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Judah was the first tribe in the lottery and Joseph is the second. This continues the trend of setting up these two tribes as conflicting leaders of the nation. In this very brief chapter there are two interesting points. The first is that Menashe is not referred to as half the tribe of Menashe here, even though the narrative is referring to the half in Canaan. The second is that Ephraim had some cities designated within the territory of Menashe. These may be linked.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Reuben and Gad approached Moses to live on the other side of the Jordan, and Moses also allocated some of that land to half the tribe of Menashe in order to link the outer tribes with those in the land itself. That only works if the tribe of Menashe is still considered one tribe. This is probably why Menashe is kept whole here. The idea is that this inside-the-land Menashe is part of the larger Menashe tribe and should not be considered separate. Ephraim\u2019s cities also serve the same function. Just like Moses linked the outer tribes to the inner ones with Menashe in both, the lottery connects Ephraim to his brother with overlapping cities. In this way the tribe(s) of Joseph, although split into three, is linked together as one, unifying them as a counterweight to the tribe of Judah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The opening verse of this chapter names Beit-El as one the boundaries of the tribes of Joseph (i.e., Ephraim and half of Manasseh). We have made an earlier acquaintance with a place by that very symbolic name. Is it one and the same?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Abraham, shortly after his initial arrival in the land, \u201cremoved [his camp] from there to the mountains east of Bethel where he pitched his tent. Bethel was to his west and the Ai was to his east; there he built an altar to the Lord and proclaimed the Lord\u2019s name\u201d (Genesis 12:8). Later, on his return from Egypt, \u201cHe continued on his way from the south towards Bethel where his tent had been previously, between Bethel and the Ai. To the site of the altar he erected previously\u2026\u201d (13:3-4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jacob, arising in the morning following his remarkable dream, declared that site to be awesome (<\/span>nora\u2019<\/span><\/i>) and exclaimed: \u201cThis is none other than the house of God (<\/span>Beth elohim<\/span><\/em>); the gateway to heaven\u201d (28:17), on account of which he subsequently changed its name from Luz to Bethel (19). Since Jacob\u2019s Bethel had been Luz heretofore, it would be reasonable to assume that it was someplace other than Abraham\u2019s Bethel, which would have been so-called even at the time of Jacob.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, it is also reasonable to assume that if Jacob knew that there was a site at which his grandfather had \u201cproclaimed the Lord\u2019s name,\u201d it would have been a natural place for him to have spent the night. Indeed, the aggadah (quoted by Rashi, Genesis 28:17), has Jacob, having initially bypassed the site on his way from Beersheba to Haran, say, rhetorically, \u201cCould I have passed by a place where my ancestors prayed and not have paused to pray there myself?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is another Bethel in the biblical future. When the Davidic kingdom split in two, the usurper, Jeroboam ben Nebat, determined to prevent continued pilgrimage to Jerusalem, erected a golden calf in Bethel, and made it a cultic center (1 Kings 12: 29 ff.). Since Jeroboam was from the tribe of Ephraim, it stands to reason that he would choose a \u201chometown\u201d that would continue to compete with the Temple until the eventual termination of the northern kingdom he founded.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The current Israeli settlement of Bethel (Beit El), some 10 miles (17 kilometers) north of Jerusalem, appears to be situated on or near the biblical site, as the Arabic name (Beitin) of a nearby village also testifies.<\/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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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":5,"id":"54213","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Judah v. 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After the delineation of Judah's territory, chapters sixteen and seventeen spell out the tribal boundaries of Joseph. These two tribes, Judah and Joseph, were the most important in ancient Israel. Their pivotal roles were already indicated by the arrangement of the camp of Israel, during the peregrinations in the wilderness. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

During that period, Judah and its associated tribes of Issachar and Zebulun were arrayed on the prestigious eastern flank, along the axis of approach to the Tabernacle (see Num. 2:1-9, 3:38). The Joseph encampment, in contrast, composed of the tribes of Ephraim, Menashe, and Benjamin, was positioned on the western side of the Tabernacle (2:18-24), opposite the sacred enclosure of the Holy of Holies (3:23-26). In effect, the Tabernacle was bracketed by these two tribes of Judah and Joseph, highlighting not only their importance relative to the other tribes, but also underscoring the tension concerning their conflicting claims to control over the sacred precinct and, by extension, to the exercise of authority and leadership over the nation. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In fact, much was suggested in this array that presaged the future destiny of the people of Israel. Israel's first king, Saul, hailed from Benjamin \u2014 a member of the Joseph camp. David, his nemesis and successor, was from Judah. Soon after the demise of his son Solomon, the ancient tribal rivalries resurfaced. The united kingdom of Israel dissolved, pitting Judah in the south against the kingdom of Ephraim or Israel in the north. And so, the people remained divided until the bitter end: the conquest and exile of the northern kingdom by the Assyrians followed by the destruction of Jerusalem and the kingdom of Judah some 150 years later by the Babylonians. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both Joseph and Judah embodied dynamic leadership and ambition. Both brothers exemplified spiritual development and maturation, overcoming setbacks to triumph in the end. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Book of Joshua, the prominence of the two is awarded with expansive territories that are delineated ahead of any of the other tribes. But the fundamentals are to be found in the narratives of the Book of Genesis, where Judah is designated for leadership and Joseph for success. Initially, Joseph and Judah are pitted against each other as rivals, but in the end they are together responsible for reuniting the family of Israel and for ensuring its well-being in Egypt. It is therefore not only the perils of discord that are indicated by their tense relationship, but the promise of harmony and attainment as well. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joshua: The Challenge of the Promised Land <\/span><\/i>(Jerusalem: Koren, 2015); <\/span>Chapter: \u201cJudah and Joseph\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. The message of the first list<\/span><\/em>. Judah, the tribe of leadership, is first. Then the sons of Joseph (\u201cthe Josephites\u201d), who also have a leading role - especially Ephraim.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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  3. Forced labor<\/em> <\/span>(verse 10). This is the arrangement of the Canaanite controlled Gezer and the Ephraimites: a Canaanite enclave that is economically subservient. But this doesn\u2019t last forever. In the days of King Solomon, in another 93 chapters (I Kings chapter 9), Gezer changes hands and then becomes a wedding present.
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