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Until this point in the Torah, all blessings pretty much were the same. They usually involved a blessing for progeny, prosperity, and a general idea that one\u2019s enemies would be vanquished. Jacob\u2019s blessings to his children are different. Each child receives a unique blessing. Some relate to the past, others to the future, while some are not time-based. Some are positive, and others are negative. Jacob also uses quite a variety of images. There does not seem to be a difference in the themes or metaphors of blessings given to the brothers based on their mothers. Judah and Joseph, the two patriarchs of the eventual monarchical families receive the longest and most complex blessings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Animals<\/b>- Judah-lion and donkey, Issachar- a donkey, Dan- a serpent,<\/span> Naftali- a deer, Joseph- a wild donkey, Benjamin- a wolf, Simeon and<\/span> Levi- Ox<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Food<\/b>- Judah- grape vine and grapes, Asher- bread<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Drink<\/b>- Reuben- water, Judah- milk and wine<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. War<\/b>- Simeon and Levi- weapons of war, Gad- raiders, Joseph- Archers,<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Negative<\/b>- Reuben, Simeon and Levi, Gad<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. Positive<\/b>- Judah, Zebulun, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naftali, Joseph, Benjamin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  7. Future<\/b>- Simeon and Levi, Judah, Gad, Zebulun, Dan, Asher, Joseph<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  8. Past<\/b>- Reuven, Shimon and Levi<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  9. Neutral<\/b>- Benjamin, Issachar, Naftali<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

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    The opening verse of our portion divides Jacob\u2019s life in two, the seventeen years he lived in Egypt on the one side, with the 147 years of his life on the other (Genesis 47:28).\u00a0Why?<\/p>\r\n

    The only other character whose life is similarly bifurcated into a before and an after in Genesis is Noah of whom we learn, \u201cThe life of Noah after the flood was 359 years.\u00a0 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty-nine years, and he died\u201d (Genesis 9:28-29).<\/p>\r\n

    Once he reunited with his son Joseph and went into exile in Egypt to be taken care of by his son, the second ranking individual in\u00a0the kingdom after the Pharaoh, Jacob\u2019s life was altered irrevocably.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    Both Jacob and Noah experienced the destruction of the world as they knew it and yet they both participated in its rebuilding, with the consciousness of their past experiences behind them.<\/p>\r\n

    Noah builds an altar and makes sacrifices, and then, he grows a vineyard and gets drunk, making it possible for his son to uncover his nakedness (Genesis 9:20-22).\u00a0 The blessings he subsequently gives his children do not seem to entail encouraging them to flourish.<\/p>\r\n

    Jacob continues his life, difficult as it is, making sure his grandchildren know to call on the names of their ancestors Abraham and Isaac as well as his own (Genesis 48:16).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    The difference between the drunken Noah and the discouraged though still functioning Jacob is that instead of retreating backward into a world fueled by alcohol and avoidance of the pain of the present, Jacob acts to change both himself and his family.\u00a0When he blesses his grandsons, he undoes the sibling rivalry he experienced with his own twin Esau and he fomented among his sons Joseph and his siblings.\u00a0Finally, at the end of Genesis, the younger and the older get the blessing together, at the same time, through both of Jacob\u2019s hands (Genesis 48:20).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    This act of quelling the long tradition of rivalry changes the Jewish people, who are now ready to act and behave as a group, ready to eventually leave Egypt and live together in their own land.\u00a0 In Henry V, Shakespeare speaks of how fighters will recall their accomplishments, that they will \u201cremember with advantages\u201d their \u201cfeats\u201d of that day.\u00a0Jacob too, at the end of his life has the advantage of hindsight to finally correct his past mistakes and get the blessing of his grandchildren right in a way he could not with his brother and his sons in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    Instead of being defeated by his past tragedies and the sadness of dwelling in Egypt, Jacob here is able to re-inscribe and change his prior behavior to create a new future for himself and his progeny, in a land still called Israel in his honor.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":74933,"alt":"","title":"ez33-change","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change.jpg","width":1920,"height":678,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-300x106.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":106,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-768x271.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":271,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-1024x362.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":362,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":542,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":678,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-1200x424.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":424,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-1189x420.jpg","home_baner-width":1189,"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":"Parashat Vayechi 5779","tile_main_caption":"Jacob\u2019s Advantage","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Quelling the long tradition of rivalry, Jacob prepares his descendants to act as a group","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":74933,"alt":"","title":"ez33-change","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change.jpg","width":1920,"height":678,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-300x106.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":106,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-768x271.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":271,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-1024x362.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":362,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":542,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":678,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-1200x424.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":424,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez33-change-1189x420.jpg","home_baner-width":1189,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","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,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1023"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"368","name":"Parasha","old_id":"768"},{"term_id":"552","name":"Change","old_id":"952"}]},{"order":4,"id":"40470","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"Jacob's Blessings - 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    The idea that the blessings do not determine the future, but merely describe it (developed in yesterday's chapter), is reinforced by Jacob in chapter 49. \"Gather, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the end of days.\" If so, what's the point? His words would seem to have no prescriptive value, both because they speak of the distant future, and because they are, like a good horoscope, so vague that the listener can always retroactively impose the interpretation that best suits them.<\/p>\r\n

    There are two explicit prescriptions which Jacob charges to his sons, and they are important enough that they are each repeated twice. At the end of his days, Jacob's great challenge is to leave his sons with two things they must do: gather, and listen.<\/p>\r\n

    The fact that Jacob gathers all twelve sons together to bless them, quite in contrast to his own experience, is already a powerful message. Whatever he will say to each son, each one is present, blessed, chosen. This is the moment when Jacob overcomes the zero-sum game of chosenness and rejection that has characterized all of Genesis, and the moment that Bnei Yisrael, the Children of Israel, as an entity can be born.<\/p>\r\n

    But gathering (he'asfu<\/em>) alone can't accomplish that. In order to come together (hikavtzu<\/em>), the brothers also need to listen carefully to Jacob, and to hear that each brother has his unique place and role. The only way to overcome the destructive competition to be \"the chosen one\" is to articulate a vision in which there are many ways to be chosen. But even this is not enough, because even diversity can be constructed within easy, comfortable parameters. And so Jacob's vision, first and foremost, finds a place for the most destructive, problematic forces within the big tent of chosenness, rather than taking the easy route of achieving.<\/p>\r\n

    This is the profound, and unabashedly pluralistic<\/em>, message of twelve tribes.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":99078,"alt":"","title":"1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","width":800,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":600,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"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":"Jacob the Pluralist","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Jacob overcomes the zero-sum game of chosenness and rejection that has characterized all of Genesis","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":99078,"alt":"","title":"1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","width":800,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":600,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1chron9-Washington_E_Pluribus_Unum-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","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":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Genesis","chapter":"49","chapter_main_number":"49","date":"20251105","wall_id":"49"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"425","name":"Pluralism","old_id":"825"},{"term_id":"504","name":"Blessing","old_id":"904"}]},{"order":6,"id":"40474","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Why Does Judah Become the Leader? 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    49:8- \u201cYou, O Judah, your brothers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the nape of your foes; Your father\u2019s sons shall bow low to you.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

    Joseph\u2019s flaws are considerable. To incur his father\u2019s favor, he tattle-tales on his brothers (Gen. 37:2). He shares his dreams of aggrandizement. Last, he brings his father untold grief, failing to inform him that he yet lives. As Thomas Mann speculates in his epic, Joseph and his Brothers, Joseph resented being the \u201cfavored son\u201d whom his father had thereby endangered.<\/p>\r\n

    Judah, too, is a flawed character, the architect of the sale of Joseph. Unlike Joseph, Judah is unable to restrain his sexual passions. After impregnating Tamar, Judah insists upon a cover-up.<\/p>\r\n

    Yet Judah matures. His Hebrew name \u201cYehudah\u201d connotes \u201cacknowledgment\u201d \u2013 both of errors and as leader by his brothers (Gen. 49:8). Judah\u2019s speech compels Joseph to confront three truths:<\/p>\r\n

    First, as Robert Alter notes, Judah underscores the family context in which Jacob favored two of his sons. In Judah\u2019s words, Jacob had told the brothers, \u201cYou know that my wife bore me two sons.\u201d The remainder held no such status.<\/p>\r\n

    Second, Judah\u2019s speech stresses his responsibility for Benjamin. He offers to remain as Joseph\u2019s slave and will not permit his father to die by yet another loss of a favored son.<\/p>\r\n

    Third, Judah appeals to Joseph saying he cannot return without Benjamin \u201clest I see the evil that will befall my father\u201d. When he returned previously without Joseph and saw his father\u2019s grief, he ought to have confessed but lacked the statesmanship to make that personal sacrifice. Now he is a changed man \u2013 one determined to maintain the family.<\/p>\r\n

    It is these tropes that \u201covercome\u201d Joseph. He can only embrace his brothers and urge them to reunite with him. This rebuilding of family is prerequisite for building peoplehood underscored in Exodus.<\/p>\r\n

    Several implications lie embedded within this narrative. First, leadership requires the capacity to admit mistakes \u2013 as demonstrated by Judah. Second, as Joseph\u2019s experience indicates, the leadership of the \u201ccourt Jew\u201d is only transitory \u2013 temporarily useful but no safeguard for Jewish security. Last, as the rivalry between Judah and Joseph suggests, Jewish disunity is all too often the norm of Jewish history, and efforts to create unity aberrational. 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    Jacob was on his death-bed. He summoned his children to bless them before he died. But the text begins with a strange semi-repetition: \u201cGather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come. Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.\u201d (Gen. 49:1-2)<\/p>\r\n

    Rashi, following the Talmud, says that \u201cJacob wished to reveal what would happen in the future, but the Divine presence was removed from him.\u201d He tried to foresee the future but found he could not.<\/p>\r\n

    We believe that we cannot predict the future when it comes to human beings. We make the future by our choices. The script has not yet been written. The future is radically open.<\/p>\r\n

    Rarely is this more powerfully asserted than in the Unetaneh tokef<\/em> prayer. Even after we have said that \u201cOn Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed \u2026 who will live and who will die\u201d, we still go on to say, \u201cBut teshuvah, prayer and charity avert the evil of the decree.\u201d There is no sentence against which we cannot appeal.<\/p>\r\n

    Do not believe that the future is written. It isn\u2019t. There is no fate we cannot change, no prediction we cannot defy.<\/p>\r\n

    That is why, when Jacob wanted to tell his children what would happen to them in the future, the Divine spirit was taken away from him. Our children continue to surprise us, as we continue to surprise others. Made in the image of God, we are free. 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    What a moving scene. Jacob, the father, right before he dies asks his sons to gather beside him and hear their future, \u201cwhat is to befall you in days to come\u201d (Genesis 49:1). Who wouldn\u2019t be moved by such a gesture? A magician at home, a fortune teller. Who would not want to hear something about his future, on how the continuation of his life, his and his descendants\u2019? Who would not want to stand alert and excited at this kind of show?<\/p>\r\n

    But when Jacob begins to talk, what a disappointment! Reuben is rebuked harshly for his past deeds. Simeon and Levi, he curses for their past deeds, and for the rest of his children, he does not say anything about the future.<\/p>\r\n

    Jacob tells them mainly about their present, about they themselves are, about their deep character, and compares their portion to animals (an ox and lion, a snake, a donkey, and a deer).<\/p>\r\n

    \u201cDad!!,\u201d their eyes glimmering in confusion, pain, and disappointment, \u201cyou promised us a fortune telling, not a zoo!\u201d<\/p>\r\n

    Our Sages, too, also are troubled by the gap between his promise to tell the end of days and his actual words. From here they infer \u201cJacob sought to reveal to his sons the end of days but the Divine Presence departed from him\u201d (Pesachim 56a).<\/p>\r\n

    But perhaps Jacob, nevertheless, reveals the end.<\/p>\r\n

    The end, so he says between the lines, is that one does not seek in the future. One\u2019s search should not focus on the end but on the present. What will happen to you in the future is derived from what you are now, your character, your behavior in life, your skills and your abilities. This is the present. 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    For the past several chapters, Jacob prepares himself for his death. Jacob, as only Jacob knows how, prepares well (we have already seen this in the meeting between him and his brother Esau). This is what Jacob says to his son Joseph: \u201cNow I can die, having seen for myself that you are still alive\u201d (Genesis 46:30), a statement that he made in their emotional reunion and that prepares Joseph for his father\u2019s death. In this way, the biblical writer \u201cissued\u201d an official announcement of the imminent death of father of the nation, when he said, \u201cWhen the time approached for Israel to die\u201d (Genesis 47:29). This is the background to Jacob\u2019s request of Joseph to bury him in the burial place of his ancestors. Likewise, Jacob\u2019s death is announced when he says \u201cI am about to die\u201d (Genesis 48:21) after he blessed his grandchildren, the sons of Joseph.<\/p>\r\n

    Even now in Genesis Chapter 49, with astonishing lucidity, after he makes sure to say goodbye to each and every one of his sons and gives precise instructions one more time about his burial arrangements, and while they surround his death bed and accompany him in his last moments, he patiently lies down in bed, seeking the most fitting and comfortable position in which to die, \u201cbreathes his last\u201d before their tearful eyes, like Abraham and Isaac his forefathers before him. However, unlike their deaths where it says explicitly that Abraham and Isaac \u201cbreathed their last, \u201cdied,\u201d and \u201cwere gathered to their people,\u201d the word \u201cdeath\u201d or \u201cdied\u201d is missing from the description of Jacob\u2019s last moments: \u201cHe drew his feet into the bed and, breathing his last, he was gathered to his people\u201d (Genesis 49:33). 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    Reuben\u2019s clarinet
    \r\nTrembles like leaves on trees
    \r\nWhen autumn rains fall.<\/p>\r\n

    Simeon\u2019s saxophone
    \r\nAwakens all the sleepers,
    \r\nMore than angry frogs.<\/p>\r\n

    Levi\u2019s brass trumpet,
    \r\nFlashing in the summer sun,
    \r\nMakes dancers\u2019 feet fly.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    Judah\u2019s silver flute:
    \r\nLouder than a lion\u2019s roar;
    \r\nSofter than red wine.<\/p>\r\n

    Zebulun\u2019s tuba
    \r\nEbbs and flows like ocean waves
    \r\nBreaking on the shore.<\/p>\r\n

    Issachar\u2019s trombone
    \r\nCauses gray donkeys to sway
    \r\nWhen they hear the blues.<\/p>\r\n

    Dan\u2019s brash tambourine,
    \r\nLike a serpent by the road,
    \r\nStrikes unexpected.<\/p>\r\n

    Gad\u2019s xylophone,
    \r\nSometimes taken for granted,
    \r\nBeats out our rhythm.<\/p>\r\n

    Asher\u2019s bronze cymbals,
    \r\nWaiting like crouching leopards,
    \r\nSuddenly are heard.<\/p>\r\n

    Naftali\u2019s bass drum
    \r\nWaits for the perfect moment
    \r\nTo boom out our name.<\/p>\r\n

    Joseph\u2019s violin
    \r\nIs our father\u2019s most precious
    \r\nStradivarius.<\/p>\r\n

    Benjamin\u2019s cello
    \r\nOverwhelms all who listen,
    \r\nLike a hungry wolf.<\/p>\r\n

    Dinah\u2019s golden harp
    \r\nOnce knew all our melodies;
    \r\nNow her strings are ripped.<\/p>\r\n

    Our father Jacob;
    \r\nAs long as our music plays,
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    49:5-Simeon and Levi are a pair; Their weapons are \u201cklei chamas<\/em>,\u201d tools of lawlessness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The word chosen from this chapter, chamas<\/em>, \u201clawlessness\u201d or \u201cviolence,\u201d is itself a trenchant, violent term. What merited the entire world\u2019s destruction in the Flood? That it was filled with chamas<\/em>, lawlessness (6:13). Here it is used by Jacob as a castigation to Simeon and Levi for their vengeful murder spree. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But this word has special significance for us for two reasons. First, synagogue-going Jews on Yom Kippur will say the traditional \u201cconfessional prayer\u201d (vidui), which is arranged as an alphabetic acrostic. \u05d7-\u05de-\u05e1, ch-m-s<\/em>, is the root used for the letter \u201cchet<\/em>\u201d - \u05d7\u05de\u05e1\u05e0\u05d5, <\/span>chamasnu<\/span><\/em>, we have done violence, or oppressed. We hear the language of Genesis echoing throughout the liturgy of the ages. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The second reason is more geopolitic. The ruling faction of the Palestinians in Gaza is in fact called Hamas. I\u2019m sure many Tanakh-studying Jews come across this word \u201cchamas<\/em>\u201d which is more familiar from newspaper headlines, and then are, what - stunned? gratified? have feelings of divine poetic justice? that the word in Hebrew means what it does. That name was chosen by the Palestinians for two reasons. It is an acronym for <\/span>\u1e24arakat al-Muq\u0101wamah al-\u02beIsl\u0101miyyah<\/span><\/em> the Islamic Resistance Movement. But it also is a word in Arabic that means something like valor, strength, or power. And yes, it is the same Semitic root as the Hebrew term. 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    Close to his death, Jacob gathers his sons \u201cCome together that I may tell you what is to befall you in days to come.\u201d (verse 1). \u00a0He turns to each one of his sons and gives a messages that sometimes is a curse, but more often is a blessing, and almost always is a look into the future to life in the Land of Israel as tribes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The messages to the sons sound very much like a poem, with rhythm, flowery language, imagery, mostly from the animal world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The order in which Jacob turns to each son is arranged according to their mothers:<\/span><\/p>\r\n