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Whatever your position on Israeli politics may be, it's hard to escape the irony that some of the places where Jewish ownership and sovereignty are most called into question today are precisely the places where \u00a0the Torah goes out of its way to detail the story of their purchase. First among these purchases is the cave of Machpela in chapter 23.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But alongside this irony, it is fascinating to note that the very act of Abraham's purchase highlights his refusal to fully act as owner of the land that he has been promised. Although the residents of Het call him a Prince of God, Abraham acts in a manner so humble as to border on the servile, bowing to the people, and insisting on paying full price for land that he is offered for free, and that he has been promised by God. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

From the outset, Abraham defines his relationship to the land which dictates his self-effacing attitude as that of a 'stranger and resident', not as a lord. With this phrase, Abraham anticipates the attitude to the land that God aims to impress upon the Jewish people as a whole when we enter and conquer it. With the very same phrase, 'for you are strangers and residents' (Lev. 25:23), God explains the rationale behind the institutions of shmita<\/em> and yovel<\/em> (the sabbatical and jubilee years), whose purpose is to ensure that, no matter how much sovereignty and ownership we enjoy, we must always remember to act with the humility of the stranger and resident, for the whole land is God's. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In today's chapter, Abraham is the first one to teach us this first principle of sovereignty, a principle all the more relevant in our days of renewed Jewish sovereignty: you are only ready to possess this land when you are prepared to act, not as an owner, but as a humble 'stranger and resident' within it. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Why does the Torah tell us of Sarah\u2019s death right after it tells us the story of the Akedah, the binding of her son Isaac? Rashi answers that when Sarah received the news that her son was almost slaughtered, her soul flew from her and she died. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi\u2019s draws his brief answer from earlier midrashic traditions. In one of these traditions, when Isaac returns from the Akedah, Sarah asks him where he has been. He replies that his father took him on a journey and was about to kill him when an angel interceded. On hearing Isaac\u2019s answer, Sarah cries out six times, cries which correspond to the shofar sounds, and then she dies (Leviticus Rabbah 20:2). \u00a0The midrash from Leviticus Rabbah focuses on the effect of Abraham\u2019s actions on Sarah. She dies from shock, from the news of what her <\/span>husband <\/span><\/i>was about to do to their son. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Rashi\u2019s briefer comment, one that does not name Abraham, offers us another possibility. Genesis 23:1 concludes with the words \u201c<\/span>sh'nei hayyei sarah<\/span><\/em>,\u201d most easily translated as, \u201cthe years of Sarah\u2019s life.\u201d But the word \u201c<\/span>sh'nei<\/span><\/em>\u201d (years) can also be understood midrashically as \u201ctwo.\u201d Sarah had two lives, or rather two understandings of her life: one from before the Akedah and one after. When Sarah receives the news of her son Isaac\u2019s near slaughter by his father, she finally understands what <\/span>she<\/em> <\/span>did to Hagar in casting her out with her son Ishmael to almost death in the desert. She dies not only because of her husband\u2019s actions, but also because of her own. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sarah dies after the Akedah from a deep and tragic sadness, knowing now the suffering she caused another mother like her.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":56733,"alt":"","title":"isam1-sarah_hagar","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","width":345,"height":210,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar-300x183.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":183,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","medium_large-width":345,"medium_large-height":210,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","large-width":345,"large-height":210,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","1536x1536-width":345,"1536x1536-height":210,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","2048x2048-width":345,"2048x2048-height":210,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","post_full_size-width":345,"post_full_size-height":210,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","home_baner-width":345,"home_baner-height":210}},"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":"Sarah Finally Understands the Suffering She Caused","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Sarah dies not only because of her husband\u2019s actions, but also because of her own","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":56733,"alt":"","title":"isam1-sarah_hagar","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","width":345,"height":210,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar-300x183.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":183,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","medium_large-width":345,"medium_large-height":210,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","large-width":345,"large-height":210,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","1536x1536-width":345,"1536x1536-height":210,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","2048x2048-width":345,"2048x2048-height":210,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","post_full_size-width":345,"post_full_size-height":210,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam1-sarah_hagar.jpg","home_baner-width":345,"home_baner-height":210}},"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":"23","chapter_main_number":"23","date":"20250930","wall_id":"23"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"391","name":"In\/Justice","old_id":"791"},{"term_id":"427","name":"Sarah","old_id":"827"},{"term_id":"428","name":"Parent","old_id":"828"}]},{"order":3,"id":"37717","color":"#f8ebe3","size":"1","name":"MiliMiliM - The Hebrew Corner - Gen 23 ","post_title":"MiliMiliM - The Hebrew Corner - Gen 23","slug":"milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-gen-23","old_id":"37717","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":false,"related_cahpter":"23","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"\u05d2\u05e8 - Ger - Alien, Stranger","post_main_content_content":"

Then Abraham rose from beside his dead, and spoke to the Hittites, saying, \u201cI am a resident alien among you; sell me a burial site among you, that I may remove my dead for burial\" <\/em>(23: 3-4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u05d2\u05e8<\/span> Ger<\/span><\/em>, originally meant alien, or stranger\u2013 as in \"stranger in a strange land\" (Exodus 2:22). That is certainly what Abraham is referring to above: \"I'm not from here. Be nice.\"\u00a0Ger<\/em> is connected to the verb\u00a0gar,<\/em> \"dwell, living temporarily in a place.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But he adds that he is a <\/span>toshav<\/span><\/em>, a resident, not just randomly passing through \u2013 thus the need for the grave site.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In later Biblical law, it seems that the term <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em> referred to individuals who had some sort of residency, some ties to the community. Not full members of the Israelite community, but fellow travelers, as it were, who along with other disenfranchised populations, such as widows and orphans, required protection. There shall be one law for the \u05d2\u05e8 <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em> and for the citizen (Lev. 19:34, Num. 15:15-16) \u2013 and even show love to them: \"you shall love the <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em>\" (Deut. 10:19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From this developed the term <\/span>ger tzedek<\/span><\/em>, \"a righteous <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em>\" <\/span><\/i>meaning a convert. And finally just the word <\/span>ger<\/span><\/em> came to denote a convert, with the associated terms: <\/span>giyur<\/span><\/em>, \"conversion,\" <\/span>legayer<\/span><\/em>, \"to convert (another),\" and <\/span>lehitgayer<\/span><\/em>, \"to become a convert.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Note though that <\/span>ger<\/em> <\/span>= \"convert\" was clearly not the case in the Torah, since all the concern about <\/span>gerim<\/em> <\/span>(pl.) \u2013 treat them well, don't oppress them, equal standing before the law \u2013 is based on the Jew's own experience as oppressed <\/span>gerim<\/span><\/em> in Egypt \u2013 aliens, not converts!<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":102715,"alt":"","title":"-6225ab871038a--6225ab871038bgen23-milim ger.jpg","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6225ab871038a-6225ab871038bgen23-milim-ger.jpg.jpg","width":1253,"height":595,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6225ab871038a-6225ab871038bgen23-milim-ger.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6225ab871038a-6225ab871038bgen23-milim-ger.jpg-300x142.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":142,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6225ab871038a-6225ab871038bgen23-milim-ger.jpg-768x365.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":365,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6225ab871038a-6225ab871038bgen23-milim-ger.jpg-1024x486.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":486,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6225ab871038a-6225ab871038bgen23-milim-ger.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":1253,"1536x1536-height":595,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6225ab871038a-6225ab871038bgen23-milim-ger.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":1253,"2048x2048-height":595,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6225ab871038a-6225ab871038bgen23-milim-ger.jpg-1200x570.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":570,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/08\/6225ab871038a-6225ab871038bgen23-milim-ger.jpg-884x420.jpg","home_baner-width":884,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"

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At the beginning of Joshua\u2019s allotment of the land among the tribes of Israel, he begins by fulfilling an old debt. Alone of all the spies who had investigated the possibilities of settling in the Land of Israel, only Joshua and Caleb had chosen a positive perspective, one that affirmed that the children of Israel would find a suitable resting place there. Caleb steps forward, first even among the Tribe of Judah, to claim his right to a home. \u00a0\u201cOn that day, Moses promised [Caleb] on oath, \u2018The land on which your foot trod shall be a portion for you and your descendants forever\u2019 (Joshua 14:9).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Caleb recounts that at the time of the initial reconnaissance into Israel, he was a strapping man of 40 years old. Now, many years later, he is an elder sage of 85 years. Yet, he claims, he has been uniquely blessed: \u201c\u2026here I am today, 85 years old. I am still as strong today as on the day that Moses sent me; my strength is the same now as it was then (Joshua 14:11).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Linking his extraordinary resilience to his loyalty to an expansive vision of hope almost a half century earlier, Caleb can been understood as connecting his vitality to his optimism. Indeed, the commentary Be\u2019er Moshe interprets this as a claim about his ability to fight his yetzer ha-ra<\/em>, his evil inclination. At every age, a person\u2019s greatest battle is internal, a struggle to subdue their corrosive lusts or destructive urges, and to sublimate them for a greater good. In this reading, Caleb recognizes that his inner strength is the key to his rising to make the right choice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Consequences flow from that inner resilience. He is given the city of Hebron, which becomes one of the Levitical cities of refuge in a later stage of Jewish history. Woven into the essence of the place is the idea of restraining lust for power and control, choosing instead the path of hope, restraint, and morality. For that reason, Hebron is honored to become a place where people falsely accused can flee and expect safety.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After the gift of Hebron, we are told that \u201cthe land had rest from war (Joshua 14:15).\u201d Redemption, it seems, flows from inner restraint, resilience across the years, and creating a refuge from the swampland of human avarice, power, and greed. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In singling out Caleb, the Book of Joshua invites us to internalize a better way.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":56227,"alt":"","title":"jud16-strength","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength.png","width":954,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-224x300.png","medium-width":224,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-763x1024.png","medium_large-width":763,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-763x1024.png","large-width":763,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength.png","1536x1536-width":954,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength.png","2048x2048-width":954,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-894x1200.png","post_full_size-width":894,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-313x420.png","home_baner-width":313,"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":"Resilience, Refuge, Restraint and Redemption","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Joshua\u2019s old buddy Caleb is a model of vigor and optimism","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":56227,"alt":"","title":"jud16-strength","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength.png","width":954,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-224x300.png","medium-width":224,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-763x1024.png","medium_large-width":763,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-763x1024.png","large-width":763,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength.png","1536x1536-width":954,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength.png","2048x2048-width":954,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-894x1200.png","post_full_size-width":894,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud16-strength-313x420.png","home_baner-width":313,"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":"Prophets","book":"Joshua","chapter":"14","chapter_main_number":"201","date":"20260607","wall_id":"201"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"409","name":"Peace","old_id":"809"},{"term_id":"808","name":"Strength","old_id":"1208"},{"term_id":"809","name":"Caleb","old_id":"1209"}]},{"order":5,"id":"109202","color":"#eceffa","size":"1","name":"Caleb Finally Gets The Credit Due Him ","post_title":"Caleb Finally Gets The Credit Due Him","slug":"caleb-finally-gets-the-credit-due-him","old_id":"109202","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":78133,"post_title":"Josh Blechner","slug":"josh-blechner","old_id":"78133","first_name":"Josh ","last_name":"Blechner ","description":"Josh first finished the Tanach during Yeshiva in Mevaseret Zion. 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\u201cThe British are coming!\u201d Paul Revere yelled as recorded in the famous Longfellow poem. But Revere did not ride alone and Revere did not actually finish the ride. Samuel Prescott, a fellow midnight rider, was able to evade British patrols and complete the journey to warn the colonists up the countryside. Despite Prescott\u2019s more successful ride, Revere gets all the praise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Back in the book of Numbers, when the spies returned with their distorted report only two men stood up to the mob: Joshua and Caleb. In fact, it was Caleb that really did most of the talking. \u201cCaleb hushed the people before Moses and said, \u2018Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it\u2019\u201d (Numbers 14:25). Perhaps Joshua was nervous to speak up in front of his teacher, but Caleb had no such qualms. Joshua only joined Caleb after Caleb spoke up the first time.\u00a0 Caleb and Joshua are forever linked thereafter as the only two who survive the forty-year sojourn. Joshua becomes the leader of the people, but except for a few repetitions of the story of the scouts, Caleb disappears from the story until now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The tribe of Judah accompanies Caleb to petition Joshua for Hebron. The commentators link this to a verse in the beginning of Deuteronomy for this promise: \u201cnone except Caleb\u2026to him and his descendants will I give the land on which he set foot, because he remained loyal to God\u201d (Deuteronomy 1:36). The \u201cland on which he set foot\u201d is then linked to Hebron via this verse: \u201cThey went up into the Negeb and he came to Hebron\u2026\u201d (Numbers 13:22). The verse\u00a0 begins in the plural referring to all the spies, but then continues in the singular. The commentators understand this switch to mean that only Caleb went to Hebron, either because he was not afraid of the warrior inhabitants, or because he went to pray at the Cave of the Patriarchs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This midrash again shows Caleb\u2019s initiative without Joshua. Caleb went there completely on his own, which means Joshua did not accompany him. Perhaps Caleb is a little resentful that not only has Joshua gotten all the praise, but he also seems to have forgotten the promise made to his fellow scout. He needles Joshua a little more: \u201cI am still as strong today as on the day that Moses sent me; my strength is the same now as it was then, for battle and for activity\u201d (verse 11). This sounds like the description given of Moses at the end of his life and very different from the one given of Joshua at the start of chapter 13. Joshua must have understood the slight and decided to do more than just assign the land: \u201cSo Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephuneh, and assigned Hebron to him as his portion.\u201d (verse 15). Joshua\u2019s blessing is a way to right this wrong and give Caleb the respect he deserves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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I like Joshua very much, and not only because we share a name. I like him because he\u2019s not perfect. I see him as an unwilling politician, forced into the role after being the devout disciple of Moses. Maybe anachronistically, I picture him as a dreamy-eyed rabbinical student, forced to make difficult political and military decisions, trying to please the various powerful tribes, and all the time trying to stay true to God and to his own truth. Sometimes failing, to be sure, but more or less surviving - and the last chapter ended with the words \u201cAnd the land had rest from war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now, to split up the land, and get on with the task of living a normal life, building up the model society that the generation in the desert could only dream of. But the transition from Moses to Joshua, from ideal to reality, is difficult. The Talmud (Temurah 16a) tells a fantastic story about this transition:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the days of mourning for Moses, Joshua forgot three hundred laws and was overcome by seven hundred doubts, and the people of Israel were ready to kill him\u2026 nonetheless, Othniel son of Kenaz was able to restore them through his sharp reasoning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How did the Talmud arrive at such a conclusion? In our chapter, verses 15 to 19, we read that Caleb offers his daughter in marriage to anyone who can capture the fortified city called Kiryat Sefer - literally, \u2018the city of the book.\u2019 Othniel is able to capture the city, and metaphorically, he can take control over the book of the Torah. While Joshua is troubled with doubts, and is pained by the lack of clarity that he had in the past, Othniel realizes that the only way forward is to reinterpret the Torah and continue the process of revelation in a new and relevant way. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This clash of ideal and reality comes around again at the end of the chapter. Reading through the long list of place-names, some foreign and some familiar, we imagine the tribe of Judah building up their ideal society afresh. But in the last verse, we see that they couldn\u2019t defeat the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem. What to do? The ideal was to dispossess them. But the ideal can be reinterpreted to fit reality - \u201c<\/span>so the Judites dwell with the Jebusites in Jerusalem to this day.<\/span><\/i>\u201d (15:63) <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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How are we to understand Akhsa, Caleb's forceful daughter who makes her point with such dynamic assurance? Her behavior recalls her own father Caleb's steadfast conviction even as it stands in critical contrast to her husband's successes on the battlefield. Confronted with the prospect of \"dry lands\" that appear barren and inhospitable, Akhsa does not lose her faith and throw up her hands in dejection. Rather, she is absolutely determined to make the best of her difficult situation, to improve upon it and to transform it into triumph. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The commentaries understood that her forceful alighting from the donkey was calculated to attract her father's attention and perhaps represented a show of entreaty. There may be an additional dimension as well: The donkey is the beast of choice for the nomadic shepherd who covers short distances. The great caravan routes that crisscrossed the region were typically covered by camel, an animal built for transporting heavy loads over long distances through inhospitable terrain, but the nomadic shepherd who did not range quite so far covered territory on foot or by his sturdy donkey. Perhaps Akhsa's forceful dismounting is meant to indicate to her startled father that she is determined to leave nomadic existence behind in order embrace the overwhelming task of homesteading, of farming, and of putting down roots even in difficult territory. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

With the national project of settling the land looming large on the horizon, her inspired conduct serves as an important example for her people. How will they confront the disappointment and disillusionment bound to arise when the wilderness \"myth\" of a land flowing with milk and honey is shattered by the more sobering reality of desolate and uncultivated expanses covered by scrub and forest and sometimes strewn with rock and ruin? Will the people of Israel lose heart because of the magnitude of the task placed before them and surrender to despair? Or will they rather take up their mission enthusiastically, cognizant of the fact that the settlement of the land will be a slow and laborious process that will not be completed by them, nor by their children, nor even by their grandchildren? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

While Otniel secures a military victory over the enemy army, it is Akhsa who will win the day by settling the land. Her determined attitude serves as a profound paradigm to her people: if they can internalize her tenacity then they will achieve success in the new land, in spite of the great challenges that lie before them. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: <\/span>Joshua: The Challenge of the Promised Land<\/em> <\/span>(Jerusalem: Koren, 2015); <\/span>Chapter: \u201cThe Tribal Boundary of Judah\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The extensive description of Joshua\u2019s allotment of areas of the Promised Land to the various Israelite tribes (Joshua, Chapters 13-22) continues in our chapter: \u201cThe allotment for the sons of Joseph [i.e. the tribes of Ephraim and Menashe] ran from the Jordan at Jericho , from the waters of Jericho east of the wilderness up into the hill country to Bethel. It went on from Bethel (i.e.to Luz) \u2026 ending at the Sea\u201d (verses 1-3). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the midst of this meticulous geographic mapping, one city stands out, according to both biblical and rabbinic tradition. Bethel (Beit-El) was the place near where Abram stayed and built an altar on his way to Egypt and on his return (Genesis 12:8, 13:3). Later Jacob, fearing the wrath of his brother Esau fled there, dreams of a ladder stretching from Heaven to Earth with angels ascending and descending. Standing above is God, who promises Jacob the land of Canaan. When Jacob awakes he cries out: \u201c\u2018How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven\u2026 \u2018 He called that place Beit-El [House of God], though the city used to be called Luz\u201d (see also Genesis 28:10-18, 35:6-8). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Significantly, \u201cLuz\u201d is also the Hebrew word for hazelnut (or almond, see Genesis 30:37). Because of the physical similarity of this nut to a human bone, its name became the Hebrew term for the \u201ctail-bone\u201d (coccyx) at the base of the spine. This small bone was regarded by the Rabbinic Sages and others as \u201cindestructible\u201d, in that it was said to never decay like the rest of the post-mortem remains and from which the new human body will be formed at the time of resurrection (Genesis Rabbah 28:3 and parallels). This chain of associations led to the Talmudic tradition (Talmud Bavli Sotah 46b) that the Angel of Death cannot take the life of those living in the city of Luz. Elsewhere (Sanhedrin 97a), the city of Luz is referred to as Kushta\u2019 (\u201cTruth\u201d in Aramaic), for no one there died unless they did not tell the exact truth. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The very human aspiration for finding a utopian \u201cCity of Immortality\u201d finds expression in the Far-Eastern legend of Shangri-La, made popular in the West through the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by the English writer James Hilton (and 1937 movie directed by Frank Capra), in which Shangri-La is depicted as an imaginary lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet. Subsequently, in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt named the US presidential retreat \"Shangri-La\", later renamed Camp David. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ironically, the first Israeli military missile was named \u201cLuz\u201d, perhaps in the expectation that this technical development would assist in granting \u201cimmortality\u201d to the Jewish State!<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":54217,"alt":"","title":"jo16-nuts","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-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":"Luz \u2013 A Hard Nut To Crack","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"City of Immortality, between the House of God and Shangri-La","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":54217,"alt":"","title":"jo16-nuts","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo16-nuts-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":"Prophets","book":"Joshua","chapter":"16","chapter_main_number":"203","date":"20260609","wall_id":"203"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"430","name":"Land of Israel","old_id":"830"},{"term_id":"490","name":"Jacob","old_id":"890"},{"term_id":"523","name":"Joseph","old_id":"923"}]},{"order":9,"id":"54239","color":"#e6f5f3","size":"2","name":"The Return of the Five Daughters ","post_title":"The Return of the Five Daughters","slug":"the-return-of-the-five-daughters","old_id":"54239","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":37333,"post_title":"Esther Jilovsky","slug":"esther-jilovsky","old_id":"37333","first_name":"Esther ","last_name":"Jilovsky","description":"Dr Esther Jilovsky is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. 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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The opening sets the scene: eighteenth-century English country house estates perhaps, or a charming shtetl in Tsarist Russia. We meet the characters: five sisters on the cusp of womanhood, a father with five daughters of marriageable age \u2013 protagonists of both Jane Austen\u2019s <\/span>Pride and Prejudice<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Fiddler on the Roof<\/span><\/i>. But, as Shakespeare reminds us in <\/span>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/span><\/i>, \u2018the course of true love never did run smooth\u2019. The middle of the story brings tension, action, drama, an insurmountable problem of cosmic proportions. The younger generation revolts against their parents\u2019 ways: daughters refuse to marry the man their father found for them, each declining to settle for a husband she knows is not right for her. Yet both these stories end with a resolution of sorts. The daughters make their choices, and their parents must live with their decisions, even if it means never speaking to their daughters again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Long before these stories, there was another family of five daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. We first meet these sisters in the Book of Numbers, as the people of Israel dwell in the wilderness. Just like the Bennet sisters and Tevye\u2019s daughters, the daughters of Zelophehad challenge their community\u2019s rules for young women. As they have no brothers, they are not entitled to inherit their late father\u2019s land. Yet they approach Moses, who does not immediately acquiesce to their request to inherit from their father, but consults with God, who agrees with the sisters. Thus the law is changed, and even though a couple of chapters later it is refined to restrict female heirs to marrying within their father\u2019s tribe, the entitlement of Zelophehad\u2019s daughters to inherit their father\u2019s land remains.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And yet the Torah gives us only the beginning, and the middle. For the ending of the story, we need to wait until deep in the Book of Joshua. Here, the people of Israel are no longer wandering in the desert. They have finally arrived in Canaan, the promised land. And Joshua, who has succeeded Moses as the leader of the Israelites, divides the land between the tribes. It is finally time for the daughters of Zelophehad to receive their inheritance. Yet, they have to ask for it. They approach Eleazar the Priest, Joshua, and the princes, explaining that \u2018God commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers\u2019 (Joshua 17:4). And thus, they are granted a portion of land belonging to Manasseh\u2019s tribe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The ending of a story is not always satisfying. It is gratifying to read that the daughters of Zelophehad finally receive what God promised to them. Realising that they had to ask for it \u2013 more than once \u2013 is far less pleasant. Yet, the ending of Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah\u2019s story remains inspirational. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the words of Theodor Herzl: \u2018If you will it, it is no dream\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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We use the image of a <\/span>tent<\/span><\/em> often. When standing under a chuppah <\/em>at a wedding, the officiant likens the chuppah<\/em> to a tent that is open on all sides as a metaphor for the type of home that we hope will be created. Our quintessential prayer for peace uses the image of <\/span>sukkat shalom<\/span><\/em>, a tent-like protective structure that we beseech God to provide. And even when referring in the English language to the groups with whom we feel aligned in some significant way, we say they are either <\/span>inside<\/span><\/em> or <\/span>outside<\/span><\/em> the proverbial tent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet little attention is paid to the actual building of the structure itself. Who undertakes the work of building a canopy of shared values, a canopy of peace, a canopy of <\/span>home<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe <\/span>whole<\/b> community of the Israelite people assembled at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there\u2026\u201d (verse 1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In reading this verse there is a powerful message and a reminder that we are sorely in need of today. \u00a0The word \u201cwhole\u201d (\u05db\u05dc) indicates that <\/span>all<\/span><\/em> of the Israelites were assembled in one place and were involved in the building of the holy, protective tent. The Torah, which uses no extra words, is emphasizing that each member of the community played an integral role in the creation of their shared spiritual home.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is a message of inclusion. It is not about encouraging inclusion for the sake of feeling good about ourselves or for fulfilling an act of <\/span>chesed<\/em> <\/span>(kindness). Rather, this message of inclusion is the reminder that each and every human being is imbued with purpose, meaning, and worthwhile contribution to the greater whole. This verse reinforces that each and every person was created <\/span>b\u2019tzelem Elohim<\/span><\/em>, in God\u2019s image, for each Israelite\u2019s presence and contribution was needed in order to be \u201cthe whole community of the Israelite people.\u201d The tent of meeting would not have been structurally or spiritually sound were it not for the radical inclusion of each and every member of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This message resonates today, for its truth endures. 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Chapter 18 begins with us learning that all the Israelites gathered at Shiloh to build the first non-mobile Tabernacle (Mishkan), one that lasted for 369 years until the Beit HaMikdash was built in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Immediately following a very short verse about erecting the Mishkan, Joshua chastises the seven tribes who have not yet conquered their portions of land. The 15<\/span>th<\/span> century commentator Abarbanel explains why these tribes were delaying their mission. They feared that as long as the borders remained undefined the Israelites would be united, but once clearly defined, an each-tribe-for-themselves mentality might emerge. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

So, the timing of building the Mishkan now, instead of what seems more logically to be after all the land is conquered, is no accident. Even with nearly half of the tribes already having established their portions, all the Israelites came together in unity to build the Mishkan. Now the Israelites had a center for communal spiritual expression, and private offerings to God were no longer allowed. Our sages tell us that this spiritual focus would empower the remaining tribes to conquer their land with the knowledge that they are already unified, regardless of territorial division.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It\u2019s an odd set of instructions Joshua gives to these seven tribes: appoint men to traverse the land, describe their inheritance in writing, bring that book back to Joshua, and he will then proceed with the prophetic lottery ritual, at the Mishkan, to confirm their inheritance. Why is this lottery even necessary? The details of the land inheritance were clearly demarcated already in the book of Deuteronomy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The definition of boundaries for the portions of land was never meant to be a purely legalistic division of property. True ownership comes from what they do with their inheritance. It is only after they have collectively claimed their portions, built a nation and established unity and spiritual ownership, that their inheritance is complete and the multitude of laws pertaining to the land of Israel take effect. The lottery doesn\u2019t define the borders. If that were the case then it would only be required for 11 tribes, as the 12<\/span>th<\/span> portion is clearly whatever remains, yet later we\u2019ll see that portion detailed as well. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The lottery is about the integrity of the process, and the internalization that this land is for all of Israel, from God, given to them as a unified nation, and for a holy purpose.<\/span>
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Before we get further into more of the minute details of how the land was apportioned among the remaining tribes, we would do well to consider some of the larger particulars.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Each tribe\u2019s portion is described in terms of its boundaries, which are noted according to each of the four cardinal directions. The Hebrew term for boundary is <\/span>gevul<\/span><\/em>; <\/span>tzafon<\/span><\/em> is north, <\/span>negev<\/span><\/em> is south, <\/span>yam<\/span><\/em> is west and <\/span>kedem<\/span><\/em> is east. What are the etymologies of these words?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The noun <\/span>gevul<\/span><\/em> derives from a verb that means to demarcate. We encountered it, first, on the eve of the revelation at Sinai when God instructed Moses to \u201cdemarcate (<\/span>hagbel<\/span><\/em>) the mountain and sanctify it\u201d (Exodus 19:23), and, again, in the prohibition \u201cDo not displace the demarcations (<\/span>gevul<\/span><\/em>) delineated (<\/span>gav\u2019lu<\/span><\/em>) by your predecessors\u201d (Dt. 19:14). Rather than lines on a map, these demarcations were most likely boundary stones; indeed, in Arabic, a Semitic language closely related to Hebrew, <\/span>g-b-l<\/span><\/em> means mountain, the earliest and most natural form of boundary. (The island of Gibraltar was originally named <\/span>G-B-L Tarik<\/span><\/em> after the Arab conqueror of Spain, Tarik Ibn Ziyad.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yam<\/span><\/em> (v. 12) is west in biblical geography because the Mediterranean Sea lies to Israel\u2019s west, whereas <\/span>negev<\/span><\/em> (v. 13) is south because the verb <\/span>N-G-B<\/span><\/i> means to dry and the driest part of Israel lies to its south. <\/span>Tzafon<\/span><\/em> (v. 5) is a bit of a puzzle because its only meaning in Hebrew is \u201chidden,\u201d which may be a way of signifying that in the east-west arc of the \u201cFertile Crescent\u201d (Mesopotamia-Egypt), anything off to the north was out of the way. (Curiously, in Arabic, south is <\/span>g-n-<\/span>b<\/span><\/em>, Hebrew for stolen, or hidden away.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Mizrach<\/span><\/em> (v. 7), for east, is the place of shining (of the sun - zarach<\/em>), just as its correspondent, <\/span>Ma`arav<\/span><\/em>, west (absent in our chapter), is the place of its setting ('erev - <\/em>evening)<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nevertheless, it is the term <\/span>kedem<\/span><\/em> (v. 20), that is the most intriguing. Its other meanings in Hebrew include \u201cfront\u201d and \u201cbefore,\u201d indicating that it is the direction right in front of me. Since I can face any direction, however, there needs to be a more objective sense to it. Since the cardinal direction I can count on finding under almost any circumstance is east\u2014as long as I await sunrise\u2014there is an implicit assumption that we start by facing eastward. That is why even in English we call directional alignment \u201corientation,\u201d because it is anchored in the east, the direction of the rising sun. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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