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Which Hebrew word has made its way around the world into more than a thousand languages? The answer is true and reliable \u2013 that is, \u201camen.\u201d The word <\/span>amen<\/span><\/em> is used as an affirmation, be it of a blessing or a statement. It comes from the Hebrew root \u05d0-\u05de-\u05e0<\/em>, which means firm, straight, steadfast, enduring, trustworthy, or faithful.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The root gives us the verb <\/span>ma-amin<\/span><\/em>, which means believe, trust, be devoted to or have confidence in. Like English, Hebrew distinguishes between <\/span>ma-amin l-<\/span><\/em> which is to \"believe\" the veracity of something, used to affirm that someone is telling the truth, versus <\/span>ma-amin b-<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> which means to \"believe <\/span>in<\/span><\/em>\" or trust in the existence of something, such as whether God exists. The word for religious faith, often used in names of synagogues, comes from the same root: <\/span>emunah<\/span><\/em>. And we can sum up our own personal beliefs in a personal credo (a word from the Latin for \"I believe\"), as my \"<\/em><\/span>ani ma-amin<\/span><\/em>,\" <\/em>literally, my \"I-believe.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Closely related is the fundamental Hebrew word <\/span>emet<\/span><\/em>, meaning \"truth\" (the sound \"n\" had been swapped for a \"t\" at some point). The word is the same, whether we\u2019re talking about God's truth or simply about not fibbing. The word <\/span>emet<\/span><\/em> is said to be God's seal, and also the seal of Brandeis University (copycats). In the English-speaking world, the Yiddish pronunciation of <\/span>emet<\/span><\/em> is also common: <\/span>emmes<\/span><\/em>. \"The emmes-truth\" used to be slang for \"the real McCoy,\" a cross-your-heart kind of truth. For example, a news segment in the 1976 movie \"Network\" was introduced as: \u201cIt's Jim Webbing and his \u2018It's-the-Emmes-Truth Department.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A different sort of order is reflected in a noun that combines the idea of mutual trust with a vision of social order: <\/span>amanah<\/span><\/em>, meaning a covenant, pact, treaty, contract, or convention. This is used in contemporary Hebrew in terms like <\/span>amanah chevratit<\/span><\/em>, \"social contract,\" and international agreements, such as <\/span>amanat Geneva<\/span><\/em>, \"the Geneva convention.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If it sounds like the name of a refrigerator, that\u2019s because an industrious branch of German Lutherans set up a network of communal settlements, first in New York, and then in Iowa, under the name Amana. They chose the name for its covenantal associations and ended up creating a large corporation for household appliances \u2013 the Amana brand \u2013 which was later sold to Whirlpool.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word <\/span>amanah<\/em> <\/span>appears in our chapter, in which the people, who are faithful servants of the land, object to the riches produced going only to the wealthy and powerful. They make an <\/span>amanah<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> a pledge of solidarity that eases these harsh conditions, calling on all sectors of society to respect labor laws, anti-commercialism (by not violating the Sabbath rest), and observing the sabbatical year's remission of debts. They also consensually agreed upon a voluntary tax, in money and foodstuffs, for the upkeep of crucial public institutions and goods. For impoverished agricultural workers in the ancient world, clearly, these weren't just <\/span>amen<\/span><\/em>-ities!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In chapter 10 of Nehemiah, the people gather to sign a pledge to follow the words of the Torah. The implication, of course, is that there was widespread disregard for the laws of Moses. The pledge lists several examples: 1) no intermarriage with the people of the land, 2) no commercial work on Sabbath and Holidays, 3) the Shmita Sabbatical year laws will be observed for agriculture and debt forgiveness, 4) Temple donations, 5) first fruits, first born, tithes and other donations to the Temple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

All of these track commandments laid out in the Torah, but one is slightly different. \u201cWhen you take a census of the Israelite people according to their enrollment, each shall pay the LORD a ransom for himself on being enrolled...This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay: a half-shekel\u2026\u201d (Ex. 30:12). Part census, part fundraiser, the half shekel was one of the earlier laws given to the Israelites. The pledge in Nehemiah reinstitutes this practice, but instead of a half shekel it is a third shekel. \u201cWe have laid upon ourselves obligations: To charge ourselves one-third of a shekel yearly for the service of the House of our God\u201d (verse 33).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are two explanations provided by the commentators. Ralbag and Malbim explain that the monetary value of the one-third of shekel in Nehemiah is equal to that of the half shekel in the Torah. The understanding here is that the half shekel in the Torah was an actual amount of money that set a basic donation amount. Due to inflation that percentage of the shekel required could change if the resulting value was equivalent to the value of the half shekel in the Torah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibn Ezra and Metzudot David explain that this one-third shekel was actually in addition to the half shekel. This additional one-third was a way to subsidize the poor population. Nehemiah adds this to address the concerns brought by the poorer residents of Jerusalem in chapter 5.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

An alternative explanation could be that the population was mostly poor at the time and instituting a half shekel tax would have been too burdensome. Therefore, Nehemiah instituted a slightly less expensive tax. By doing so, he kept the uniform levy requirement in the Torah, but made it more accessible for the residents of Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The ceremonial fasting and prayer are the prelude to the essence of the assembly, which was to forge a new covenant to replace the one their ancestors had violated when they \u201ccast Your Teaching behind their back\u201d (9:26). Indeed, the use of the verb <\/span>k-r-t<\/span><\/em> (1) clearly links it to the preceding chapter, in which God\u2019s covenant with Abraham is described through the very same verb (8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, rather than referring to the covenant as a <\/span>b\u2019rit<\/span><\/em> here, it is called an <\/span>amanah<\/em> <\/span>(1), a word that appears only one more time in the entire Tanakh\u2014in Nehemiah 11:23. Pseudo-Rashi connected it to the verb <\/span>l\u2019ha\u2019amin<\/span><\/em>, to have faith, and it is so defined (\u201cfaith, support\u201d) in <\/span>A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament<\/em> <\/span>(Brown-Driver-Briggs, BDB). Malbim took it as though it were an adjective, \u201cfaithful,\u201d modifying the covenant to which it implicitly refers. JPS translated it here as \u201cpledge\u201d and in 11:23, as \u201cstipulation.\u201d Alter rendered it both times as \u201csolemn commitment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The substance of the \u201cpledge\u201d encompassed those subjects in which the people were demonstrably deficient such as intermarriage (31), Shabbat (32) and Shmitah observance (32), and several matters pertaining to the Temple (33 ff.), and it was signed by \u201cour officials, our Levites, and our priests\u201d<\/span> (1), Nehemiah, as governor (2), \u201cthe heads of the people\u201d (15), and, finally, \u201cthe rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to [follow] the Teaching of God, their wives, sons and daughters, all who know enough to understand\u201d (29), which would seem to include minor children as well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Scholars are divided on the question of the timing of the pledge. Because of similarities with some of the activities of Ezra (such as the rejection of foreign-born wives in Ezra 9), there are those who attributed it to him, while the linguistic links to the immediately previous chapter that we have noted have led others to assign it to the era of Nehemiah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\"\u2026 and [they] entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's Torah that was given by Moses the servant of God\u2026<\/em> (10:30)<\/p>\r\n


\r\nwhen Moses taught Torah
\r\nthe letters of God's name<\/p>\r\n

glittered<\/p>\r\n

as flashing lights
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each Word\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a volcano
\r\na sea\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 a continent of mountains and cliffs<\/p>\r\n

each Word\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a fern
\r\na flea\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a fish<\/p>\r\n

each Word\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 a feather
\r\non the wings of\u00a0 a flying dinosaur<\/p>\r\n

that became a bat
\r\nan ape\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a man<\/p>\r\n

and from the tribes of man
\r\nstepped forth the righteous<\/p>\r\n

in whose footsteps
\r\nin whose shadows<\/p>\r\n

glitter<\/p>\r\n

like gems in a high-priest\u2019s breast-plate
\r\nlike galaxies expanding<\/p>\r\n

the flashing lights
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10:35 \u201c\u2018And we have cast lots for the wood offering among the priests, the Levites, and the people to bring it at set times to the house of our God by our patriarchal houses year after year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God as it is written in the Teaching.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This system of casting lots for who is to bring wood for the altar fires is an innovation. The phrase \u201cwood offering\u201d is a bit off because the wood is not an offering, and the proper sense seems to be \u201cthe wood for the offering.\u201d It is noteworthy that this list of items in the solemn commitment by the the people is highly selective: it begins with the ban on intermarriage, then the sabbath, followed by the sabbatical year, with all the stipulations afterward--by far the majority of items--related to the maintenance of the temple cult. This was, of course, the great moment of renewal after the rebuilding of the Temple, but one may detect here evidence of Ezra\u2019s priestly agenda. It is certainly surprising that nothing of the ethical injunctions of the Torah and its calls for social justice appears in the <\/span>\u2018amanah<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. A pledge and a covenant.<\/em> The pledge (<\/span>amanah<\/span><\/em>) is reminiscent of the more familiar covenant ceremonies, such as the covenant at Mt. Ebal (Josh. 8), the covenant at Shechem (Joshua 24) or the covenant in the days of Josiah (II Kings 23) - but also different from them. What\u2019s similar? The Torah is mentioned, and there is a commitment, an oath and a curse. But the pledge is not called a covenant, and there are no cultic acts such as sacrifices at the Temple.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. What needs fixing.<\/em> From reading the pledge, we can get a sense of what was important to those who signed it, but also what the weak points were. Regarding identity - the idea of separation and boundaries, which we read about in Ezra (9-10); socially - the Shabbat, which we will read about in Neh. 13, as well as debt forgiveness, which we read about back in chapter 5; and regarding administration, the economic maintenance of the Temple and those who worked there, where the many regulations teach us that it was a significant issue in that period.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. 33% off!<\/em> The edict of a third of a shekel (verse 33) is reminiscent of the mitzvah of the half-shekel in Ex. 30:11-16 - just cheaper!<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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