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Parashat Vayigash<\/span><\/i> is set during the famine that Pharaoh dreamed and Joseph predicted in the previous portion. It features Joseph\u2019s reunion with his brothers and father, the resettlement of his entire extended family in the Goshen region of Egypt, and his on-going program to manage the famine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Concealed, but not quite, within this story is an important lesson about the global food supply. Egypt and the surrounding region have experienced seven years of plenty followed by drought and famine. Yet, because of shrewd management, there is food in Egypt, enough not only for local consumption but also for export.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The heart of\u00a0 Joseph\u2019s food management program was collecting surpluses, storing them and redistributing them in times of need. Joseph\u2019s use of that food to nationalize Egyptian lands, and enslave the Egyptian people to Pharaoh are controversial, but a simpler point underlies the story: the world produces enough food to feed its population (although climate change could alter that). Hunger exists because of human-caused storage and distribution problems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Based on official statistics, Leket Israel\u2019s \u201c<\/span>The Food Waste and Rescue in Israel Report for 2019<\/span><\/a>\u201d\u00a0 found that 2.5 million tons of food, approximately 35% of domestic food production, was wasted in Israel. Approximately 1.2 million tons of that amount was suitable human consumption and rescue. If redistributed, it would have been adequate to meet the nutritional needs of all food-insecure people in the country. The situation is not vastly different in other Western countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When the idea of Shmita is first introduced in Exodus 23, allowing the land to rest is explicitly tied to ensuring that food is available to all who need it \u201cLet the needy among your people eat of it\u2026\u201d (verse 11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From both the story of Joseph and the practice of Shmita, we learn that the earth, if respected, is capable of producing adequate food. Hunger is a human-caused problem that humans can solve, but it must be done thoughtfully. The social consequences of doing it poorly can be almost as severe as not even trying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our world is vastly different from the one in which Joseph worked, but the challenge remains: getting surplus food onto the plates of people in need, without degrading them in the process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This year is the shmita year: Shmita means a sabbatical year for the Earth but also for ourselves, our communities, and our world. Each week we continue to share thoughts on how the weekly parsha can help guide our thinking around shmita themes of work and rest, wealth and debt, responsible land use, fair labor practices, private and public property ownership, and physical and spiritual revitalization.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

See here for more information on the Hazon Shmita project, and its blogs.<\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":81608,"alt":"","title":"shmita","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","width":711,"height":708,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","medium_large-width":711,"medium_large-height":708,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","large-width":711,"large-height":708,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","1536x1536-width":711,"1536x1536-height":708,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","2048x2048-width":711,"2048x2048-height":708,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","post_full_size-width":711,"post_full_size-height":708,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-422x420.jpg","home_baner-width":422,"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":"A Weekly Series: The \"Shmitah Parasha\" Blog","tile_main_caption":"Vayigash: Feeding The World","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"in conjunction with Hazon.org","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":81608,"alt":"","title":"shmita","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","width":711,"height":708,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","medium_large-width":711,"medium_large-height":708,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","large-width":711,"large-height":708,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","1536x1536-width":711,"1536x1536-height":708,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","2048x2048-width":711,"2048x2048-height":708,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita.jpg","post_full_size-width":711,"post_full_size-height":708,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/shmita-422x420.jpg","home_baner-width":422,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"I Chronicles","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1178"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":2,"id":"99645","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Which Blood Did David Spill? 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While this chapter has no counterpart in Samuel, its subject\u2014the material and personnel preparations David made for the construction of the Temple\u2014is anticipated there, albeit without the wealth of detail provided here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1 Chronicles 22:9-10<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But you will have a son who will be a man at rest, for I will give him rest from all his enemies on all sides; Solomon will be his name and I shall confer peace and quiet on Israel in his time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He will build a House for My name; he shall be a son to Me and I to him a father, and I will establish his throne of kingship over Israel forever.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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2 Samuel 7:12-13<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When your days are done and you lie with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own issue, and I will establish his kingship.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\r\n<\/span>In his instructions to Solomon, David maintained that God had told him: \u201cYou have shed much blood and fought great battles; you shall not build a House for My name, for you have shed much blood on the earth in My sight\u201d (8). Noting that no such allegation was levelled against him in Samuel, Radak explained:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We have not found that God told him this, rather David thought it about himself that this is why God prevented him from building the Temple. Or [perhaps], Nathan the prophet told him this despite it not being recorded in the Book of Samuel, since this happens frequently\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

By \u201cYou have shed much blood on the earth,\u201d innocent blood is intended such as the blood of Uriah [the Hittite] or the blood of the priests [of Nob] whose [deaths] he caused, or even the blood of gentile nations who had not waged war against him and among whom there may have been good and righteous people. Despite these [possible infractions], he was not punished on their account because it was his intention to eliminate the wicked lest they attack Israel or to rescue his followers as in the case of his sojourn amongst the Philistines.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since [in any case] he spilled much blood, he was precluded from building the Temple, which is for the sake of peace, atonement, and prayer, just as it is prohibited to employ iron tools in the building of the altar because implements of killing cannot usually be transformed into tools of peace.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":64536,"alt":"","title":"2kings24-blood","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood.jpg","width":1920,"height":1368,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-300x214.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":214,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-768x547.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":547,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-1024x730.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":730,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1094,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1368,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-1200x855.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":855,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-589x420.jpg","home_baner-width":589,"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":"Which Blood Did David Spill?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Not what you might have thought","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":64536,"alt":"","title":"2kings24-blood","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood.jpg","width":1920,"height":1368,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-300x214.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":214,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-768x547.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":547,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-1024x730.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":730,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1094,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1368,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-1200x855.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":855,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2kings24-blood-589x420.jpg","home_baner-width":589,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"I Chronicles","chapter":"22","chapter_main_number":"886","date":"20290121","wall_id":"886"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":3,"id":"99647","color":"#f6f5de","size":"1","name":"David And The Temple In Jerusalem ","post_title":"David And The Temple In Jerusalem","slug":"david-and-the-temple-in-jerusalem","old_id":"99647","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> relates how King David proclaimed that the First Temple and its sacrificial altar should be built in Jerusalem: \u201cHere will be the House of the Lord and here the altar of burnt offerings for Israel\u201d (<\/span>verse 1<\/span><\/a>). Our chapter continues with the elderly king\u2019s thinking: \u201c\u2019My son Solomon is an untried youth, and the House to be built for the Lord is to be made exceedingly great to win fame and glory throughout all the lands. Let me then lay aside material for him\u2019. So, David laid aside much material before he died\u201d (<\/span>verse 5<\/span><\/a>). Then, David charges Solomon to build the Temple (<\/span>verse 6<\/span><\/a>), explaining that he had planned to be the one to build the Temple (<\/span>verse 7<\/span><\/a>). But God told him: \u201cYou shall not build a House for My name, for you have shed much blood on the earth in My sight. But you will have a son...<\/span>Shelomoh<\/span><\/em> will be his name and I shall confer <\/span>Shalom<\/em> <\/span>(i.e. \u201cpeace\u201d) and quiet on Israel in his time. He will build a House for My name\u2019 (<\/span>verses 8-11<\/span><\/a>, see<\/span> I Kings 8:18-21<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Note that<\/span> earlier in the Biblical narrative<\/span><\/a>, King David, living in a palace of precious cedarwood, suggests building a similar cedarwood dwelling for God. He is first informed by Nathan the Prophet, that it has been revealed to him by God: \u201c\u2026As I moved about wherever the Israelites went, did I ever reproach any of the tribal leaders\u2026, \u2018Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?\u2019\u201d But nevertheless, Nathan subsequently<\/span> tells David<\/span><\/a>: \u201cThe Lord declares to you that He, the Lord, will establish a house for you. When your days are done and you lie with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own issue, and I will establish his kingship. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish his royal throne forever\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the basis of these and other Biblical texts,<\/span> Rambam (Maimonides)<\/span><\/a> rules that it is a positive obligation to build a house for God where offerings may be brought and to make pilgrimage to it three times a year, as it<\/span> says<\/span><\/a>: \u201cAnd let them make Me a sanctuary\u201d\u2026 As soon as the Temple was built in Jerusalem, it was prohibited to build a sanctuary for the Lord or to offer a sacrifice in any other place. Only the Temple in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, was intended for all generations, as David said (<\/span>I Chronicles 22:1<\/span><\/a>), \u2018Here will be the House of the Lord and here the altar of burnt offerings for Israel.\u2019 For as God<\/span> says<\/span><\/a>: \u201cThis is my resting-place for all time. Here I will dwell, for I desire it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAmong the last acts of David was the counting of the Levites from the age of twenty and upward\u201d (verse 27).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This and the following chapters recount not only the census figures but also the work assignments of the Levites and priests in the Temple. Why was it necessary to make permanent work assignments?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbis in Number Rabbah (5:1) offered some opposing perspectives. Rabbi Eliezer ben Pedat said in the name of Rabbi Yose Ben Zimra, that some Levites were overly concerned by the risk inherent in handling the Holy Ark, and avoid that assignment in favor of less risky tasks. To avoid this slight to the ark, permanent assignments were necessary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Samuel Bar Nachman disagreed. On the contrary, he said that many people were ready to give their lives for the ark, and also sought the greater reward that accompanied the hazardous but important task. From his perspective, it was necessary to have an authoritative division of assignments to prevent animosity and quarrels.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We cannot know which of the rabbis, if any, correctly understood the mindset that motivated King David to prepare a Levitical duty roster even before the Temple was constructed. Conversely, it isn\u2019t difficult to imagine the situation within the community of each of them: where the tendency was to leave important but difficult tasks for others, and where leaders sought honor and took on more than they could handle even at the cost of less successful work. Or perhaps they were addressing not different communities but different people within the same community. An even finer resolution should also be considered: the varying behavior of the same person in diverse places and situations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is clear (to me at least) is that human nature has not changed. In any group, workplace, community or even family, organization for getting the job done is best done by considering not only individual strengths and skills but also character traits.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In chapter 21 we learned that David was punished for running a census. In chapter 23, however, we are told \u201cAmong the last acts of David was the counting of the Levites from the age of twenty and upward\u201d (verse 27).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why is this census different?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first answer is that this was not the same type of counting. In verse 6 we learn that David divided the Levites up. The census taken in verse 27 is a part of that dividing up instead of a census with the sole intention of trying to see how many people are in Israel as in chapter 21.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another possibility is that the census in chapter 21 was meant to be destructive. God was angry at the people so he caused David to count in order to bring calamity. This census had the pure intention of setting up service in the temple. Another possibility is that this census was only for a small segment of Israel: the Levites 20 years and older. A specific discrete census is ok, but a general census of the entire people is a sin. Exodus 30:11-12 maintains that a census must be conducted through payment of the half shekel as a means of counting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying: When you take a census of the Israelite people according to their enrollment, each shall pay the Lord a ransom for himself on being enrolled, that no plague may come upon them through their being enrolled. This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay: a half shekel by the sanctuary weight\u2026 a half shekel as an offering to the Lord.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Note that the prohibition is counting all the Israelite people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

David learned his lesson from chapter 21, and in this case conducted a proper limited census for pure intentions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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I Chronicles 24 lists the priests and Levites who held sway through the time of David. In the chapter\u2019s final verse, a rule regarding \u201clotteries\u201d is invoked: \u201cThese too cast lots corresponding to their kinsmen, the sons of Aaron\u2026 on the principle of \u201cchief and youngest brother alike\u201d (verse 31).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To what is this rule referring, and what might it connote?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Different lotteries were used in the Bible:<\/span><\/p>\r\n