then, he dies immediately. It is almost as if Isaac was waiting for his son to return home before he could pass on. The last three verses here mimic those of Abraham\u2019s death: announcement of death, age of forefather, and two estranged brothers return for a funeral.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why would Jacob need to return just for that? Isaac is the forefather whose life was in many ways a repeat of Abraham. Perhaps then Jacob returned not for his story to continue, but for his father\u2019s story to end in a way in which Isaac lived, an echo of Abraham.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cDoes she look like a Maayan?\u201d I remember asking my husband minutes after the birth of our daughter. After 27 hours of hard labor, I urgently wished to know this little being. Settling on a name was a way of knowing her, shaping her, signaling through its meaning a connection to others I had loved and to a future I longed for.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I thought of this moment as I read about Rachel naming her newborn, Ben-oni, son of my suffering, with her dying breath. The name is painful in its honesty. At last she delivers the second of two children she has longed, prayed and begged for, but only at the moment of her death.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The twin acts of breathing life into being and naming, action and speech, are creative acts in the Divine image.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So it is quite striking when, immediately after her death, Jacob renames their son Benjamin, son of my strength, perhaps attempting to rescue him from the burden of his name\u2019s meaning, attempting to reinterpret Rachel\u2019s creative act. Indeed Jacob is all too familiar with the strife a descriptive name at birth can engender. Through the name Benjamin, Jacob invokes a different fate, one of strength rooted in the reiteration of God\u2019s covenantal promise and his name change earlier in this chapter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rachel\u2019s creative acts, the birthing and naming and the suffering that surrounded them, cannot be fully resolved anymore than Jacob fully rises to meet the promise of his new name.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This remarkable figure atop of 4000-year-old jug was found in the city of Yehud near Tel Aviv in 2016. The statuette was most likely part of a burial assemblage that also included arrowheads, an ax head, and animal bones. Providing the dead with grave goods was one of the ways individuals could honor and care for their deceased relatives. In this instance, the quantity of materials and artisanship of the figurine suggest that the individual was an important member of the community, like the biblical character of Isaac whose death is narrated in Genesis 35:29.<\/p>\r\n

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On the one hand, Rachel has succeeded. She stole the <\/span>terafim <\/span><\/i>(\"idols\") from her father and so far as we know, never returned them. Her motives are unclear to readers, and commentators have made various suggestions. The <\/span>terafim<\/span><\/i> were an ancient form of GPS giving directions, and navigating thus allowing the group safe passage. She believed in them and wanted the power they lent their devotees for themselves. She wanted to wreak vengeance on her father for his years of mistreatment of Jacob (Genesis 31:7) and his family; after all Jacob only feels ready to leave (Genesis 30:25) after his beloved wife Rachel has given birth to a son (Genesis 30:23). Whether it is to shame her father and render him impotent without the idolatrous token of potency or to sit on them and show her disregard for them is unclear.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What interests me is the confrontation with her father. Rachel says to Laban, \u201cDon\u2019t be angry with me father, for I cannot rise in front of you, the way of women is upon me.\u201d Though many interpreters assume she is saying she is pregnant or menstruating, I prefer the suggestion of feminist Bible scholar<\/span> Jacqueline Lapsley<\/span><\/a> who says, quoted in<\/span> The Torah: A Women\u2019s Commentary<\/span><\/a>, that what Rachel is saying is that the fight between them is unfairly stacked against Rachel because in a patriarchal society the only weapons she has are the ways of women (literally, \u2018<\/span>derech nashim<\/span><\/i>\u2019 Genesis 31:35). Laban has a patriarchal authority she does not. The only way for her to attempt to equalize the playing field is to take the power her father has by force. For this reason, I love the fact that feminist scholar Wendy Zierler called her book about women in modern Hebrew literature<\/span> And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women\u2019s Writing,<\/span><\/a> whose focus is how women \u201ctook control\u201d of the language.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rachel had said to Jacob, \u201cGive me children or I die.\u201d She did have children, though as Jacob wisely reminds her it is in God\u2019s hands and not his (30:2), and she did die, for Jacob himself is the one who says that whoever has taken the <\/span>terafim<\/span><\/i> should not live (31:32).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Rachel starkly demands of her Jacob, \u201cGive me sons or I shall die\u201d (Genesis 30:1). In a painfully ironic twist, Rachel now dies in the very process of having one. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

With her last breath, Rachel names her son Ben-Oni, \u201cson of my misfortune\u201d (35:16-18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since Rachel\u2019s last words are filled with such sorrow, she becomes associated in the Jewish imagination with weeping and lament. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah invokes Rachel to express the grief felt by all mothers for their lost and exiled children. \u201cThus said the Lord: \u2018A cry is heard in Ramah\u2014wailing, bitter weeping\u2014Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, who are gone\u2019\u201d (Jeremiah 31:15). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God is moved by Rachel\u2019s tears that God promises to bring all the tears to an end: \u201cThus said the Lord: \u2018Restrain your voice from weeping, your eyes from shedding tears; for there is a reward for your labor\u2019\u2014declares the Lord\u2014\u2018they shall return from the enemy\u2019s land. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

What does God mean when God tells Rachel that there is reward for her \u201clabor\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A midrash imagines Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses pleading with God concerning the sin of King Manasseh, who placed an idol in the Temple. Rachel steps forward and asks, \u201cMaster of the World, whose mercy is greater, Your mercy or the mercy of flesh and blood? You must admit that Your mercy is greater. Now, did I not bring my rival [i.e., her sister Leah\u2014S.H.] into my home?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rachel reminds God that she did not protest; she aided Leah, sharing with her the sign she had given Jacob to enable him to distinguish between the two of them. Now, she entreats God: \u201cYou, too, if Your children brought Your rival into Your house [i.e., brought an idol into the Temple\u2014S.H.] keep Your silence for them.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God is stirred by Rachel\u2019s words and tells her \u2018There is reward for your labor\u2019\u2014that is, for your righteousness, that you gave your sign to your sister\u2019\u201d (Rashi to Jeremiah 31:14) <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Imagine how powerful this is: Rachel is finally about to be with the man she has yearned for\u2014and yet, in order to prevent Leah\u2019s being disgraced, she lets her sister\u2019s needs trump her own. This is the kind of compassion that changes the divinely- guided course of Jewish history. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rachel\u2019s relations with Leah are not smooth, but Rachel nevertheless sees Leah\u2019s distress and responds accordingly. So great is compassion, Jewish theology tells us, that it has the power to break God\u2019s heart open.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Three in our chapter are re-named with names they already bear.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first, in order of occurrence, is Ya'akov\/Yisra'el (Jacob\/ Israel). He was renamed \"Yisra'el\" by God's messenger (\u201cthe man\") in 32:29 with the etymology for the new name given there as his \u201chaving bested man and divine being.\u201d Now, in 35:9-10, God blesses Ya'akov and again changes his name to Yisra'el, no etymology offered; no recognition of the textual fact that he's \"already been there, done that\". <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second is God. The narrator here consistently uses \"Elohim\", but God introduces Godself to Jacob thus: \"I am El- Shaddai\" (35:11), thereupon proceeding to bless him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is the same name by which God made introductions to Abra(ha)m, the \u00a0only time an introduction was offered to <\/span>him<\/span><\/i>: \"I am El Shaddai, walk in my ways and be blameless\" (17:2).<\/span> Both there and here that name accompanies blessings of fertility, and ownership of the land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Interesting, because God <\/span>did<\/span><\/em> introduce Godself to Jacob previously, when he was fleeing Esau. Then he heard: \"I am YHWH, the God of your father Abraham and the father of Isaac...\" (28:13). Is that God's name? Well, It's <\/span>almost<\/span><\/em> how God had addressed Isaac: \"I am the God of your father Abraham;<\/span> fear not\"<\/span> (26:24). \u00a0Both times that name accompanies a promise of protection from danger.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The third is the place, Beit-El \/ Bethel, \"The abode of God\". Originally named Luz. Jacob had named the place \"Beit-El\" upon awakening from his dream of the ascending- descending angels, when escaping his brother's wrath. Now, immediately after being blessed and renamed Yisra'el, and having God reintroduced as El-Shaddai, he renames the place in which all this occurs. God makes clear to Yisra'el, a man of a new essence, that their relationship has a new nature, expressed in the new-old name 'El-Shaddai', name of fertility and land, beyond the relationship with God as protector. The nature of this revelation is different from his prophetic dream 20 years before, and the place's name needs to be infused with a new meaning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

P.S. Were this not enough, Benjamin is named twice upon birth: His mother called him \"Ben Oni\", son of my suffering; but Dad named him Benjamin, son of Strength \/ right hand.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Most of us would like to live forever. There was one biblical city in which this was possible \u2013 Luz.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Genesis, Chapter 35 (verses 6-7), our patriarch Jacob builds an altar there: \"<\/span>Thus, Jacob came to Luz\u2014that is, Bethel\u2014in the land of Canaan\u2026There he built an altar and named the site El-bethel, for it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Hebrew, the place name <\/span>Bethel <\/span><\/i>means literally \u201cHouse of God\u201d. Earlier, on his way to Haran, Jacob had consecrated to God a stone altar there (Genesis 28:18-19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbis of the Talmudic period turned this once Canaanite city into a legendary City of Immortality [compare <\/span>Shangri-La<\/span><\/i>]:\u00a0<\/span>\u201c\u2026the Angel of Death has no permission to pass through it. But the elderly [in the city of Luz], when their mind is done with them [and they want to die], go beyond the wall [of the city] to perish\u201d (Babylonian Talmud, Sota 46b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This tradition seems to be related to the etymology of the word <\/span>Luz, <\/span><\/i>which<\/span> was used to refer to the nut-shaped bone at the base of the spine that was thought to be the indestructible \u201cbone of resurrection\u201d, the one human bone from which physical resurrection will begin (Leviticus Rabbah 18:1 and parallels). The Biblical city of Luz is also referred to as <\/span>Qushta<\/span><\/i> (the Aramaic word for \u201ctruth\u201d) because its inhabitants who never lied, never died before their time (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 97a).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Significant connections between Luz and life\/death are also found in our chapter. \u00a0Immediately after Jacob builds his altar in Luz-Bethel, his mother\u2019s nurse, Deborah -- who had apparently served as Jacob\u2019s beloved nursemaid -- died and was buried \u201cunder the oak below Bethel; so, it was named <\/span>Allon-Bakhut<\/span><\/i> (\u2018Oak of Weeping\u2019)\u201d (Genesis 35:8). \u00a0In the same chapter, yet another important death befalls Jacob and his extended family (Genesis 35:16-19):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThey set out from Bethel; but when they were still some distance short of Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor. When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, \u201cHave no fear, for it is another boy for you.\u201d But as she breathed her last\u2014for she was dying\u2014she named him <\/span>Ben-Oni <\/span><\/i>(\u201cson of my suffering\u201d); but his father called him Benjamin. Thus, Rachel died.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It may be recalled that Jacob, at the instigation of his mother, Rebecca, lied to his father Isaac to steal the blessing of the firstborn son from his older brother Esau (Genesis, Chapter 27). It was Esau\u2019s rage at this deception that caused Jacob \u2013 again at the instigation of his mother \u2013 to flee to his uncle Laban in far-distant Haran.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is Jacob\u2019s return to Luz-Bethel that provides the biblical basis for the midrashic tradition that Luz is the City of Immortality for those who never lied.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This chapter brings back Bethel to center stage as an alternative for the failed attempt to settle in Shechem. In Bethel, God once again changes Jacob's name to Israel, a change already made in Penuel (Genesis Chapter 32). Why is it necessary to change Jacob\u2019s name again? During the process of the name change, \u00a0three times the text repeats the phrase \u201cthe place where He had spoken to him.\u201d Rashi on this phrase in Genesis 35:13 says, \"I do not know what this is meant to teach us.\" We have learned a lot (or we should have learned a lot) from this humble commentator not just about the text itself but also about humility and the ability to say simply \"I do not know.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nevertheless, one can see a connection between the recurring story of Jacob's name change and the repetitive expression \u201cthe spot where He had spoken to him.\" In Penuel the name change involved a physical struggle with the angel. Here the name change is done by direct a revelation and by speech only. The triple repetition of the expression was meant to emphasize that this time speech was sufficient. Any change, whether of a name, practice, behavior, or essential quality is not simple. It often requires a hard struggle that can sometimes be dragged into an unfair injury of the hip. 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The ancients believed that the name of a person is not merely a label. It may chart out a life path for the person bearing that name. Rachel, who dies at the birth of her second son, Benjamin, calls him by a name that reflects her grief: \"Ben-oni\" (Genesis 35:18). \u00a0The Hebrew word \u201coni\u201d means mourning, pain; see, for example, the confessional that is recited by a person who brings tithes: \"I have not eaten of it while <\/span>be-oni<\/span><\/i> in mourning..., and I have not deposited any of it with the dead.\" (Deuteronomy 26:14). \u00a0Likewise, one can understand the connotation of Benjamin\u2019s name from the phrase \"<\/span>lechem onim, <\/span><\/i>the food of mourners\" (Hosea 9:4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jacob fears that such a name, which expresses mourning, will cast a heavy shadow on the future of his son and direct his life on a path that is filled with suffering. Jacob, therefore, wishes to change the name his beloved wife gave to the child, but at the same time he wishes to honor her wishes and preserve her honor. Since the word \u201con\u201d also has a different meaning, that of strength and power, such as in Jacob's blessing for Reuben, \u201cMy might and <\/span>reishit oni<\/span><\/i> first fruit of my vigor\u201d (Genesis 49:3), he interprets the name given by Rachel in the positive sense, that of power, and calls his son Benjamin (which sounds like Ben-oni), meaning \u201cright-handed,\u201d i.e. strength, as in the text: \u201cYour right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the foe!\" (Exodus 15: 6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

An additional example of an attempt to escape the bitter fate of the name, again a name given to the child by his mother, who had a difficult childbirth, can be found in the tribe of Judah\u2019s family tree: \"Jabetz was more esteemed than his brothers; and his mother named him Jabetz, \u201cBecause,\u201d she said, \u201cI bore him in <\/span>be\u2019etzeb<\/span><\/i> pain.\u201d\" (1 Chronicles 4:9). 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\"There's no such thing as a <\/span>shkedia<\/span><\/i>, Abba. The real word is '<\/span>etz shaked'\"<\/span><\/i> How effortlessly she teaches me Hebrew and ruins the childhood song I'm singing in one fell swoop, this 10 year old of mine.But after some brief googling, I discover that she's right. The '<\/span>yud-hey<\/span><\/i>' suffix, a short form of God's name, was only recently grafted onto the ancient almond tree, giving it a new religious dimension. But mixing trees and religion is nothing new. The Torah refers repeatedly to tree worship, and even the names of the two trees mentioned in chapter 35 - <\/span>ella<\/span><\/i>, terebinth, and <\/span>alon<\/span><\/i>, oak \u00a0- have the divine name <\/span>aleph-lamed<\/span><\/i> embedded within them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That can't be coincidental in a chapter in which that root repeats incessantly. Read the chapter aloud and listen to how often you hear the word and its homonyms. \u00a0This is a chapter about spirituality; Jacob has left behind the materialism of Haran, and now he's in the holy land. But the spiritual life of Jacob's house is shocking. They have settled next to Shechem, and they're worshipping foreign gods. It is a tree-spirituality, the earthy spirituality of the field. The fields Jacob came to know so well working for Laban, in a practical, secular way, his house now infuses with god consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But God's plan, and Jacob's promise, was to give spiritual primacy to Beit El, to the spirituality of the home, of structure. There is still room for the tree-spirituality, but whereas we found it <\/span>next to <\/span><\/i>Shechem, we find it only <\/span>under<\/span><\/i>, subsidiary to, Beit El, where last respects are paid to Deborah, the teacher of the lessons of the house of Laban. Only once this hierarchy of spirituality of the home and spirituality of the field is in place and properly honored, can God endorse the Divine name making its home within Jacob's own name, Yisra-el.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAnd as her soul was departing \u2014 for she [Rachel] was dying \u2014 she called his name \u2018<\/span>Ben-Oni<\/span><\/i>\u2019<\/span> [\u2018the son of my sorrow\u2019]. But his father [Jacob] named him \u2018Benjamin\u2019 [\u2018the son of my right hand\u2019]. Thus Rachel died; and she was buried on the way to Efrat, which is Bethlehem.\u201d (Genesis 35:18-19)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ben-Oni<\/span><\/i>, do you hear me? \u00a0It is I, your mother, calling out to you;
\r\n<\/span>I want to kiss and cradle you, little one; \u2014 but I cannot.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ben-Oni<\/span><\/i>, I am singing a lullaby to you; can you hear it?
\r\n<\/span>A lullaby of a little goat fed raisins and almonds.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ben-Oni<\/span><\/i>, the raisins will help the little goat grow strong
\r\n<\/span>And agile enough to leap over all fences.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ben-Oni<\/span><\/i>, the almonds will nourish him and let him hear voices
\r\n<\/span>That sing lullabies in his dreams.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ben-Oni<\/span><\/i>, you are my little goat; jump this high fence and come to me
\r\n<\/span>If only for the fleetness of a dream.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ben-Oni<\/span><\/i>, do you hear me singing in your dreams?
\r\n<\/span>Do you dream of me as I dream of you? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ben-Oni<\/span><\/i>, I stretch out my hands; can you stretch out your fingers
\r\n<\/span>To grasp my raisins and almonds, my songs, my dreams?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sleep well in your father\u2019s house, little one, the son of my sorrow and my strength;
\r\n<\/span>I will come each night until goats grow as old as moons, my son, Benjamin.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86553,"alt":"","title":"ps88-fetus 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35:7 There he built an altar and named the site El-bethel, for <\/span>sham niglu elav<\/em> <\/span>it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Talkin\u2019 about a revelation: this is the first time that this this key Hebrew concept appears - \u00a0God\u2019s revelation. For this momentous first, it\u2019s interesting to note that the verb here is in the plural. The name of God, which is often plural in form (<\/span>elohim, adonai<\/em> <\/span>are both grammatically plural in Hebrew) rarely takes a plural verb (Genesis 1:26 being a famous exception). Commentators explain the rare plural here by pointing out that the revelation that was referred to - Jacob\u2019s ladder - uniquely contained flights of angels. I guess everyone got in on the celestial act.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

More generally, in Hebrew, revelation has something in common with postcards, incest, birthright, and explorers. They all are variations on one root, g-l-h<\/em>. This root gives us a family of words, which has the basic meaning of \"uncover\" or \"discover,\" but can also mean \"reveal, disclose, expose or explore.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A revelation, whether divine or otherwise, is referred to in contemporary Hebrew as <\/span>hitgalut<\/span><\/em>, something which has been \"revealed,\" or \"uncovered.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One ancient coinage that still has currency today is the Hebrew term for \"incest\" \u2013 <\/span>gilui 'arayot<\/span><\/em> \u2013 literally \"uncovering the nakedness\" of one's close kin.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Young American Jews come to \"discover\" Israel on a specially designed 10-day tour called in English \"Birthright\" and in Hebrew,<\/span> Taglit<\/span><\/em>. Meaning \"discovery,\" this is also the word for scientific breakthroughs and other types of \u201cEurekas!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A \"birthrighter\" may make many discoveries during their revelatory week here, and if they're a little old fashioned and don't tweet their exploits, they might write home about them on a postcard, in Hebrew, <\/span>gluyah<\/span><\/em>. This simply means \"revealed\" or \"uncovered,\" for as opposed to a letter in an envelope, on a postcard the words are exposed for all to see.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Interestingly, the active verb form <\/span>legalot<\/em> <\/span>can be used to describe two actions which are very different in English. If I know something and share it with you, I have \"revealed\" it. But if I don't know something, and find it out for myself, I have \"discovered\" it. Hebrew doesn't distinguish between the two, using <\/span>legalot<\/span><\/em> for both.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus, a child who knows a secret, and refuses to tell, no matter how much he is implored, will petulantly say:<\/span> lo megaleh<\/span><\/em>! \"I won't 'tell'!\" And the great explorers who sailed the globe in the 16th and 17th centuries are called <\/span>megalei 'olam<\/span><\/em>, \"those who discovered the world.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When someone acts like they've had a revelation despite the fact that their great discovery is something perfectly obvious, you may \u2013 if you have a penchant for sarcasm \u2013 choose to respond: <\/span>gilita et America<\/span><\/em>, \"wow, you discovered America there!\" Use at your own risk.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":103309,"alt":"","title":"-623b072e74cc3--623b072e74cc4gen35-milim galah.jpg","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/623b072e74cc3-623b072e74cc4gen35-milim-galah.jpg.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/623b072e74cc3-623b072e74cc4gen35-milim-galah.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/623b072e74cc3-623b072e74cc4gen35-milim-galah.jpg-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/623b072e74cc3-623b072e74cc4gen35-milim-galah.jpg-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/623b072e74cc3-623b072e74cc4gen35-milim-galah.jpg-1024x576.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/623b072e74cc3-623b072e74cc4gen35-milim-galah.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/623b072e74cc3-623b072e74cc4gen35-milim-galah.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/623b072e74cc3-623b072e74cc4gen35-milim-galah.jpg-1200x675.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/623b072e74cc3-623b072e74cc4gen35-milim-galah.jpg-747x420.jpg","home_baner-width":747,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"

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In this chapter, a number of loose ends are tied up that involve both pain and a sense of completeness. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Bethel<\/em>: When Jacob left Haran (Genesis Chapter 28) God revealed Himself to Jacob in Bethel and promised He would remain with him. \u00a0Jacob on his part vowed to worship God and give Him a tithe of his property if and when he returns safely. With the family\u2019s return to Bethel (which takes place after a process of purification just as when one goes to the Temple) this circle is closed with the establishment of an altar on the spot (verse 7). \u00a0In the rest of this chapter, this monument, like the one Jacob erected when he left Beer Sheva, is anointed with oil (verse 14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Revelation and Blessing<\/em>: God reveals Himself to Jacob (verses 9-13) and gives him a second time the blessing, i.e. the patriarchal blessing. \u00a0This includes, as you may recall, the promise of progeny and land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jacob\u2019s family<\/em>: His twelfth son is born - last but not least. \u00a0Jacob\u2019s family is defined formally in verses 23-26. However, his birth comes with with great pain. Rachel has a difficult time in childbirth and afterwards she dies and is buried in Bethlehem on the way to Ephrath (verses 17-20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaac, Jacob, and Esau<\/em>: At age 180 Isaac dies, literally, \u201cwas gathered to his kin.\u201d \u00a0In this, his final journey, Jacob and Esau accompany him to his burial (verses 28-29).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Points to Ponder:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Two trees, three goodbyes, two monuments: \u00a0Trees--\u201cunder the terebinth that was near Shechem\u201d (verse 4) are buried signs of foreign religious practice as they approach Bethel. \u05f4Under the oak below Bethel (verse 8) near Bethel Deborah, Rebekah\u2019s wet nurse, is buried. \u00a0Goodbyes--From Deborah, Rebekah\u2019s nurse, and from Rachel and Isaac. Monuments--Bethel--like the Temple and at Rachel\u2019s tomb as a memorial.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Rebekah\u2019s wet nurse Deborah: Verse 8 (we met her at Rebekah\u2019s engagement in Chapter 24). \u00a0There is something exciting when in the grand narrative minor characters burst forth, people who generally are invisible.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Benjamin has two names that tell the story of his sad birth. For his mother, he is Ben-Oni (verse 18), an ambiguous name that indicates mixed emotions - the son who is born in pain (the Hebrew word \u201coni\u201d is related to the word for \u201cmourning\u201d) is also a source of strength. His father changed his name and decided - he is Benjamin, a strong son.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The burial of Rachel: Rachel died while on the way to Ephrath and was buried on the way and not in the Cave of Machpelah, the official burial ground of the patriarchal family. But ... where exactly? The text gives an exact marker, Bethlehem on the way to Ephrath, which differs from the tradition that identifies the grave being in southern Bethlehem (in the kingdom of Judah). It seems that according to the text that one should look for Rachel's tomb, in a more northern director, closer to Bethel (verse 16).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Reuben's conduct is out of line (verse 22). Again Jacob is silent (and again, as in the case of his silence towards Simeon and Levi about what they did to Shechem, the last word will be uttered in Chapter 49 in his words to his sons before he dies).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

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