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King Yavin would annihilate Israel\u2019s army in a day. His general Sisera had 900 iron chariots advancing on Wadi Kishon, and Israelite general Barak was nowhere to be seen. Yavin\u2019s intelligence said the Israelites would be led in battle by a woman!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Barak, not MIA, was following Deborah\u2019s command. Overnight, he had taken Israel\u2019s ten thousand soldiers up Mount Tabor, to lay in wait. Deborah planned to lure Sisera and his chariots into the wadi, then to signal Barak. He and his army would charge down, crushing the Canaanites in an ambush.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sky darkened, split by spears of lightning, rolling thunder sounding a supernatural roar. \u201cThe earth trembled, the Heavens dripped\u201d (Jud. 5:4). Instantly the chariots were engulfed in a muddy flood, the battleground becoming impassable. Horses, iron wheels, armored soldiers, all were inundated, stuck and useless, awaiting slaughter by the Israelites.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sisera knew he was bested. Without a thought for his King, men or horses, he jumped from his chariot, the preternatural storm masking his escape. Sisera stumbled into a deserted Kenite encampment, where the only movement was a woman\u2014beautiful even at a distance\u2014standing at her tent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yael was a woman alone. Her husband had left their tiny camp to scout. She listened, trembling, as someone approached through the underbrush. It was a warrior, dangerous and powerful. A realist, Yael knew she had but one chance to survive the coming brutality: she would play-act. \u201cCome in, my Lord, do not be afraid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yael served him warm milk, hoping to put him to sleep. Instead, revived, the warrior grabbed Yael by the throat and forced her onto the ground. Afterwards, he commanded her, \u201cStand guard at the tent flap while I sleep!\u201d And he collapsed onto the pallet. Yael, bruised and violated, spent no time on shame. She knew the general would kill her when he woke, so she had to strike first. But how? Her eye fell on homely tent pegs and a heavy mallet in a corner. Her right hand closed on the familiar mallet handle; her left hand grasped a tent peg. Holding the sharpened peg to Sisera\u2019s temple, Yael raised the mallet high, bringing it down, stapling Sisera\u2019s head to the floor. \u201cAt her feet\u2026he lay outstretched\u2026lay still. There he lay\u2014destroyed.\u201d Jud. 5:27.\u00a0 Yael stood, blood pooling at her feet, waiting.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It was Yael, \u201cwithout shield or spear,\u201d who was Israel\u2019s secret weapon, Deborah\u2019s <\/span>lachem she\u2019arim<\/span><\/em>, her<\/span> warrior at the gates<\/span><\/em> (Jud. 5:8).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Like Moses after the defeat of the Egyptians, the Israelites after the defeat of Og and Moses again at the end of his life, Deborah composes an epic poem describing her victory. The Song of Deborah is a complex poem that includes rhymes (e.g., verse 3- \u201cmelachim<\/em>\u201d and \u201croznim<\/em>\u201d), repeated words (the word \u201caz<\/em>\u201d appears five times), narrative (verses 24-30 tells the story of Yael), cosmic midrash (verse 20: \u201cThe stars fought from heaven, From their courses they fought against Sisera\u201d), praises (verse 18: \u201cZebulun is a people that mocked at death, Naphtali\u2014on the open heights\u201d),\u00a0 and curses (verse 23: \u201c'Curse Meroz!' said the angel of the LORD. 'Bitterly curse its inhabitants, Because they came not to the aid of the LORD, To the aid of the LORD among<\/span> the warriors'\u201d).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Deborah also references herself twice: \u201cDeliverance ceased, Ceased in Israel, Till I arose, O Deborah, Arose, O mother, in Israel!\u201d (verse 7) and \u201cAwake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, strike up the chant! Arise, O Barak; Take your captives, O son of Abinoam!\u201d (verse 12). What do these two verses mean? Why does Deborah need to wake herself up?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Talmud in Pesachim 66:b explains that the second verse is a direct result of the first verse. In the first verse, Deborah was haughty and claimed that she was the reason that the Israelites were saved. Even if this was true, she was not humble. Because she was not humble, she lost the divine spirit. A true prophet, like Moses, needs to be humble. The second verse is the literal wake up call for her to snap out of her haughtiness and return to her humble roots. She displays this by immediately praising Barak, and not herself. When she does, the divine spirit returns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is a nice message but does not seem to match the story. This chapter is simply the epic poem recounting the story. If she lost her divine spirit mid-song, it does not seem to be so consequential. Because this is an epic poem, it is not out of the ordinary that part of it would be praise for the songwriter. In fact, the message could be against those who doubted that a woman could achieve such a victory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is another reading. The translation of verse 7 could be \u201cdeliverance ceased, ceased in Israel until <\/span>you<\/span><\/em> arose, O Deborah\u2026\u201d This phrasing would imply that a chorus sang this part to Deborah. The chorus would then appear in verse 7, calling out to Deborah to awaken. Isaiah uses this double phrase in chapters 51 and 52. Both times it\u2019s symbolic of God and Jerusalem awakening to achieve glory and strength once again. Here as well, the chorus may be rousing Deborah to victory.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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When the warrior comes to her tent, Yael treats him with dignity. Then, as he stands there, Yael grabs the tools she has on hand and fells him, smashing his skull and piercing it. The more familiar story portrays a sleeping Sisera, but in the Song, he is erect, and sinks to his knees and falls prone as she stands over him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The song emphasizes that he lay <\/span>between her legs<\/span><\/em>. Midrash and some modern scholars see sexual allusion here, envisioning a scene in which Yael disarms Sisera through sexual enticement, or even says a midrash, through exhausting him sexually, once for each \"between her legs.\" But the image of Sisera falling between Yael's legs is not a sexual allusion. It is rather a savage grotesquery of childbirth. Sisera doesn't find sexual release and <\/span>petit mort<\/span><\/em> (\"little death\") of orgasm; he finds total death\u2026 He is delivered to death, and in so doing Yael helped deliver Israel to life. Just as the \"motherhood\" of Deborah involved directing battle, this savage \"motherhood\" of Yael \"rebirths\" Sisera to his death\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Song remembers Yael of Strength; the story Yael of Stealth. Neither presents a Yael of Seduction. This is left to later readers, beginning with the Greco-Roman period, when many of the biblical stories about women were eroticized. The figure of Yael is often merged with a much later heroine whose story is presented in the Apocryphal book of Judith. Judith's story, written in the Graeco-Roman period, is set at the time of the Assyrian invasion of Israel. The Assyrian general Holofernes besieged Bethulia (Bethel), called for surrender, and announced his intention to mutilate the men of the city\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In order to save Israel, Judith clothes herself sumptuously, and has her hair dressed in splendid Hellenistic fashion. The result is that she is so stunningly beautiful that she is able to walk past the guards\u2026 and reach Holofernes. Holofernes drinks more than he ever has before and falls drunk at her feet. She takes his sword, cuts off his head, puts his head in the bag she brought with her and goes back to the city. The rest of the book is a paean of praise that makes allusion to all the old heroes of Israel, including Yael.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The similarities between Yael and Judith are obvious: both are domestic women who kill the enemy general. But the differences are equally striking. The story portrays Judith in erotic terms and describes both her beauty and the male reaction to it. There is no doubt that her beauty is the weapon by which Judith saves Israel. Yael's appearance, by contrast, is never described, nor does Sisera react to her as anything but a source of help. The difference between Yael and Judith is precisely the difference between biblical ideas and the ideas that came into Israel from the Greek world. In classical biblical works, the beauty of women is never their weapon. It can make them vulnerable to male desires, as with Sarah and Bathsheba, but it does not help them manipulate such desires.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Tikva Freymer-Kensky, \"Warriors of Weapon and Word: Deborah and Yael,\" in <\/span>Reading the Women of the Bible<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>Schocken: 2002, pp. 45-57.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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On either side the wadi lie<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Long fields of barley, furrowed high<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The clothe the vale and meet the sky<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And through the fields the road runs by<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The palm of Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Retreating home, the soldiers go<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Gazing where the lilies blow<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Cloaked in what she does not know:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Willows whiten, myrtles quiver<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Little breezes dusk and shiver<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Through the tears that run forever<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In the wadi where it waters<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The palm of Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Canaan walls and Canaan towers<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Overlook a space of flowers<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And the silent vale embowers<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

By the wadi, willow veil'd<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Slink the iron chariots trail'd<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>By tired horses, once assailed<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>They relent, for she prevailed:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The palm of Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>But who hath seen her wave her hand<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Or at the casement seen her stand<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Or is she known in all the land<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only reapers reaping early<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In among the bearded barley<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Here the sound that echoes clearly<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>From the wadi winding nearly<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The palm of Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And by the moon, Ruth young and weary<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Piling sheaves in uplands airy<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Listening, whispers, \"'Tis the fairy<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera.\" <\/span><\/p>\r\n

There she weaves by night and day<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A magic web with colors gay.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She has heard her ladies say<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A curse will come if he betrays<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The palm of Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She knows not what the curse may be<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And so she weaveth steadily<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Thinking only, \"Where is he?\"<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Her only son, Sisera.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But in her loom she still delights<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To weave the spoils of the fight<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As often through the silent nights<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Come funerals with plumes alight<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As torch-like Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And sometimes through the lattice blue<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The troops came riding two by two<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She hath her loyal troop and true<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

A bow-shot from her bower-eaves<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He rode between the barley sheaves<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The lightning sparkled through the leaves<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And flamed upon the brazen greaves<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of General Barak.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He rode right onwards through the night<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Below the starry clusters bright<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That left their paths to join and fight<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The army of Sisera. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

All in the blue unclouded weather<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Thick-jewell'd shone the saddle-leather<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The helmet and the helmet-feather<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Like its dates and pits together:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The palm of Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And from his blazon'd baldric slung<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A mighty lengthened shofar hung<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And blasted 'til her voice, too, rung<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

She left the web, she left the loom,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She made three paces round the room<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She knew the tree had brought his doom<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She'd seen his helmet and his plume<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>On General Barak!<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Out flew the web and floated wide<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Her dream-cloak tore from side-to-side<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\"The curse has come upon him,\" cried<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And down the wadi's dim expanse<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Like a prophetess entranced<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>With a glassy countenance<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She beheld her own mischance:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The palm of Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And at the closing of the day<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She found a ship, and down she lay<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The wadi bore her far away<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lying robed in shrouds of white<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That loosely flew to left and right<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The leaves upon her falling light<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>From the tree that bloomed by night:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The palm of Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As as her ship-prow wound along<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The willowy hills and fields amongThey heard her moan her shofar song<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Who is this? And what is here?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Ephraim's victors all drew near<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Died the sound of Israel's cheer<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As they looked to God in fear,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Those judged by Deborah.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>But Deborah mused a little space<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She said, \"The grief upon that face!<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>God in His mercy lend her grace,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The mother of Sisera.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The fifth chapter of Judges contains an anthem attributed to both Barak and Deborah, though remembered in Jewish tradition as Deborah\u2019s song. What is more, the hero of the song is neither Deborah nor Barak, but Yael the Kenite, who killed Sisera, just as Deborah predicted in chapter four:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Barak said to her, \u201cIf you will go with me, I will go; if not, I will not go.\u201d \u201cVery well, I will go with you,\u201d she answered. \u201cHowever, there will be no glory for you in the course you are taking, for then the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.\u201d So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. (Judges 8-9).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This displacement of a male hero from the glory which, in a patriarchal society, would normally be his, is notable, and sets the tone for Judges \u2013 a book considered by some scholars to have an almost \u201cfeminist\u201d strain.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The transfer of power between genders is depicted in a memorable image by the Dutch Catholic painter Salomon de Bray, in his 1635 painting <\/span>Jael, Deborah and Barak<\/span><\/em>. On the right we see Barak in full battle gear, gazing directly at the viewer, with concern and perhaps disappointment lining his face. In the center of the frame is the wizened prophetess, Deborah, looking and praying towards God. The largest and brightest figure is, fittingly, Yael, who grasps her tools of destruction, and holds an intense but difficult-to-decode expression. One can detect in Yael\u2019s visage determination, pride, or the sweetness of revenge in her face. Perhaps most of all, there is a look of wonder at her newfound power.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This chapter, known as the Song of Deborah, records a military triumph after Yael killed the general Sisera. Yet in the midst of this victory song comes a brief but bizarre narrative. Verse 28 narrates a poignant vignette of the enemy general Sisera\u2019s mother, waiting at the window for his return and wondering why he is delayed. The insertion of this verse is strange: why the disconnect between a triumphant song of victory and the tragedy of the suffering of Sisera\u2019s mother?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In some ways the insertion of the sadness of the vignette is deeply Jewish: in our greatest celebrations, we remember the suffering of our enemies. At Jewish weddings, we break a glass; at the Passover Seder, we spill drops of wine in remembrance of Egyptian suffering from the plagues. The Sages of the Talmud claim a deep meaning from the cries of Sisera\u2019s unnamed mother. They derive the shofar blasts we hear on Rosh Hashanah- teruah, shevarim<\/em>, etc- from this verse, connecting the different verbs describing the the moaning and wailing of Sisera\u2019s bereaved mother with each of the shofar blasts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why cite the sorrow of this unnamed woman at the death of her son as the source of Jewish law for one of the holiest days of the year? If anything, the shofar, which is also used in battle, should remind us of God\u2019s steadfast protection of our armies as they go into battle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But we are reminded of this tradition of remembering the pain of others even in our greatest moments of joy and connection to God. And perhaps this is precisely why the Rabbis wanted us to remember Sisera\u2019s mother as we hear the shofar: what we might interpret as a call to be attuned to God is really a call to listen carefully to those around us. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

We cannot ask for God\u2019s care and compassion if we are not able to offer care and compassion to everyone we meet. In the cries of the shofar, we hear the cries of the bereaved who we have failed to comfort, the moans of suffering even of our sworn enemies. In the cries of the shofar, we are reminded: all of us are human, all of us suffer loss, and all of us pray that this will be a year in which it does not happen to us. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The only question is: are we ready to listen?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, a grave-looking woman is looking through a window.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Neither she nor the window are real, though. She is but the image of a face, framed by the image of a window, staring at us from an ivory tablet which was carved in the 8th century BCE. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Judges 5, another woman looks out through a window: Sisera\u2019s mother, as she awaits her son\u2019s return from battle. She, too, is a work of art: we never meet the actual woman. We only see her fictional representation in Deborah\u2019s song.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does the song include this particular fictional representation? What is Deborah trying to say?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps Deborah is using Sisera\u2019s mother to emphasize the miraculous nature of the Israelite victory. \u201cWhy is his vehicle so long in coming,\u201d Sisera\u2019s mother frets, surprised by her son\u2019s tardiness. She must have assumed that he could squash the Israelites easily, and expected a swift, victorious return. Her attendants share her confidence, concluding that Sisera must be occupied with the aftermath of victory: \u201c\u2026are they not dividing the spoil? A damsel, two damsels to every man\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet we, Deborah\u2019s audience, know that the \u2018squashable\u2019 Israelites have defeated the mighty Sisera, and that instead of allotting captive women to his soldiers, Sisera is lying dead, and by a woman\u2019s hands. The contrast between our knowledge and the Canaanite women\u2019s<\/span> suppositions reminds us of the odds Barak and Deborah faced, and thus of the surprising nature of their victory.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But perhaps Deborah is making an argument that goes beyond her own victory. Perhaps she is warning the Israelites against a particular way of looking at the world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sisera\u2019s mother is looking at the world through the window of her expectations, and they limit what she is able to see. In the world as she sees it, the mighty can\u2019t fail, the weak can\u2019t succeed, and women can do naught but wait and look or be despoiled. Women like Deborah and Yael are beyond this world\u2019s imagination. Within it, weaker parties can\u2019t expect to beat the odds.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If the Israelites were to accept this worldview, they wouldn\u2019t have had the courage to pursue a way of life that was bound to put them at odds with other people. They wouldn\u2019t have had the courage to fight against oppressors in Judges, rebel against king Antiochus centuries later, or become refuseniks in the USSR. The Jewish journey always required us to have the courage to punch above our weight. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Through her portrayal of Sisera\u2019s mother and her mistaken expectations, Deborah reminds us that such courage can be rewarded with success. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Song of Deborah is the song of praise offered after defeating Sisera. This is the Haftarah read in conjunction with the Torah portion of \u00a0Beshalach, where another example of biblical song, the Song of the Sea, appears. After God took the Jewish people out of Egypt, they sang a song of praise on the other side of the split sea. While both texts are post-victory songs, the striking differences between them point to a change in the response to miraculous victory. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Differences in perspective are evident in the opening words of the two songs. The Song of the Sea opens with the whole nation together with the leader in praise of God; \u201cThen Moses and <\/span>the Israelites<\/em> <\/span>sang this song to the LORD\u201d (Exodus 15). Judges highlights the nation\u2019s absence in the praise: only the two leaders are mentioned, \u201cOn that day <\/span>Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam<\/em> <\/span>sang\u201d (Judges 5). In addition to these differences, there are differences in the focal points of the narrative as well. The Song of the Sea focuses much more intently on the acts of God, while Deborah\u2019s song seems to highlight different aspects of victory by accentuating the actions of man rather than the hand of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the era of Judges, the nation (as well as the leadership) was more accustomed to the cycle of \u00a0war and then redemption. Because of human involvement in this state of war, it was a time where perhaps God\u2019s miracles were overlooked by the masses so only Deborah and Barak participated in the Song. 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The \u201cSong of Deborah\u201d belongs to a tradition of celebrating military victory in song that extends back to the crossing of the Red Sea. Indeed, this chapter is part of the Haftarah (additional Prophetic reading) that accompanies the weekly Torah portion of Beshalah (Exodus 13:17 ff.) that incorporates the crossing and its accompanying song. A striking distinction between the two is that the crossing of the sea, having been led by Moses, was celebrated first by him and the men (Exodus 15:1) and only later by Miriam and the women (15:20). The victory over Sisera, having been initiated by Deborah, allows her name to precede that of Barak, the male general (v. 1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One particular detail of the song is the focus of one of the most enlightening and critical disputes in medieval biblical exegesis. It pits Rashi, the embodiment of rabbinically inspired interpretation, against a younger colleague of his, Rabbi Yosef Kara, one of the earliest champions of rationally inclined analysis. The verse in question reads:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lord, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, earth trembled, heavens also released, yes, the clouds released water (4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi, basing himself on the talmudic narrative (Aggadah) that prior to offering the Torah to Israel, God had offered it to the Edomites, who had refused it, commented: \u201cThis refers to the giving of Torah.\u201d Kara countered by saying:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"What place does the revelation of Torah at Sinai have here? I have reviewed all the songs recorded in Scripture about miracles that were performed for Israel and have found that they all relate to their [historical] circumstances.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moreover, according to Kara, Scripture is deemed always to be self-sufficient for its own interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"Besides, it is uncustomary for a prophet in any of the 24 [canonical] books to speak so enigmatically that we would require an aggadah to understand him.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The tension between interpretations based solely upon rabbinic tradition and those that also incorporate critical rational analysis has enriched biblical exegesis in the past and continues to do so today.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Bees can detect subtle electrical charges around them. They fly through life aware of their surroundings with the help of a sense that we human beings lack\u2014the negative electrical field that surrounds each bee responds to its electrically-charged environment. This helps bees find positively-charged pollen and it also helps them predict the weather.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Devorah (literally \u201cbee\u201d), like her winged namesake, has a sixth sense. Prophets are tuned in to additional levels of awareness of their world which allows them to hear and respond to things the rest of us cannot perceive. When bees retreat to their hives well before the first lightning strikes, they spread the news of impending calamity with their loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Barak (literally \u201clightning\u201d) is the lightning Devorah senses best. She calls to him first with her prophecy, saying that The Eternal will deliver Israel again from the hand of her enemies. For the last several generations her people have turned away from their promise to God and in turn they have suffered and lost their autonomy. For a bee, this is unacceptable. Their insular communities provide the protection they need from an outside world that is hostile to its most gentle pollinator. Devorah and Barak are the perfect pair to lead the Israelites to victory because of their desire to protect the people they love, but what makes them such a powerful pair is their electric connection.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judges 5 is the song Devorah and Barak sing after their enemies are \u201csubdued.\u201d Early editors of the text believed their joyous song was an immediate reaction to victory. If so, what does it mean to celebrate before your enemies have been buried? What of the blood still pouring from Sisera\u2019s head in Yael\u2019s tent? How can a bee (or a modern Jewish leader) celebrate in the midst of such destruction?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I believe we are challenged to view this text as more than a hymn of praise. It recounts victories in battle that saved the Israelites, but behind the celebration is the reminder that we as Jews have always faced hostility and we have endured ugly violence. When Devorah and Barak sang to God, there was no hiding this difficult truth. And yet, because they are leaders who serve their community and their Creator, they looked out at the devastation of battle and sang for joy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What did their song sound like? Had Tanakh come with sheet music, I imagine this text would accompany <\/span>Adon Olam<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>Yigdal<\/span><\/em> in the hymnal. The student cantor in me yearns for the melody that celebrates moments of complicated (and perhaps guilty) pleasure. 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5:7 \u201cUnwalled cities <\/span>ceased<\/span><\/i>,\/ <\/span>in Israel <\/span><\/i>they <\/span>ceased<\/span><\/i>,\/ <\/span>till you arose<\/span><\/i>, Deborah,\/ <\/span>till you arose<\/span><\/i>, O mother <\/span>in Israel<\/span><\/i>.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>This pattern of incremental repetition <\/b>strongly marks this poem and is a hallmark of its archaic character. Incremental repetition is the most explicit form of development or intensification from the first half of the line to the second, a pattern in which something is literally added in the second verset.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

5:12 \u201cAwake, awake, O Deborah, awake awake, O speak (<\/span>dabri<\/span><\/i>) the song\u2026\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Yairah Amit proposes that the choice of the verb \u201cspeak,\u201d <\/span>dabri<\/span><\/i>, is motivated by the pun on the name Deborah. The phrase here is the increment in still another incremental repetition.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

5:19 \u201cKings came, did battle, then Canaan\u2019s kings did battle\u2026\u201d <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>This is another fine flourish of incremental repetition. \u201cThen\u201d is repeated through the poem, marking its narrative momentum\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

5:23 \u201c...they did not come to the aid of the Lord, To the aid of the Lord midst the warriors.\u201d <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In this incremental repetition, it is evident that YHWH needs His human warriors in order to be victorious. The poem wavers in this fashion between understanding victory as a miraculous event and as the accomplishment of heroic deeds by brave warriors.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

5:24 \u201cBlessed above women Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, above women in tents be she blessed.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>This incremental repetition, by introducing an ostensibly automatic epithet for women with their domestic sphere, \u201cin tents,\u201d sets the scene for the killing with the tent peg.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

5:27 \u201cBetween her legs he kneeled, fell, lay, between her legs he kneeled, he fell, where he kneeled he fell, destroyed.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>His death agony is a kind of grotesque parody and reversal of sexual assault, a common practice in warfare, as we are reminded at the beginning of verse 30. This triadic line is one of the most brilliant deployments of incremental repetition in the poem, culminating in the the climactic increment \u201cdestroyed\u201d at the end.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible, <\/span><\/i>vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. 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  1. The real hero<\/span><\/i>. God is the overarching hero, but the song praises generously all the human heores who took part.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Sing along!<\/span><\/i> The togetherness of war, transfers to the togetherness of the song of thanksgiving (verses 2, 9-11, and more).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. So much water! <\/span><\/i>Both in the description of God\u2019s revelation at the beginning (verses 4-5) and in the battle (19-21).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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