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Sotah<\/span><\/em>, the trial by ordeal of a woman suspected of adultery, is a unique ceremony. No other law includes outright divine intervention. When a man suspects his wife and warns her not to be alone with a certain man and she defies him, the man brings her to the priest. The priest then performs a special ritual that involves making the woman swear innocence, read a paragraph that is written on a tablet and then dissolved in water. A grain offering is brought and the woman drinks from the water. If she was truthful, then (the Gemara says that) she becomes pregnant. If she was lying, her stomach and thighs become distended and sag.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Normally, any sort of punishment, even for adultery, requires two witnesses and court adjudication. Not in this case. During the ceremony, God\u2019s name is erased in the bitter waters, something that is not done anywhere else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The tractate of Sotah dissects every single word in the twenty verses of this chapter. A few examples: In verse 11, the Torah introduces the section with \u201cSpeak to the Israelite people and say to them.\u201d The Gemara explains that the additional \u201cand say to them\u201d is added to include not just married women, but women who are awaiting levirate marriage and an engaged woman. These women can be warned, although they do not drink from the Sotah water.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Verse 15 explains that \u201cthe man shall bring his wife to the priest.\u201d The Gemara explains that the ceremony can only begin if the husband himself brings the wife to the temple. No one else is allowed to bring her, not even the court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In verse 18, the priest stands the woman up and places the grain offering in her hands. The Gemara explains that if the woman was unable to stand on her own, or she did not have hands to hold the offering, she cannot be given the bitter waters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does God intervene in this case specifically? It cannot merely be to protect the sanctity of marriage because this ceremony is not for all sexual transgressions. The key difference here is the jealousy itself. Jealousy is a powerful emotion. Left unchecked, the husband will do horrible things to his suspected wife. 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Read the many posts for today's chapter that explore the questions:<\/p>\r\n

How Should We Understand Today the Tanakh's View of Jealousy and Suspected Adultery?<\/p>\r\n

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We do not live in a time when women are freed from the nightmares and terror of jealous husbands. \u00a0We read almost every day how women are killed in \u201chonor\u201d killings by male relatives, supported by an establishment who does not care enough (at best) to make sure women are safe. I suggest reading the Sotah ritual with this as background. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Given how awful and humiliating the Sotah ritual is for the accused woman, it is certainly not an emancipatory or modern text: the Bible does not tell the husband to see a secular authority or religious priest to work out his jealous fantasies. But significantly, underlying this law, the husband does not absolutely own his wife\u2019s body\u2014he cannot administer punishment directly based on his suspicions. \u00a0The husband must bring his wife to the Tabernacle\/Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Sotah ordeal is not a direct parallel to the treatment of other \u201csuspect\u201c women in history. For instance, a woman suspected of witchcraft had a stone tied to her ankle, and was thrown in the water. If she miraculously swam free, she then \u00a0must be a witch and was burned at the stake. The scarlet letter is removed almost immediately.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Don\u2019t misunderstand me\u2014I am not saying that this is an egalitarian law. \u00a0Ancient Israel was a polygynous society, where men could have many legitimate concurrent sexual partners, and women could only have one; the jealous wife needed to live with her jealousy, as reflected in many biblical stories. In a culture that was, and still remains, dangerous for women from the people they are most vulnerable to, the ceremony was a welcome relief. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This law, which required earth form the Temple, was automatically abolished once the Temple was destroyed. In the Rabbinic interpretations of the biblical text they moved this law in new directions, and use it as a means to control women differently: not sexually, but in terms of women\u2019s access to Jewish texts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Babylonian Talmud <\/span>Sotah<\/span><\/i> 21a discusses whether or not women may study Torah, and the famous opinion of R. Eliezer is that they may not, since if they study Torah, they will realize that good deeds defer the punishment of the Sotah<\/em> waters, even if they were adulterous, for according to the rabbis, if a woman sleeps around and then gives charity, and sleeps around and then gives charity, the waters will be ineffective! 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It's entirely plausible to read the fifth chapter of Numbers and come away understanding that the Sotah ritual is a punishment for a woman who cheats on her husband, and a deterrent for a woman considering it. It's a reading that sees Sotah as one of many laws that a patriarchal society creates in order to protect male control and the male ego by use of intimidation, coercion and violence. The most minor feelings of insecurity on the part of a husband as to his sole ownership over his wife invite a ceremony that, in the best of circumstances, spells extreme humiliation for the woman.<\/p>\r\n

I don't think one can deny that this is a fine, good, coherent reading of the text. But it leaves a bitter taste, unbefitting the Torah, whose paths are paths of pleasantness, and all of whose ways are peace. So within rabbinic readings of Sotah, you can find a very different understanding emerge.<\/p>\r\n

Take the puzzling statement from the Talmudic tractate Sotah (47a) that \"once the adulterers proliferated, the bitter waters were stopped\". If the Sotah water's goal was punishment and deterrence, you would expect exactly the opposite! The increase in adultery should make it even more critical to enforce Sotah. But Chizkuni explains that the Sotah ceremony was only intended for cases of doubt, in order to return peace to a couple by calming a jealous, suspecting husband, offering him absolute proof that his wife was innocent. In the same vein, the Gemara points out that this goal of marital peace and harmony is so powerful that it even justifies erasing the Divine name, one of the most serious prohibitions in the Torah.<\/p>\r\n

And then there are rabbis who go even further. In Rabbi Elazar's radical Midrash, in the context of a Gemara teaching of the 'great things' we learn from Chana, Chana offers God an ultimatum. Either answer my prayers, or I will make my husband needlessly jealous, he will demand the Sotah trial, and you will be forced to fulfill your promise to the falsely accused woman and give me a child. Thus, the Sotah trial which seems to represent a typical abuse of male power, is transformed into a vehicle of feminist empowerment and actualization.<\/p>\r\n

Now that's a reading I can swallow.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":46748,"alt":"","title":"num5-scarlet","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","width":274,"height":320,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet-257x300.jpg","medium-width":257,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","medium_large-width":274,"medium_large-height":320,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","large-width":274,"large-height":320,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","1536x1536-width":274,"1536x1536-height":320,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","2048x2048-width":274,"2048x2048-height":320,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","post_full_size-width":274,"post_full_size-height":320,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","home_baner-width":274,"home_baner-height":320}},"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":"Sotah Water In A Variety Of Flavors","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Rabbinic readings of female empowerment","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":46748,"alt":"","title":"num5-scarlet","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","width":274,"height":320,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet-257x300.jpg","medium-width":257,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","medium_large-width":274,"medium_large-height":320,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","large-width":274,"large-height":320,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","1536x1536-width":274,"1536x1536-height":320,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","2048x2048-width":274,"2048x2048-height":320,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","post_full_size-width":274,"post_full_size-height":320,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/num5-scarlet.jpg","home_baner-width":274,"home_baner-height":320}},"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":"Numbers","chapter":"5","chapter_main_number":"122","date":"20260216","wall_id":"122"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"363","name":"Midrash","old_id":"763"},{"term_id":"483","name":"Feminism","old_id":"883"},{"term_id":"797","name":"Sotah","old_id":"1197"}]},{"order":6,"id":"46580","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Mad or Wayward? 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The term \"Sotah\" reveals a peculiar ambiguity. It refers both to the woman who is under suspicion of adultery and specifically to the woman who has undergone the ordeal and been found guilty. As Rashi explains the word (on Num 5:12), it carries two quite different meanings: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cOur Rabbis have taught: \u2018Adulterers never sin until a spirit of madness enters into them, as it is written of the Sotah, <\/span>`<\/span><\/i>ki tisteh<\/span><\/em>\u2014if she becomes mad [<\/span>shotah<\/span><\/em>]'\u2019 (Prov. 6:32). But the plain sense of the verse is that <\/span>ki tisteh<\/span><\/em> means: if she deviates from the path of modesty...\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the first reading, derived from the midrash (Tanchuma, <\/span>Nasso<\/span><\/i> 5), the Sotah is the bearer of a \"spirit of madness.\" In order to read it this way, the Rabbis notice that the biblical word is, unexpectedly, spelled with a shin<\/em>, from the root<\/span> sh-t-h<\/span><\/em>, which refers to madness, folly, craziness. In the second reading, <\/span>ki tisteh<\/span><\/em> is read in accordance with its sound, as derived from the root<\/span> s-t-h<\/span><\/em> with a <\/span>sin<\/span><\/em> or a <\/span>samech<\/span><\/em>\u2014<\/span><\/i>to deviate, be wayward, go astray. The woman has deviated from social norms of modesty; she is on a slippery slope that may already have brought her to full adultery. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Two different understandings of adultery are implied. In the first reading, the adulterous act is described as an incomprehensible loss of sanity. This is the crime of passion that in French law traditionally constituted grounds for leniency. Such a diagnosis of the <\/span>Sotah<\/span><\/i> conveys the fear that such taboo acts arouse in normative society. The Rabbis here see an otherness that they define as the invasion of \"a spirit of madness.\" But if she is indeed possessed by such a demonic spirit, if she is, in modern terms, clinically insane, is she responsible for her own acts? In the other reading, the \"slippery slope\" interpretation, the <\/span>Sotah<\/span><\/i> remains responsible. If she had not \"deviated,\" she would not have reached this point. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, this rational perspective loses an aspect of the situation that is clearly important to the Rabbis: it obscures the madness of illicit passion, the otherness of what the <\/span>Sotah<\/span><\/i> represents\u2014which opens up difficult questions about moral responsibility. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Commonsense interpretations of the text and act are in tension with the mad truth of a reading that elides <\/span>Sotah<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>shotah<\/span><\/em>. If, at the moment of sin, the Sotah has become fundamentally irrational, then she has, in a sense, become a stranger to her daylight self. 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A reading of verses 11-28 of our chapter yields a most astonishing and perplexing account: A man can accuse his wife of infidelity seemingly without any evidence and a woman so accused can clear her name only by undergoing an ordeal in which she drinks a potion of \u201cliving\u201d water mixed with earth from the floor of the Tabernacle and the ashes of a priestly scroll.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Oral Law, in the form of Tractate Sotah, fills in the gaps in the Torah text. The use of the verb k-n-aleph\u00a0<\/em>(literally, to be jealous or vengeful) implies that the husband has previously cautioned his wife\u2014in the presence of two witnesses\u2014not to seclude herself with a particular man. When this warning was ignored and the two were caught in a compromising situation, the woman was first brought to court where she was offered the option to confess, forfeit her <\/span>ketubah<\/span><\/em> (dowry), and accept a divorce.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, if she persisted in her claim of innocence, the ordeal commenced. While there is much speculation on just how it worked, Nahmanides probably put it best when he observed that Sotah was the only one of the 613 Torah-based mitzvot that required an act of God to operate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Two additional comments are particularly worthy of note in this context. First is the observation of the tanna<\/em> Rabbi Yishmael that the overriding value of marital tranquility is highlighted by the fact that God, as it were, allows His divine Name to be desecrated by having it mixed into the potion for the sake of preserving even an obviously troubled marriage (Talmud Shabbat 116a).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second is a wry observation by Maimonides that places the ordeal of the Sotah on a more level gender playing field:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When she dies, the adulterer on whose account she was compelled to drink will also die, wherever he may be. The same symptoms: the swelling of the belly and the rupture of the thigh, will also occur to him. All the above will occur provided her husband never engaged in forbidden sexual relations in his life. If, however, her husband ever engaged in forbidden relations, the [bitter] waters do not determine [the fidelity of] his wife. 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He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). 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Chapter 5 of Numbers includes the law of <\/span>Sotah<\/span><\/i>, the ordeal of the suspected adulteress (see verses 12-31). Significantly, it is this biblical section that provides the Scriptural basis for the Rabbinic discussion of whether women should be taught Torah or not. As we learn in the Babylonian Talmud, Sotah 20a (Mishnah Sotah 3:4): <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cIf she (the suspected adulteress who drinks the bitter waters) possessed merit, it [causes the water] to suspend its effect upon her. Some merit suspends the effect for one year, more merit for two years, and still more merit for three years. Hence Ben Azzai (who interestingly was a confirmed childless bachelor!) declared: A man is under the obligation to teach his daughter Torah (particularly the biblical law of <\/span>Sotah<\/span><\/i>), so that if she is made to drink (the bitter waters), she will know that whatever merit she has suspends their effect (for only up to three years if she is indeed guilty of adultery). Rabbi Eliezer declares the opposite. Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her loose sexual morality [<\/span>tiflut<\/span><\/em>] (because by simply teaching her the laws of adultery he puts immoral thoughts into her mind).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We have here an example of a debate on issues that are similar to what in our day is called \u201csex education\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Should young people be taught how to deal with their emerging sexuality or not, and at what age? Will discussing sex with adolescents cause them to engage in sexual relations before they are psychologically ready? Or will early discussion of sexuality help them to deal with this aspect of human behavior when they enter adulthood? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ultimately, at least until recently, it was the position of Rabbi Eliezer (an infamous rabbinic misogynist!) that won out, due to Maimonides\u2019 adopting the view of Rabbi Eliezer as that of the \u201cSages\u201d in his authoritative and influential codification of Jewish law (Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot Talmud Torah 1:13): \u201c\u2026.the Sages commanded that a person should not teach his daughter Torah, because most women cannot concentrate their attention on study, and thus transform the words of Torah into idle matters because of their lack of understanding. [Thus,] our Sages declared: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah (especially Oral Torah) is like one who teaches her <\/span>tiflut<\/span><\/em>\u2026\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Maimonides\u2019 decision was adopted by the Shulhan Arukh (<\/em><\/span>Yoreh De'ah<\/span><\/em> 246:6), which became the accepted halakhic position, until recently, when this view was challenged, initially in liberal Jewish circles, but now in ever expanding areas of Jewish education.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":95932,"alt":"","title":"ruth1-womans hands bound","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"The Ordeal Of Adultery And Teaching Torah To Women","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"When learning should NOT lead to doing\u2026.","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":95932,"alt":"","title":"ruth1-womans hands bound","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ruth1-womans-hands-bound-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"Numbers","chapter":"5","chapter_main_number":"122","date":"20260216","wall_id":"122"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"410","name":"Torah","old_id":"810"},{"term_id":"483","name":"Feminism","old_id":"883"},{"term_id":"574","name":"Sex","old_id":"974"},{"term_id":"600","name":"Women","old_id":"1000"},{"term_id":"775","name":"Study","old_id":"1175"}]},{"order":10,"id":"46687","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"'Blue Stripes' Bible: What Is Needed To Heal A Ruptured Relationship? 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A 2011 recipient of the prestigious Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education, Rabbi Held has been named multiple times to Newsweek\u2019s list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America. He holds a doctorate in religion from Harvard; Rabbi Held's first book, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence, was published by Indiana University Press in 2013; The Heart of Torah, a collection of essays on the Torah in two volumes, was published by JPS in 2017.","short_description":"Rabbi Shai Held is President, Dean, and Chair in Jewish Thought at Hadar,","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":37919,"alt":"","title":"shai held","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","width":150,"height":186,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","medium-width":150,"medium-height":186,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","medium_large-width":150,"medium_large-height":186,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","large-width":150,"large-height":186,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","1536x1536-width":150,"1536x1536-height":186,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","2048x2048-width":150,"2048x2048-height":186,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","post_full_size-width":150,"post_full_size-height":186,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","home_baner-width":150,"home_baner-height":186}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"122","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Even the sacrificial cult texts say that sacrifices are not enough","post_main_content_content":"

The book of Leviticus details what happens when one Israelite defrauds or steals from another, and then takes a false oath declaring his innocence. In order to make restitution, he must first return what he took and pay to the aggrieved party and then a guilt offering. When all that has been done, Leviticus teaches, \u201che shall be forgiven for whatever he may have done to draw blame thereby\u201d (Leviticus 5:20-26).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Numbers 5, verses 6 to 8, this law is reiterated but with an additional requirement: The reparation must be preceded by confession. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why must the sacrifice be supplemented\u2014and preceded\u2014by confession? Perhaps the Torah worries that people will confuse sacrifice for magic and assume that it works automatically. But repentance requires much more: The requirement of confession makes clear that the sinner \u201cmust humble himself, acknowledge his wrong, and resolve to depart from sin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our verses tell us what comes before confession: <\/span>Ve-ashmah ha-nefesh ha-hi<\/span><\/em>, which JPS renders as \u201cthat person realizes his guilt.\u201d Bible scholar Jacob Milgrom argues that when the root <\/span>a-sh-m<\/em> <\/span>appears in the Torah without a direct object (as in our case), it \u201crefers to an inner experience of... liability [to someone for reparation], i.e., \u2018to feel guilt.\u2019\u201d Thus, our verses should more correctly be rendered as \u201cwhen that person feels guilt, he shall confess...\u201d If Milgrom is right, then the Torah is unambiguous about its demands of the repentant sinner: A sacrifice must be brought, but the sinner\u2019s \u201cinvolvement, both in conscience and in deed, is a <\/span>sine qua non<\/em> <\/span>for securing divine forgiveness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Internal regret may be useful in repenting from sin, but it does not facilitate return to God. For that we need confession, the risk of relationally reaching out to and for God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

R. Eliyahu Dessler (1892-1953) suggests that in attempting to change, \u201cintellectual or emotional revelations are not enough. Rather, one must also express them in words, because when one adds speech to thoughts and feelings, they become firmly established in one\u2019s heart\u201d (<\/span>Mikhtav Me-Eliyahu<\/span><\/i>, vol. 5, p. 260). It is only when I speak words\u2014when I confess my sins\u2014that I open a relational space between me and God. Following the lead of this chapter, Maimonides opens his presentation of the Laws of Repentance by invoking the need for verbal confession of sin. Maimonides insists that this act of opening lies at the very heart of the process of repentance (Laws of Repentance, 1:1). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In an understated but immensely powerful way, Numbers 5 provides a paradigm for just this aspiration: When we seek to change our ways, the Torah teaches, we must feel remorse, express it, and act to heal the breaches we have caused, both with God and with the person we have mistreated. <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":106656,"alt":"","title":"-62dcd440a4be6--62dcd440a4be7num5-speak 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\"And so a fit of jealousy overcomes a man and he is jealous concerning his wife, who has defiled herself; or a fit of jealousy overcomes a man concerning his wife, although she has not defiled herself \u2013 \" (Numbers 5:14)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

if
\r\n<\/span>i
\r\n<\/span>through desire
\r\n<\/span>consume
\r\n<\/span>love \u2013<\/span><\/p>\r\n

will
\r\n<\/span>i \u2026?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

if
\r\n<\/span>i
\r\n<\/span>through loving
\r\n<\/span>through consuming
\r\n<\/span>desire \u2013<\/span><\/p>\r\n

will
\r\n<\/span>she \u2026?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

love \u2013
\r\n<\/span>desiring
\r\n<\/span>consuming<\/span><\/p>\r\n

will \u2013<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u00a0can<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

\u00a0<\/span> forgive?<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":90349,"alt":"","title":"ps130-forgive","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-forgive.jpg","width":1920,"height":1440,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-forgive-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-forgive-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-forgive-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-forgive-1024x768.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":768,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-forgive.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1152,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-forgive.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1440,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-forgive-1200x900.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":900,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-forgive-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":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"The Jealous Husband And His Wife","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Can we forgive? 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i<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is just before Moses finishes
\r\n<\/span>building God\u2019s Tent,
\r\n<\/span>God\u2019s home among the people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

God tells Moses:
\r\n<\/span>let the ones who are sick
\r\n<\/span>with the sickness of impurity
\r\n<\/span>leave the camp.
\r\n<\/span>(When they are pure again
\r\n<\/span>they will return
\r\n<\/span>and bring sacrifices
\r\n<\/span>in God\u2019s Tent.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

God tells Moses:
\r\n<\/span>a jealous husband
\r\n<\/span>can come with his wife
\r\n<\/span>to God\u2019s Tent
\r\n<\/span>to face her.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

God tells Moses:
\r\n<\/span>a person may become a nazir,
\r\n<\/span>a holy monastic\u2014
\r\n<\/span>not a priest
\r\n<\/span>not a prophet,
\r\n<\/span>but one set apart.
\r\n<\/span>And the nazir must comes to God\u2019s Tent
\r\n<\/span>when his time as a nazir ends.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

Before Moses finishes building
\r\n<\/span>God\u2019s Tent,
\r\n<\/span>God mentions these lonely ones
\r\n<\/span>\u2014the sick and alone
\r\n<\/span>\u2014the jealous, alone from their spouses
\r\n<\/span>\u2014the seeker, alone with God\u2014
\r\n<\/span>who all come to the Tent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

You might think:
\r\n<\/span>this Tent,
\r\n<\/span>this nation\u2019s home for God,
\r\n<\/span>has no place in it
\r\n<\/span>for people who do not fit in the nation.
\r\n<\/span>Before the Tent is finished,
\r\n<\/span>God says:
\r\n<\/span>even these outsiders
\r\n<\/span>have a place in My Home,
\r\n<\/span>even they
\r\n<\/span>have a home with Me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Numbers 5:1-6:21<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Hold onto your hats, this is a really crazy G-dcast.<\/p>\r\n

Parshat Naso is one of the oddest, most thorny episodes in the Bible involves a man who suspects his wife of adultery. Inbal Freund-Novick, an Israeli activist for women\u2019s rights, tells the excruciatingly difficult tale of the accused wife in Parshat Naso. Hard to believe this stuff is in the Torah, but it\u2019s undeniably fascinating.<\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YUXBdSg5JTU","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"By: Inbal Freund-Novick","tile_main_caption":"Naso: What the Torah Says About Healthy Marriages","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A Bimbam Video","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YUXBdSg5JTU","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":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"I Samuel","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1048"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":16,"id":"57320","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Naso: Confession Is A Mitzvah ","post_title":"Naso: Confession Is A Mitzvah","slug":"naso-confession-is-a-mitzvah","old_id":"57320","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36663,"post_title":"Beth Kissileff","slug":"beth-kissileff","old_id":"36663","first_name":"Beth ","last_name":"Kissileff ","description":"Beth Kissileff is the editor of the anthology Reading Genesis (2016 - https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/reading-genesis-9780567381521), and the forthcoming Reading Exodus, and the author of the novel Questioning Return - https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Questioning-Return-Novel-Beth-Kissileff\/dp\/1942134231. \r\nHer journalism appears in many publications; she has taught most recently at the University of Pittsburgh. Visit her online at www.bethkissileff.com. ","short_description":"Beth Kissileff is the editor of the anthology Reading Genesis (Bloomsbury\/ T and T Clark, 2016) , a journalist and teacher.","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":36664,"alt":"","title":"BethKissileff","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BethKissileff-e1533157952224.jpg","width":3478,"height":3200,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BethKissileff-e1533157952224-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BethKissileff-e1533157952224-300x276.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":276,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BethKissileff-e1533157952224-768x707.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":707,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BethKissileff-e1533157952224-1024x942.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":942,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BethKissileff-e1533157952224.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1413,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BethKissileff-e1533157952224.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1884,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BethKissileff-e1533157952224-1200x1104.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1104,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BethKissileff-e1533157952224-456x420.jpg","home_baner-width":456,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"1048","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"The first step to changing behavior is using language","post_main_content_content":"

Many of the Torah portions are known by their \u201cgreatest hits,\u201d the high moments they contain. When we think of Naso we usually think of the perplexing case of the ordeal of the sotah <\/em>ritual (Numbers 5: 11-31) where a woman suspected of adultery must undergo an ordeal meant to ascertain whether the suspicions of her spouse are warranted or not, the only ritual of its kind in the Torah, and of the priestly blessing (Numbers 6:24-26), the oldest part of the Bible known to us in writing, found by archaeologists in amulets at Ketef Hinnom in Jerusalem next to the Menachem Begin Heritage Center.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

I want to examine another section in this portion of 176 verses whose \u201ccode word,\u201d the word whose Hebrew letters have the numerical value of 176, is \u201cAmminadav,\u201d meaning: \"my people is generous\" or \"volunteered.\"<\/p>\r\n

The section before the sotah <\/em>ritual, Numbers 5: 5-10 is about thievery and has been explicated already in a similar section in Leviticus 5:20-26. However, what is new here is the mitzvah to confess, listed by the medieval Sefer Hachinuch as one of the 613 mitzvot. The explanation given is that \u201cWe are commanded to confess before God our sins that we have sinned, at such time that we feel remorse for them.\" The lengthy explanation here is \u201cthat confession is an independent commandment and that it is practiced in all places.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

So why is this commandment to confess sin here in this portion? Naso is concerned with bringing out publicly things that may have been private by the use of language. The Nazirite who takes vows is publicly declaring his or her desire to lead an abstemious religious life. The possibly adulterous woman is bringing out publicly her status as to whether or not she is guilty. The priests blessing the nation, are expressing the feelings of God for the people, later adapted by parents to voice their love for a child and desire to protect him or her. When Moses speaks from the Tent of Meeting to God in the last verse of Naso, he only hears God. Unlike at the Sinai theophany, he does not see him. It is the hearing of the words that informs his relationship.<\/p>\r\n

Central to all these rites and rituals is language. It makes sense then that the mitzvah of verbal confession should be here since verbal confession makes change possible. When language is used in a generous way, as the \u201ccode word\u201d for this portion expresses, it is possible to reflect on one\u2019s actions that the world around us can be different, whether it is by expressing love in a blessing or conveying regret for past action.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

None of us hopes to sin, but we learn from Naso that confession is the first step to atonement.\u00a0<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":106637,"alt":"","title":"-62dc5e374a737--62dc5e374a739num5-words have 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\u201cWhat is really yours?\u201d <\/span><\/a>by Nelly Altenburger: Perspectives on ownership from Jewish texts. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cTexts of Affliction, Bitterness, and Complaint: Job, Naomi, Hannah\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Penina Weinberg: Tracing \u201cbitterness\u201d throughout the Bible.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Numbers 5","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Click to get links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"5","chapter_main_number":"122","date":"20260216","wall_id":"122"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":21,"id":"106631","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 5 ","post_title":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 5","slug":"points-to-ponder-numbers-5","old_id":"106631","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":false,"related_cahpter":"122","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. An offering of jealousy?<\/em> The ordeal of the <\/span>sotah<\/span><\/em> is accompanied by a sacrifice. The raw materials of the offering reflect the difficult atmosphere, which definitely lack a festive nature: \u201cNo oil shall be poured upon it and no frankincense shall be laid on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of remembrance which recalls wrongdoing\u201d (15).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Mourning - or humiliation?<\/em> \u201cThe priest shall bare the woman\u2019s head\u201d (verse 18). The baring of the head of a woman whose hair is normally gathered and covered is both a symbol of mourning - and humiliation. Whichever - it isn\u2019t very nice.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Adulteress or <\/span>sotah<\/span><\/em>? <\/em>One of the questions (and there are many) around the ordeal of the <\/span>sotah<\/span><\/em> is: if the test reveals that the suspicion is justified and the woman is indeed an adulteress, why is she not simply punished with the punishment that the law decrees? Perhaps to soften the very human jealousy and desire for revenge? Or perhaps because there is no direct human testimony - so that everything is the hands of heaven, both the trial and the punishment.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The fertility trial<\/em>. Both the curse, if the ordeal reveals that she sinned, and the blessing, if the suspicion turns out to have been in vain, deal with the fertility of the woman, and its success or failure. Sort of tit for tat. <\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Numbers 5","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"Numbers","chapter":"5","chapter_main_number":"122","date":"20260216","wall_id":"122"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/46524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}