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But before allowing the soldier to marry his captive, the Torah demands an unusual protocol: \"\u2026and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails, and remove her captive's garb, and remain in your house and mourn for her father and mother a full month, and after that you may go unto her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n Rashi explains that the goal of this procedure is to dissuade the soldier from acting on his desire: \"The text is only addressing the <\/span>yetzer ha-ra<\/span><\/em> [evil inclination], for if the Holy One, blessed be He, would not permit her to him, he would marry her illegally\u2026\" \u00a0Rashi even portrays the woman as a wanton temptress: her \"captive's garb\" is not a prisoner's rags, but rather the raiment that heathen women would wear to the battlefield to seduce the enemy. \u00a0The hope is that when reduced to a pitiful mourner, the captive woman<\/span> will lose her allure, thus saving the soldier from a decision he is sure to regret. Indeed, Rashi reads the passage's conclusion \u2013 \"And if it comes to pass that you do not desire her\u2026\" \u2013 as a virtual prophecy: \"The text is foretelling that he will come to hate her.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n Yet other commentators suggest that the Torah's protocol reflects concern for the captive woman herself, who has just been violently torn from her family and homeland. For example, Abraham Ibn Ezra cites Rashi\u2019s explanation why the woman must remove her captive's garb, but then offers a more mundane reason: \"for it is soiled.\" Similarly, \u00a0Maimonides explains that the purpose of month-long mourning period is to afford the woman a grace period to mourn her losses and come to terms with the new life that is being forced upon her (<\/span>Guide to the Perplexed,<\/span><\/em> 3:41).<\/span><\/p>\r\n One may suggest that these commentators, too, see the Torah's protocol as addressing the soldier's evil inclination. But whereas Rashi \u00a0views the evil inclination as a force from without, in the form of the beautiful seductress, for Ibn Ezra and Maimonides, the evil inclination comes from within: the temptation to treat one's<\/span> captive as a sexual plaything, to be used and discarded at will. This message is reinforced by the passage's conclusion: \"And if it comes to pass that you do not desire her, you shall set her free, but you shall not sell her for money \u2013 you shall not use her, since you have debased her.\" <\/span><\/p>\r\n In mandating sensitivity to the captive woman's emotional needs, the Torah reminds us that even in war, we must treat all with humanity and dignity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Image: 1877, Konstantin Makovsky: The Bulgarian Martyresses<\/a> (detail)<\/span> \u201cIf a man has two wives, one loved, the other unloved [<\/span>senuah<\/span><\/em>], and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the unloved one, when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the loved one in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the unloved one. He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father\u2019s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him\u201d (21:15\u201317).<\/span><\/p>\r\n In the Hebrew, this passage is saturated with linguistic evocations of Genesis and the rivalry between Leah and Rachel and their respective sons. The same key word, <\/span>senuah<\/span><\/em>, \u2018unloved\u2019, appears in both, and these are the only occurrences of the word in the Pentateuch. The phrase \u2018first sign of his father\u2019s strength\u2019 is the same as that used by Jacob on his deathbed, referring to Reuben, Leah\u2019s (and his) firstborn (Gen. 49:3\u20134). The reference to \u2018double share\u2019 recalls Jacob\u2019s words to Joseph, firstborn of his beloved Rachel, \u2018To you I gave one portion more than to your brothers\u2019 (48:22). He does this by giving Joseph\u2019s two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, the status of tribes in their own right (48:5). The intertextuality of the two passages is unmistakable. <\/span><\/p>\r\n So is the implication: Jacob\u2019s behaviour is <\/span>not<\/em> <\/span>to become normative for his descendants. What he did then, is now forbidden. <\/span>There are to be no more dramas of chosen and rejected sons, preferential treatment, favoritism, and the psycho-dynamics of sibling rivalry<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\r\n Deuteronomy brings belated closure to the narratives of Genesis. No more will the younger usurp the older. From: <\/span>Not in God\u2019s Name<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> p.176-177<\/span><\/p>\r\n image: Benjamin West,\u00a0Jacob Blessing Ephraim and Manasseh<\/em>, detail, 1766-68 \/ 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In 2006, Bregman was appointed the Herman and Zelda Bernard Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, where he also headed the program in Jewish Studies, until 2013. Bregman retired from UNCG as of July 31, 2017. 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The elders of the town nearest to the corpse shall then take a heifer which has never been worked, which has never pulled in a yoke; and the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to an ever flowing wadi, which is not tilled or sown. There, in the wadi, they shall break the heifer\u2019s neck\u2026Then all the elders of the town nearest to the corpse shall wash their hands over the heifer... And they shall make this declaration: \u2018Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. Absolve, O Lord, Your people Israel whom You redeemed, and do not let guilt for the blood of the innocent remain among Your people Israel\u2026\u2019 (21:1-9). <\/span><\/p>\r\n Even one of the greatest minds in Jewish history seems to have puzzled over this rather strange rite. In his Mishneh Torah (<\/span>Me`illah<\/span><\/em> 8:8), Maimonides lists this law as one of the <\/span>hukkim<\/span><\/em> whose rationale is simply not known. But, in his Guide for the Perplexed (3:40), Maimonides provides a rationalist explanation, that such an unpleasant requirement ensures that every possible means will be exhausted to try to identify whomever is guilty of the death of a slain individual. <\/span><\/p>\r\n The Midrash (Genesis Rabbah 94:3, see also Rashi to Genesis 45:27) mentions that this biblical law was studied already in the time of the Patriarchs. According to the biblical narrative (Genesis 45:26-28), Jacob believed that his most beloved son, Joseph, was still alive, only when he saw the \u201cwagons\u201d Joseph sent to bring his aged father to him in Egypt. However, the Midrash relates that Jacob believed that Joseph was still alive when he saw not \u201cwagons\u201d (\u2018agalot<\/em>) but \u201cheifers\u201d (\u2018agalot<\/em>), which reminded him that when he and Joseph were last together they were studying the law of \u2018eglah \u2018arufah<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\r\n From this imaginative narrative, the Midrash goes on to derive that all the Patriarchs studied Torah, well before it was actually revealed to the Israelites at Sinai! And thus, God said to Abraham: In this world you taught Torah to your children. 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\r\n<\/span>In the botanical gardens, or along the promenade by the sea.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She carries a parasol to shade her fair skin from the sun<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As we discuss Donne\u2019s sonnets and Shakespeare\u2019s plays.<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>Every Friday evening we sit together by candlelight<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And drink wine, as her fingers gently clasp mine.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She rests her head on my shoulder as we whisper<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Verses from <\/span>The Song Of Songs<\/span><\/i> to one another.<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>Wears thick woolen sweaters to ward off the cold,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And loves the sun; and I love how the sun<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Is reflected in her thick, blonde hair when she lowers the parasol<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And talks of her teachers, Blake and Keats.<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>Wears a thin shawl of many colors to ward off the evil eye,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And loves the twilight; and I love how the twilight<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Is reflected in her large, brown eyes<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When she speaks of her teachers, Jeremiah and Rabbi Nachman.<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>In a bed of marital intimacy,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>These two merge into one:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>One voice, one life,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>One bond, one love, one wife.<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>In our private language, a vow:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cI have betrothed thee unto myself<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>B\u2019emunah <\/span><\/i>\u2014 In faithfulness,<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>L\u2019olam<\/span><\/i> \u2014 Forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n
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