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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> begins with a detailed description of the extent and lavishness of King Solomon\u2019s vast Empire:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon\u2019s rule extended over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and the boundary of Egypt. They brought Solomon tribute and were subject to him all his life. Solomon\u2019s daily provisions consisted of 30 <\/span>kors<\/em> <\/span>of semolina, and 60 <\/span>kors<\/em> <\/span>of [ordinary] flour, 10 fattened oxen, 20 pasture-fed oxen, and 100 sheep and goats, besides deer and gazelles, roebucks and fatted geese [<\/span>barburim<\/span><\/em>]. For he controlled the whole region west of the Euphrates\u2014all the kings west of the Euphrates, from Tiphsah to Gaza\u2014and he had peace on all his borders round about. All the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba dwelt in safety\u2026\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In later Jewish tradition, the expression \u201ca feast like that of Solomon in his time\u201d came to describe a meal that was literally \u201cfit for a king.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to the<\/span> Talmud Bavli<\/span><\/a>, Rabbi Yo\u1e25anan ben Matya warned his son, who had made a contractual agreement to provide sustenance for hired laborers: \u201cEven if you were to prepare a feast for them like that of King Solomon in his time, you would not have fulfilled your obligation to them, as they are the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\u201d In the continuation of this Talmudic discussion, Guryon ben Asteyon says in the name of Rav: The measures of flour mentioned in the verse were used by King Solomon\u2019s bakers to knead into dough that was then placed in a pot to steam. Rabbi Yitz\u1e25ak adds that this dough was then used in making meat pudding by adding wine, more dry flour and meat from the pot. Rabbi Yitz\u1e25ak continues that King Solomon had one thousand wives, each one of whom would prepare for him at her home a feast of such proportions, in the hope that the king might feast with her today. Rabbi Yo\u1e25anan adds to this culinary discussion that Solomon\u2019s feasts were of such fine quality because the chefs selected only an ox from Solomon\u2019s herds that had never been made to work (what we would call \u201cmilk-fed\u201d), and a hen that had not yet laid eggs (a \u201cspring chicken\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our chapter continues (verse 7): \u201cAll those prefects [<\/span>ha-nitzavim<\/span><\/em>], each during his month, would furnish provisions for King Solomon and for all who were admitted to King Solomon\u2019s table; they did not fall short in anything.\u201d Here the word <\/span>nitzavim<\/span><\/em> seems to refer to King Solomon\u2019s \u201ccommissaries\u201d, i.e. officers in charge of providing the royal household with food and other supplies. The<\/span> Midrash<\/span><\/a> elaborates that the \u201cfatted geese [<\/span>barburim<\/span><\/em>]\u201d were succulent and readily available, having been grown in cages [<\/span>birberayya<\/span><\/em>]. Or that this refers to a fabulous fowl that came each and every day from<\/span> \"Barbaria\" (in North Africa)<\/span><\/a> and would perch on King Solomon\u2019s table! Indeed, to this day,<\/span> North African Jewish Cuisine<\/span><\/a> is particularly popular in Israel and Jewish neighborhoods in America.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cHe was the wisest of all men: [wiser] than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalkol, and Darda the sons of Mahol. His fame spread among all the surrounding nations\u201d (verse 11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 5 continues the discussion of Solomon\u2019s wealth and his wisdom. Verse 11 claims that his wisdom was greater than four individuals. Who were these four individuals? Rashi points to a verse in I Chronicles 2:6 to show that these were relatives of Solomon who were descendants of Judah. \u201cThe sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Chalkol, and Dara, five in all.\u201d These names also appear as expert singers from the tribe of Levi later in Chronicles.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Those were the appointed men; and their sons were: the Kohathites: Heman the singer, son of Joel son of Samuel\u2026 On the left were their kinsmen: the sons of Merari: Ethan son of Kishi son of Abdi son of Malluch\u201d (I Chronicles 6:18 and 29).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some of the names appear in the musical directions in Psalms: \u201cA song. A psalm of the Korahites. For the leader; on ma\u1e25alath leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.\u201d (Psalm 88) and \u201cA <\/span>maskil<\/span><\/i> of Ethan the Ezrahite.\u201d (Psalm 89). That would imply that these individuals were expert musicians and lyricists, but verse 11 compares the wisdom of Solomon to these individuals, so it would seem like an odd comparison if it were referring to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The midrash explains that each of these names refers to someone in Tanach. Man is Adam, Ethan is Abraham, Heman is Moses, Chalkol is Joseph, Darda is the generation of the wilderness. The idea is that Solomon was greater in wisdom than all of these scions of Israelite history. Perhaps the text does not list these individuals by name so as not to embarrass them. Of course, that begs the question why list them at all. If Solomon\u2019s wisdom is meant to be portrayed as the gold standard in the world, it would also be odd to only list Israelites here. Although Solomon predated the great Greek philosophers by 500 years, it is possible that these names referenced other great thinkers in the Ancient Near East or Mediterranean. Perhaps these were the \u201cfathers\u201d to Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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King Solomon\u2019s conversation with Hiram, the king of Tyre, in this chapter, as they negotiate the construction of the Temple, has a familiar tone. It\u2019s the tone of powerful men, detached from the reality of everyday suffering and subjection, speaking about their grand plans. \u201cI propose to build a house for the name of God,\u201d Solomon says to Hiram. \u201cGive orders for cedars to be cut for me in Lebanon. My slaves will work with yours. I\u2019ll give you any wage you ask for the use of your slaves. Because as you know, there is no one who can cut timber like the Sidonians\u201d (5:19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I hear him saying that last sentence with a chuckle, a joke of those in power at the expense of those who are sweating and bleeding into the construction of a place of worship. At best, I hear it as empty flattery and sycophantism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is the behavior of the wisest man of all time? The one who we just learned composed three thousand proverbs, one thousand songs (5:12)? Who explained natural phenomena of all kinds (5:13)? Sought after by followers from kingdoms far and wide who wanted to listen to his wisdom (5:14)?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yes. And this would not be the first nor the last time power and wealth was confused with wisdom and intellect.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The language of Solomon\u2019s servants building the Temple should remind us of the way Pharaoh\u2019s subjection of the Israelites is described in the book of Exodus. Yes, the two instances are different in that Solomon\u2019s servants are described as being satisfied with the peace they are enjoying, each having his own fig and his own vine (5:4). They might also actually enjoy the fruits of their labor in being able to visit the Temple when it\u2019s completed. But they are still slaves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the chapter intentionally chooses similar language for King Solomon\u2019s workers\u2019\/slaves\u2019\/servants\u2019 construction of the Temple as the language used to describe Pharaoh\u2019s subjection of the Israelites. The Torah never asks us to nod along unthinkingly. And here is no exception. The clues in the language might lead us to ask: What\u2019s wrong with this picture? And to ask, when - now, individually and as a society -- do we confuse wealth with wisdom? How - now - might we create a society in which people are able to enjoy the metaphorical shade of their own fig and vine without paying the price of their freedom?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Having secured his kingdom, vanquished Israel\u2019s enemies, and brought a measure of peace and prosperity at home, King Solomon now turns to the unfinished task left him by his father, to build a House in Jerusalem for the worship of the One.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After lengthy descriptions of Solomon as the wisest of all people, of an understanding so vast that it incorporates plants, animals, and all living things, Scripture shares with us that Solomon\u2019s first step in building this Holy Temple is to turn to a foreign king, a pagan one at that. Lest you think that involving an idolater in the construction of Israel\u2019s holiest site might be a mistake, the Bible goes out of its way to lavish praise on the unparalleled wisdom of Solomon. \u201cGod endowed Solomon with wisdom and discernment in great measure, with breadth of heart as vast as the sands on the seashore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Such wisdom, such expansiveness of heart, precludes the possibility that his reaching out was a thoughtless mistake. We can only surmise that he meant it. If so, why does King Solomon involve a pagan king, an idolatrous source, in the very beginnings of our Holy Temple?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the answer is found in Solomon\u2019s invitation. At present, he says, there are no adversaries. And this is to be a house for God\u2019s Name. Hiram\u2019s response to this invitation is to recognize Solomon\u2019s greatness: \u201cPraised be the Lord this day for granting David a wise son to govern this great people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon\u2019s ecumenical wisdom results in a pagan who appreciates the true greatness of Israel\u2019s faith. We are great not when we define ourselves in isolation, not when we seek to compare Israel\u2019s best to the rest of humanity\u2019s worst. Indeed, such unfair contrasts discredit ourselves and reveal a lack of faith in Judaism\u2019s worth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only when we have the strength to actually converse with others, to encounter those who are unlike ourselves, only then does Israel\u2019s monotheism reflect the kind of all-inclusive breadth that is worthy of God\u2019s name. Biblical oneness is a unity of inclusion, a vessel containing real diversity, the embrace of opposites. The only way to fashion a home for Israel\u2019s God is to include everyone in its construction, and to then provide a courtyard for such Gentiles as wish to participate and to offer sacrifice, to do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Their sacrifices have the same savor as do our own. Their devotion is as pleasing before God as is ours. Solomon, in his wisdom, could speak not only the language of trees and beasts. 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\u201cAnd the wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the East\u2026\u201d (I Kings 5:10)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When King Solomon was young, he learned<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The language of soft-eyed gazelles that graze among the lilies,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who taught him how to leap from crag to crag<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>On the mountains of spices, and to step firmly along steep cliffs.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He learned the language of doves that nest in clefts of rocks,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who taught him the secrets of how the male courts the female,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And the way of a man with a maid.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>After the winds blew gently before dawn,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Awakening him in his orchard of pomegranates,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Solomon wrote <\/span>The Song of Songs.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

When King Solomon grew older, he learned<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The language of ants that gather their food in the summer,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of locusts that have no general yet go forth in troops,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of spiders that weave webs in his palace.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He learned the language<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of snakes sunning themselves on rocks in spring,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of eagles gliding in the air in autumn,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of rock-badgers that hide in winter.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When his ships set sail to bring him peacocks and monkeys from Ophir,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Solomon wrote <\/span>The Book of Proverbs.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

When King Solomon was an old man,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Satiated from conversing with animals and birds,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He studied the language of the moon, the stars and the sun,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who taught him to everything there is a season<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And a time under heaven:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A time to sing and a time to refrain,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A time to speak and a time to keep silent,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A time to write and a time to lay down the pen.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>For what profit does a man have from all his labor<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That he labors under the sun?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

King Solomon sighed.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cThis too is vanity and a striving after the wind.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Surely for the wise man, whose eyes are in his head,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>His wisdom should make his face shine.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Surely God should bring every deed into judgment<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Concerning every hidden thing,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Be it for good or for evil.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>After writing <\/span>Kohelet<\/span><\/i>, the old man<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Stood up, leaned down on his cane<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And said <\/span>Kaddish.<\/span><\/i><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":61782,"alt":"","title":"1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n.jpg","width":426,"height":414,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n-300x292.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":292,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n.jpg","medium_large-width":426,"medium_large-height":414,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n.jpg","large-width":426,"large-height":414,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n.jpg","1536x1536-width":426,"1536x1536-height":414,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n.jpg","2048x2048-width":426,"2048x2048-height":414,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n.jpg","post_full_size-width":426,"post_full_size-height":414,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-proverbs-ecclesiastes-song-of-songs-n.jpg","home_baner-width":426,"home_baner-height":414}},"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":"929 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Solomon is an impressive thinker. The thousand and five songs and three thousand parables referred to may accord with at least some of the content of Song of Songs and Proverbs, which are attributed to him; the sages add Ecclesiastes to his repertoire. But his wisdom goes beyond that; the book of Kings notes his knowledge of trees and animals and his superiority over all other known scholars. Rashi interprets this as referring to his knowledge of natural sciences:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"He discoursed about trees\" \u2014 the health of each plant and the constitution of the timber; which is suited to what type of construction, what soil it needs. And likewise \"about beasts\" \u2014 their medicinal needs, reproductive techniques, and nutrition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We gain the impression that Solomon is a master of philosophy and literature, botany and zoology, and that no sphere of human wisdom eludes him. How does any individual--especially a king, who has many other responsibilities--amass this huge knowledge base?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When the text says that \"Solomon built,\" we assume that the king planned, supervised, and financed the construction, not that he actually chiseled the stonework and cut the wood. We are not speaking of Solomon the individual; rather of his kingdom as a whole. Similarly, when we discuss Solomon's wisdom regarding trees, beasts, and fowl, we are speaking of the intellectual environment he has created in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon's genius lies in his plan to harness all worldly knowledge and make Jerusalem the hub of all wisdom, be it scientific, artistic, technological, or intellectual. Sometimes he achieves this goal by importing foreign expertise. When approaching Hiram, the king of Tyre, in order to procure timber, Solomon specifies that \"there is none among us who know how to cut timber like the inhabitants of Sidon\" (5:20). Yet Solomon insists, \"My servants will work with yours\" (ibid.). His intention is that his men should learn this art, the work and skill of the lumberjack, from the Phoenicians. He imports not only cedar wood, but also the technical know-how, thus expanding the knowledge base and skill set of the nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Beyond Solomon's personal genius and prowess, he pools the most advanced knowledge and scholarship in his kingdom. He establishes Jerusalem as the center of global expertise. He turns it into the Yale and Harvard, the Oxford and Cambridge of the ancient world. It thus becomes a magnet for intellectuals and students who seek to further their education at this crucible of knowledge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaiah depicts Jerusalem as a city which will dispense wisdom and justice for all nations:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cShall stand firm above the mountains<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And tower above the hills;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And the many peoples shall go and say:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cCome, let us go up to the Mount of the Lord,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To the House of the God of Jacob;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That He may instruct us in His ways. (Is 2:3-4)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This vision of Jerusalem at the epicenter of the world community, replacing conflict with the wisdom of God - that is the vision that King Solomon was seeking to establish.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This chapter details the extent of Solomon\u2019s rule in both geographical and fiscal terms. He was unchallenged anywhere \u201cfrom the river\u201d (i.e., the Euphrates) all the way south to the Egyptian border (v.1), and he maintained a lavish and expensive life-style (2-3, 6 ff.). The literary question here is verse 4, which does not appear to add anything of substance to verse 1, which already established the sphere of his influence, save for the inclusion of the appositive phrase \u201cfrom Tifsah to Gaza.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A stipulation of traditional exegesis is that nothing in the Bible is redundant or extraneous, so what are we to derive from these words?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak reported on a talmudic disagreement over the significance of these two place names:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rav and Shmuel [disagreed]. One said Tifsah was at one end of the world and Gaza was at [the other] end of the world. One said Tifsah and Gaza were adjacent to each other. Just as he ruled [uncontested] over Tifsah and Gaza, so was he able to rule over the rest of the world (Megillah 11a).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another talmudic discussion pertinent to this chapter came apropos of verse 31, which describes the great stones\u2014that likely served in the foundation of the Temple\u2014as \u201chewn.\u201d The rabbis saw this as an ostensible contradiction to a later verse: \u201cNo hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built\u201d (6:7), and resolved it as follows: \u201cThey prepared them outside and brought them within\u201d (Sotah 48b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbis were as meticulous in their investigation of the text of Kings as Solomon himself was in his design and construction of the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In this chapter we learn about the gargantuan scale of King Solomon\u2019s enterprises. Should we be wholly impressed, when we read of the huge quantities of his daily food provisions, of his 40,000 stalls of horses, and the vast armies of laborers who brought cedar and cypress wood from Lebanon, the raw materials of the Temple? Who hasn\u2019t wondered, standing before ancient miracles such as the Acropolis or the Coliseum, or early modern marvels like Versailles, about the cost to the anonymous, forgotten workers who built them? Should we feel similarly about Solomon\u2019s glorious achievements?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To be sure, we learn that the workers who traveled to Lebanon were treated with far greater consideration that most construction laborers in the ancient world. Each shift spent a month in Lebanon, and two months at home. (v.28) The Talmud (<\/span>Ketubot<\/span><\/i> 62a) cites this verse in relation to the maximum length of time one who works away from home can be apart from his wife. The Temple was not built on the ruins of the family life and dignity of the thousands of men who toiled to create it. This is a powerful testament to Solomon\u2019s compassion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet there are undercurrents of disquiet in the midrashim and commentators about the human implications of these colossal endeavors. Rashi (v.30) for example is concerned to show that those who did the hardest work of quarrying and dragging the stones were not native-born Jews but proselytes who had been attracted to join Israel by the greatness of Solomon\u2019s kingdom (the implication being that they would have been satisfied to fulfill even menial roles.) Abarbanel, who as royal treasurer in Spain, knew about the logistics of supplying kings, details the immense apparatus of workers and overseers required to exact and transport Solomon\u2019s daily tribute of food.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A poignant questioning of the cost of all this grandeur appears in the Talmud (Bava Metzia, 86a) where the rabbis find ways to infer that Solomon\u2019s provisions (thirty kors of fine flour, ten fat oxen, a hundred sheep etc.) were many times greater than even the amounts detailed in the Bible. Rabbi Yitzhak argues that each of Solomon\u2019s 1000 wives made him a feast of these proportions in her house each night, because every wife thought to herself, \u201cPerhaps he will dine with me tonight.\u201d I don\u2019t think that this is merely a hyperbolic statement about Solomon\u2019s wealth. To me it evokes a tragic image of 999 lonely women gazing upon 999 untouched banquets every night of Solomon\u2019s reign, and the unspeakable waste involved in maintaining his opulent lifestyle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Should we then be troubled? Yes, somewhat. Our chapter and its commentaries show Solomon\u2019s uncommon concern for many of those who enabled his grand achievements, while also hinting at their inevitable human toll.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As the Bible tells us, man does not live by bread alone. Or better yet, man does not live by \u05dc\u05bc\u05b6\u05a4\u05d7\u05b6\u05dd alone. What, exactly, does \u05dc\u05bc\u05b6\u05a4\u05d7\u05b6\u05dd anyways? Making matters more complicated, the Arabic cognate \u0644\u062d\u0645 (<\/span>la\u1e25m<\/span><\/i>) means \u2018meat\u2019. According to Edward Ullendorff, the Semitic root means merely \"primary food\", so that the specific sense can vary from region to region.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It should be noted that the English word \u2018bread\u2019 once also had a broader meaning of \u2018food\u2019. Noah Webster\u2019s entry for \u2018bread\u2019 in his original 1828 dictionary has for one sense of the word, \u2018food in general\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is with this question in mind that we read 1 Kings 5:2: \u201cSolomon\u2019s daily \u05dc\u05bc\u05b6\u05a4\u05d7\u05b6\u05dd consisted of 30 kors of semolina, and 60 kors of [ordinary] flour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi provides insight into the manifold meanings of the word in his comments to Genesis 31:54 in which Jacob and Laban make a pact, which is concluded, in typical Jewish fashion, with a meal (\u05dc\u05bc\u05b6\u05a4\u05d7\u05b6\u05dd).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He says: Any article of food is termed \u05dc\u05d7\u05dd bread, as (Daniel 5:1) \u201cmade a great feast (lechem rav<\/em>)\u201d, and (Jeremiah 11:19) \u201cLet us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof (belachmo<\/em>)\". Thus, according to Rashi, although the Hebrew \u05dc\u05bc\u05b6\u05a4\u05d7\u05b6\u05dd can have the specific meaning of \u2018bread\u2019, it can retain its basic (or perhaps original) meaning of \u2018food\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This discussion regarding meaning is not trivial for the translator, since in any given context, the translator must choose between the two meanings. Thus, Harry Orlinsky notes in his Notes on the New Translation of the Torah (on the 1962 JPS translation), that he translated 'to eat lechem<\/em>' in Genesis 37:25 as 'to eat a meal' since \"<\/span>to eat bread<\/span><\/em>...fails to reproduce the idiom in Heb. akhal lechem<\/em>.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One way to have one\u2019s bread and eat it too is to read the use of \u05dc\u05bc\u05b6\u05a4\u05d7\u05b6\u05dd here as synecdoche, a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. In other words, the word \u05dc\u05bc\u05b6\u05a4\u05d7\u05b6\u05dd could mean \u2018bread\u2019 but be representative of the meal as a whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Coming back to our verse, based on the fact that the next verse (1 Kings 5:3) lists, among other things, 10 fattened oxen and 20 pasture-fed oxen, it seems likely that the broad meaning of \u2018food\u2019 is intended here.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":61762,"alt":"","title":"1kings5-bread","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread.png","width":1920,"height":1312,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-300x205.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":205,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-768x525.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":525,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-1024x700.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":700,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1050,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1312,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-1200x820.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":820,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-615x420.png","home_baner-width":615,"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":"Not By Bread Alone","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Solomon\u2019s daily bread was definitely not just bread...","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":61762,"alt":"","title":"1kings5-bread","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread.png","width":1920,"height":1312,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-300x205.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":205,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-768x525.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":525,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-1024x700.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":700,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1050,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1312,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-1200x820.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":820,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings5-bread-615x420.png","home_baner-width":615,"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":"I Kings","chapter":"5","chapter_main_number":"292","date":"20261012","wall_id":"292"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"415","name":"food","old_id":"815"},{"term_id":"811","name":"Bread","old_id":"1211"},{"term_id":"838","name":"Solomon","old_id":"1238"}]},{"order":14,"id":"61424","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Canny Negotiating ","post_title":"Canny Negotiating","slug":"canny-negotiating","old_id":"61424","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":54356,"post_title":"Robert Alter","slug":"robert-alter","old_id":"54356","first_name":"Robert ","last_name":"Alter","description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. 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5:23 \u201cMy servants will come down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will turn the wood into rafts in the sea, to the place that you will tell me, and I will break it up there and you will bear it off. And you on your part will meet my desire to provide the bread of my house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon has offered to pay the wages of Hiram\u2019s workers. Hiram now counters this proposal by stipulating a much higher price -- the cost of provisions for the Phonecian court with all its entourage for the entire period in which the labor is done. In this whole exchange, there is an element of canny bargaining reminiscent of the negotiations over a gravesite between Abraham and Ephron the Hittite in Genesis 25.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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\u201cSeven Species in Eretz Yisrael\u201d<\/a> by Rivkah Carl: Explore the seven crops that define the Land of Israel.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Wisdom of the Heart: A Reflection on Questions and Stories\u201d<\/a> by Josh Feigelson: What is the significance of stories?<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - I Kings 5","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"I Kings","chapter":"5","chapter_main_number":"292","date":"20261012","wall_id":"292"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":18,"id":"61699","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - I Kings 5 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - I Kings 5","slug":"points-to-ponder-i-kings-5","old_id":"61699","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"292","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. The royal eats<\/em>. Lots of animal protein and carbs: \u201cSolomon\u2019s daily provisions consisted of 30 kors of semolina, and 60 kors of [ordinary] flour; 10 fattened oxen, 20 pasture-fed oxen, and 100 sheep and goats, besides deer and gazelles, roebucks and fatted geese\u201d (verses 2-3).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The royal rides<\/em>. For the first time in Israel - a royal cavalry. And he doesn\u2019t hold back: \u201cSolomon had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariotry and 12,000 horsemen\u201d (verse 6). Too many horses is supposed to set off warning bells. But if you don\u2019t remember why - turn back 122 chapters to Deut. 17...<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Speaking of trees....<\/em> According to verse 13 Solomon \u201cdiscoursed about trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; and he discoursed about beasts, birds, creeping things, and fishes.\u201d That is, he spoke about them, not to them. But in later midrashim, we find Solomon\u2019s preternatural wisdom enlarged to include direct communication with the animal and vegetable kingdoms.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Corv\u00e9e<\/em>. Who were the many people who did all of Solomon\u2019s labors? \"King Solomon imposed forced labor on all Israel; the levy came to 30,000 men\u2026Solomon also had 70,000 porters and 80,000 quarriers in the hills, apart from Solomon\u2019s 3,300 officials who were in charge of the work and supervised the gangs doing the work\" (verses 27-30). 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