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In the middle of chapter 3 there is a verse that seems out of place: \u201cNow select twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe\u201d (verse 12). The text does not explain what should be done with these twelve people, and the story simply continues. It is not until chapter 4 that their job is revealed:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Select twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and instruct them as follows: \u2018Pick up twelve stones from the spot exactly in the middle of the Jordan, where the priests\u2019 feet are standing; take them along with you and deposit them in the place where you will spend the night\u2019 (verses 2-3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The chapter emphasizes that these stones are to be taken from the actual feet of the priests in the river. What are these twelve stones?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At first, they seem like they could be the stones that Moses commands back in Deuteronomy:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As soon as you have crossed the Jordan into the land that your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones. Coat them with plaster and inscribe upon them all the words of this Teaching (Deut. 27:2-3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there are some differences. Joshua does not command anything beyond simply taking the stones as a sign. He does not instruct the people to inscribe anything on the stones. The stones also are kept in the camp and not brought to Mt. Ebal or accompanied by a sacrificial ceremony, as they are supposed to be in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy also does not mention twelve stones or that they should be taken from the river.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi believes Joshua is doing exactly what Moses instructed, it just is not mentioned in the text. The problem with Rashi beyond the differences mentioned above is following through with the command of Moses seems to take place in chapter 8 at Mt. Ebal. That is also well after the people cross the Jordan. It is possible that Joshua is simply borrowing the idea from Moses, and using it here to continue the theme in chapter 3 of the priestly carriers of the Ark. This is why he instructs each tribe to take stones from the very spot where the priests stood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This Jordan crossing souvenir is meant as a reminder for each tribe that the nation did not do this on their own. God was with them from the very beginning and God will continue to be with the people in the new land, even if it will not be as obvious all the time as the splitting of the Jordan river.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Throughout history victorious nations mark their achievements through architectural monuments, and the Jewish people are no different. Upon entering the Land, Joshua constructs a monument from twelve stones to mark the achievement of crossing the Jordan River.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This shall serve as a symbol among you: in time to come, when your children ask, \u2018What is the meaning of these stones for you?\u2019 you shall tell them, \u2018The waters of the Jordan were cut off because of the Ark of the Lord\u2019s Covenant; when it passed through the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.\u2019 And so these stones shall serve the people of Israel as a memorial for all time.\u201d (Joshua 4:6-7)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The text tells us that Joshua created a monument to commemorate a specific historical moment, that marked the nation\u2019s inaugural moment of conquest and developing the land into a great country; a sentiment to live on in the collective memory of future Israelites.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This tension between memory and history is pertinent in discussions of memorials and monuments. Nation-building memorials in particular affirm the greatness of a nation\u2019s birth, glorify war, and importantly concretize a certain historical moment into the nation\u2019s collective memory. Further, and importantly for this text, they often form a specific perspective and one that promotes an indigenous reading. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here Joshua is doing just that, reading the memorial formally, i.e. how the text describes the physical attributes. The twelve stones represent the twelve tribes, but the choice to use stones is significant. Stones come from the ground<\/span>, so rocks and other earthen materials are a way to connect disparate landscapes, symbolically linking two district geographic locations. Here the use of the stones is a way to visually and conceptually link the people to the land and mark their reclaiming of it. Further, the text makes no mention of carving, shaping or altering the stones in any way, so we can assume they were assembled in their natural state, which could be read as a statement about indigeneity and the Jewish people\u2019s right to this place. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This symbolic association of rocks and geography is found in another instance of monument building recounted in the Bible. There are two instances in Jacob\u2019s life when he builds monuments: first, after his dream on his way to Laban\u2019s house (Genesis 28:18) , and second with Laban marking the separation between their households (Genesis 31: 51). In both of these instances Jacob uses stones to monumentalize geographical changes in his life and declare his connection to disparate landscapes. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Additionally, in the 20<\/span>th<\/span> Century, Jewish communities used stones to form memorials to the Shoah. The stones serve as metonyms for unrecovered graves, but in addition often symbolize the geography of the Shoah itself and the subsequent dispersal of European Jewry and culture. Just as with Joshua marking the Israelites\u2019 entrance into the land of Israel with stones, in the twentieth century Jews use the medium to signify the contemporary return of the Jewish people to Israel. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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A second wall of water allowing the children of Israel to pass toward freedom on dry land. This time the miracle isn\u2019t that of the Reed Sea and Passover, but rather the Jordan River marking the boundary into the Promised Land, the Land of Israel. And to mark this miracle in the consciousness of the people, God commands Joshua that representatives of each tribe should take a stone from the very center of the Jordan River bed, where the Priests were standing with the Ark, and carry those stones with them to the other side, creating a memorial in the site of their first encampment in the Land. This memorial was to teach the unity of the twelve tribes and the significance of Torah (fulfilling the earlier command to Moses \u2013 Deuteronomy 27:1-9 \u2013 that the words of the Torah were to be painted onto the public marking stones).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But in far stranger act, Joshua takes 12 stones \u2013 one per tribe \u2013 and creates a similar memorial in the middle of the Jordan River, at the very spot where the Priests were standing. The odd detail is that with the return of the Jordan\u2019s water, this memorial is now submerged. No one can see it; no one knows its location. Odder still: there is no record of God commanding this underwater monument. It appears that Joshua did it under his own initiative.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is the point of a monument that no one can see?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps we are invited to take an honest look at our own lives. What is the point of good deeds that don\u2019t earn us fame and status? What is the point of hard work that isn\u2019t celebrated or public? What is the point of acts of caring and nurture if they are forgotten?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Turns out that most of what we do with our lives are not remembered, neither by the recipients of our efforts, nor by subsequent generations. Perhaps we are invited to realize that the significance of what we do, how we contribute to the greater good, is found in our own satisfaction and in God\u2019s memory.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Human praise is fickle and ephemeral. To close one\u2019s eyes at the day\u2019s end knowing we have done our best, made a positive difference, advanced the goal just a little bit \u2013 well, that is what we are offered as reward, and it suffices. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God knows. It is enough.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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While perhaps not as climactic or well-known as the Israelites\u2019 flight across the Sea of Reeds in Exodus 14, the account in Joshua 4 of another miraculous water crossing is worth remembering\u2014with the help of no fewer than twenty-four monumental stones, according to this chapter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The twelve stones that God commands Joshua to set up on the bank of the Jordan make sense. They make sense as enduring witnesses to the moment that the Israelites set foot in the land that was destined to be theirs. They make sense as a monument to the twelve tribes that together form one people. These twelve stones, drawn from the very river whose waters \u201cwere cut off because of the Ark of the Lord\u2019s Covenant\u201d (Joshua 4:7) to allow the people to cross and erected at the very site where they emerged dry-shod into a new phase of their journey home, make symbolic sense as \u201ca memorial for all time\u201d (ibid.), one to inspire children to ask questions and hear soul-bolstering tales of their ancestors\u2019 miraculous arrival in the land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The other twelve stones in this chapter, however, are a bit of a head-scratcher. In 4:9, just after we read that each tribal representative did as their leader had commanded and carried a stone out of the Jordan to be set up on the shore, Joshua does something curious: \u201cJoshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, at the spot where the feet of the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant had stood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why bother? The waters of the Jordan, after all, rushed in and submerged this second set of stones as soon the Ark and its priestly escort joined the rest of the Israelites on the shore. What was the point of leaving rocks in the riverbed, where only a drought might reveal them?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When our personal rivers are running full, it might be enough to look back at a milestone accomplishment and give thanks for the moment that we \u201cmade it.\u201d In times when our souls are parched, though, perhaps it is especially important to recall the journey that took us to our past victories. We might then draw strength from the knowledge that we <\/span>can<\/span><\/i> make it, if only we walk the path step by step.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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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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Our chapter continues the narrative of Crossing the Jordan: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them: Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you...These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever\u2026 And they are there to this day ... Joshua said to the Israelites: In the future when your descendants ask their parents: What do these stones mean?\u2019 tell them, Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground. For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Sea of Reeds when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God\u201d (Joshua 4:4-24).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In what way the stones taken from the Jordan may still be \u201cthere to this day\u201d is a question for archaeologists, historians and biblical commentators. According to the Metzudat David commentary to Joshua 4:9, the twelve stones continue to exist for anyone reading this phrase now and forever. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But, as a living memorial to the Crossing of the Jordan, the Israeli Knesset, in 2016, declared \u201cthe tenth day of the first month, when the people went up from the Jordan\u201d an annual national holiday, \u201cAliyah Day\u201d, to commemorate the Jewish People entering the Land of Israel in the time of Joshua \u2013 regarded as the original \u201cAliyah\u201d. This year the tenth of the Hebrew month of Nisan (the \u201cfirst month\u201d according to Biblical reckoning) falls on April 15, 2019. \u201cAliyah Day\u201d is also celebrated to acknowledge modern Aliyah, immigration to the restored Jewish State, and to honor the ongoing contributions of Olim (\"Jewish immigrants\") to Israeli society.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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At the close of the previous chapter, we left the priests immersed up to their feet in water on the eastern bank of the Jordan, waiting with the Ark while the rest of the people crossed over. When that crossing was complete, God instructed Joshua to have the priests \u201cascend from the Jordan\u201d (verses 16-17) and \u201cas soon as the soles of the priests' feet were drawn up unto the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place as before\u201d (18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To which \u201cdry ground\u201d were the priests\u2019 feet drawn up? While logic would have it that the reference is to the west bank of the Jordan\u2014where the rest of the nation awaited them\u2014a remarkable Midrash insists that the priests retreated to the eastern bank, whereupon \u201cthe Ark bore its bearers aloft and crossed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak; Provence, 1160-1235), a critic of midrashic excess, wrote:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I find this homily [<\/span>derash<\/span><\/i>] perplexing: \u00a0What forced [the rabbis] into [this interpretation] of these verses... \u00a0Even if we were to grant their premise, i.e., that the reference is to the bank of the Jordan whence they entered, [it would mean that] after all the people crossed, the ark followed them across to dry land, and when the feet of the <\/span>kohanim<\/span><\/i> were removed to the dry land <\/span>on the other<\/span><\/i> [western] <\/span>side<\/span><\/i> the waters resumed their course\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What need is there to have the ark bear its bearers and cross? \u00a0And if such a miracle did actually occur, would not the verse have said [explicitly] that the ark bore its bearers aloft above the water?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite Radak\u2019s critique, this Midrash reprises itself apropos of 2 Samuel 6:6 ff. When Uzzah reaches out out to prevent the Ark from slipping off the wagon transporting it back from the Philistines, God slays him. His crime, said Rashi: If the Ark could hold its bearers aloft, surely it needed no assistance to keep itself intact.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. They kept their promise<\/em>. The tribes of Gad, Reuben and half the tribe of Menashe, who promised to cross the river and go ahead as a vanguard, do precisely that in verses 12-13.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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  3. 12.<\/em> A strong number. It may symbolize the challenge of uniting twelve tribes into one national entity, with a common national memory.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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