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Struggle is a Shared Value

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(Cross-posted from Interfaith Youth Core)

I had just taken my first bite of lunch when I suddenly saw everyone around me stand up and head for the front door. I hadn’t even heard the siren. I put my sandwich down and joined my fellow classmates filing into the bomb shelter, where we gathered for ten minutes before deciding it was safe to return.

The first thought I had when I emerged from the basement was how lucky I felt to be an American studying in Jerusalem right now, and not a Palestinian living in the Gaza Strip. I feel deep sadness for the many Palestinians in Gaza, and Israelis, who have lost loved ones in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, and I can’t help but think that this kind of struggle is not the pathway to peace.

Ironically, the rabbi who was speaking to my class just before the siren sounded was giving a lecture on the importance of struggle in Jewish spirituality. He was encouraging us to make our lives about the pursuit of justice, meaning, and truth, rather than simply the pursuit of comfort.

His talk resonated with me deeply, and it is with that attitude of non-complacency that I approach today’s most recent bout of Islamophobia. This time it has taken the form of subway and bus ads in Chicago and NYC declaring, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” I speak out against these ads not only because they insult and distort the beliefs of my Muslim friends, but because they offend my Jewish beliefs as well.

In the spirit of pursuing truth and justice, I think it’s important to first give proper and fair context to religious beliefs. What I’ve learned about jihad from interfaith dialogue with Muslims is that there are two commonly accepted meanings of jihad: an inner spiritual struggle and an outer physical struggle, both in pursuit of the divine. The idea of “wrestling with G-d” is also an important Jewish value, straight from the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with the Angel.  Therefore, a sign saying “Defeat Jihad” is not only offensive to Muslims, it’s offensive to me as a Jew.

I also take issue with the ad’s language of “defeat.” Jacob did not wrestle with the Angel with the intention of defeating or killing it, but with the intention of receiving a blessing. That is a very different kind of struggle. Holy struggle is something that is meant to bring about blessings and peace, not divisiveness and hate. Therefore, Islamophobic signs about “defeating” jihad are a tactic of exactly the kind of struggle that is not holy.

It is also this sense of the need to “defeat”—rather than constructively struggle with—“the enemy” that bothers me most about the conflict in Gaza. It bothers me so much that when I recite the prayer for the protection of my friends in the Israeli Defense Forces, I cross out the two lines in the prayer pertaining to the “defeat” of the enemy. I appreciate that terrorism cannot be negotiated with, but it is the issues of the occupation in Gaza and the desires of both Israelis and Palestinians to have their own functioning societies that are at the core of the present struggle.

My deepest hope at this time is that the shared Jewish and Muslim value of divine struggle can be used a principle for the Israeli-Palestinian struggle to bring about times of blessings and peace.

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Help us pursue Justice in honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut

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We are a group of international students living in Jerusalem deeply disturbed by the racism that has recently manifested itself in a series of violent incidents involving the Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans.

On March 19, hundreds of Beitar fans stormed the Malha mall in Jerusalem, violently assaulting Arab workers while chanting racist slogans including “Death to Arabs.”  The Jerusalem Police took almost an hour to arrive on scene.  During that time the violence continued, and no arrests were made until Haaretz reported the story days later.  To this date, only sixteen fans have been arrested.  Of these, six have been banned from future soccer matches and none have been charged with a criminal offense in spite of the footage available from the mall’s security cameras clearly documenting the mob’s violence.

On April 15th, Beitar Jerusalem fans marched through Jerusalem, chanting anti-Arab slogans which again included “Death to Arabs,” on their way to a home game.  A 50 year-old Israeli woman who objected to their racist slogans was beaten, knocked on the head with a flag pole, and repeatedly spat on.

As students of Torah and Jewish values, we are appalled at the actions of the Beitar fans and the inadequate response of the police and the Israel government to these racist actions, which are so horribly reminiscent of the pogroms enacted against Jews throughout history. We believe in a Judaism that upholds the values of equality, dignity and social justice for all people.

With Israel’s national day of Independence upon us, we remember that this State was founded on the promise of ensuring “complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.” This State was founded on principles of freedom and justice and as a way to prevent the atrocities that have plagued the Jewish people for thousands of years. With this legacy, how is it the State of Israel will now turn a blind eye and deaf ear to the violent mob which brazenly walks its streets?

Please help us to stand up for justice.  Visit http://www.change.org/petitions/israel-police-prosecute-the-perpetrators-of-this-racist-mob-to-the-full-extent-of-the-law and sign our petition.

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מעבדות לחירות [From Slavery To Freedom]

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[cross-posted from my blog]

Celebrating Pesach in Israel, for only the second time in my life, has definitely been a unique and enjoyable experience.  From the relative lack of restrictions on access to delicious food — since so many of the restaurants in the city stay open with completely kosher-for-Pesach menus — to enjoying a seder with some of the inspiring and engaged Jews I have the privilege to study with this year, I am sure I will remember this Pesach for years to come.

There are two thoughts that have occupied me leading up to this year’s seder, connected to two of the classic themes of the holiday.  The first I spoke of during the seder: in thinking about the plagues (whether there were 10 or 300 of them, as the Midrash brought in the Hagaddah asserts), I was struck by the rabbinic impulse to argue that there were more plagues inflicted upon the oppressors of the Israelites in their effort to become free.  Why stress the plagues, and the attendant suffering they caused the Egyptians?  What kind of god does that imply that the Israelites (and the rabbis) believed in, and what theological differences would it have made had the Midrash (or the Torah itself) instead tried to minimize the plagues, championing the miracle that Hashem was able to free the Israelites with a minimum amount of harm dealt to the Egyptians?

The second is much more of a modern, grounded concern.  I have focused a little bit this year on a problem of slavery as it exists in the world today, in the form of sexual trafficking.  From volunteering for ATZUM’s Task Force for Human Trafficking, to reading and talking about Half The Sky, the plight of trafficked people has been prominent for me this year.  The tie-in to the seder occurred when I began thinking about how the formal seder ends (before the concluding songs): לשנה הבאה בירושלים — Next Year in Jerusalem!  As someone celebrating the seder in Jerusalem, with little chance of doing so next year, I began to wonder what Jews have traditionally said about this paradox (quite different from being in another country with an equally slim chance of celebrating the following year in Jerusalem).  The basic understanding of this phrase, shared by many, is that the ‘Jerusalem’ referred to is not the city I have been living in this year, but rather ירושלים של מעלה — The Heavenly Jerusalem.  The call at the end of the seder is not one of mass aliyah to Jerusalem, but rather a call to rebuild our world as a whole to more properly reflect what we would consider a heavenly Jerusalem.  I could not help but think that the Jerusalem I had in mind when saying that concluding phrase would have no place in it for the sexual trafficking that occurs in ירושלים של מטה — the Earthly Jerusalem which I live in.

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A good news day in Israel

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Dear all,

Thank you to everyone who signed the letter or attended the demonstration in support of the proposed bill criminalizing the purchase of sexual service in Israel. Today we received the fantastic news that it was approved by the Justice Committee, meaning it will almost certainly make it through the Knesset and become part of Israeli law. This is a good day for Israel! You can read more about it here.

Also pasted below is a message of thanks from Rabbi Levi Lauer, founder of Atzum, one of the leading voices in the fight against sex trafficking in Israel.

Best wishes,

Rose

Message from Levi Lauer:

Dear All,

Mazal tov!!!!

Today’s vote in the Ministerial Committee to approve legislation criminalizing the purchase of sexual services is a victory f or all who seek to free Israel from the evils of sex trafficking and the degradation of women and children. The message is clear: human bodies are no longer for sale in an enlightened society; trafficking in sexual services and prostitution are no longer legitimate enterprises on our streets; clients who rape sex slaves and make women and children the victims of their perverse power are now criminals. I celebrate this decision together with MK Orit Zuaretz who tirelessly advanced this legislation; with Zahava Galon who fearlessly laid the foundations for this effort in the Knesset; with Minister of Education Gidon Saar who for many years and through many political thickets supported these efforts; with the many organizations and volunteers who brought this measure to wider attention; and above all with the staffs of ATZUM , Kabiri-Nevo-Keidar, and the Task Force on Human Trafficking wh o coordinated the information, legal and lobbying campaigns that brought us to this day. Now we need remain zealous in our insistence the enforcement and judicial agencies do all in their power and new authority to arrest, prosecute and punish the pimps and traffickers — and now the clients, who have far too long, too easily turned too many of our streets and neighborhoods into comfortable environments for the brothels and slave pens that are our shame and disgrace.

Levi Lauer
Rabbi Levi D. Lauer
Founding Executive Director, ATZUM

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Help Israel combat sex traffickin​g and prostituti​on

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Dear all,

At Sunday’s community lunch I mentioned a new project I was working on for Rabbi Levi Lauer’s organisation Atzum and the Task Force on Human Trafficking.   Please see below for more details and how you can help with the mere click of a button.

As I am sure you are aware Israel is a major destination for sex trafficking and research shows that most of Israel’s prostitutes enter the sex industry between the ages of 12 and 13. In its Trafficking in Person’s Report for 2011 the US State Department labelled Israel a “tier 2″ country, meaning that Israel has not only a significant amount of human trafficking but has failed to take adequate steps to combat it. It is estimated that there are currently more than 10,000 prostitutes working in Israel, 4,000 of whom of minors. Most of t he women and girls who work in prostitution are controlled by pimps, and experience significant acts of violence at the hands of their clients. The customers of prostitutes come from every segment of society, and they make an estimated million visits a month to forced prostitutes.

Next month on February 12th, the Ministerial Committee, comprised of 21 ministers, will be voting on a crucial piece of Israeli legislation. The legislation under consideration, proposed by Kadima Knesset Member Orit Zuartez, criminalizes the purchase of all sexual services. This bill is based closely on the Nordic Law, which has been enacted in Sweden, Iceland, Norway, and most recently France. The Nordic model, which establishes consequences for those who purchase sexual services, works on the principle that in order to effectively combat sex trafficking and prostitution the demand for sexual services must be addre ssed. It has proven to be an effective deterrent to potential clients of prostitutes and the countries that have passed legislation based on this model have seen significant declines in both prostitution and sex trafficking.

In addition it is vital that we lobby the Ministerial Committee to send the proposed bill to the Knesset, and allow it to be put to a vote. Without your help in lobbying for this the Committee could decide to kill the bill. We therefore ask that you take part in our 119 campaign to lobby the individual members of the Justice Committee by writing to explain how important this legislation is and how urgent the need is for it to be passed now. To send an automatic letter to the Justice Committee showing your support for the bill please click on the link below:

http://atzum.org/projects/task-force-on-human-trafficking/project-119/letter-to-members-of-knesset/

And invite all your friends to join the facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-119-Lobbying-to-Banish-Sex-Slavery/209985302427754?sk=wall.

We are also hoping to organize demonstrations on this issue outside international Israeli Consulates on the 5th of February at 11am. If you know people in your home towns who may be willing to take part please do let me know and I will help you to organise. With your help this bill will make it into the Knesset, where we will continue to lobby for it to be passed into Israeli law.

The Task Force on Human Trafficking strongly believes that Israel must eradicate this form of modern slavery. The time has come for our society to stop tolerating the purchase of sexual services. There must be real  consequences in place for those who purchase sex to the great detriment of women, children, and Israeli society as a whole. This is a call to action. If you care about the future of Israel, if you want the State to be a leader in the war against modern slavery, then we urge you to get involved in our campaign.

If you have any questions, want to do more to help or would or like to see a copy of the proposed bill please either email or find me in person to discuss.

Best wishes,

Rose

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French instead of English

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When you watch the news and learn that something terrible has happened, it is easy to gauge the disaster by how many people were killed.  You can classify it even more by which people were affected.  Were they children or elderly?  Poor or rich?  Humanitarians or average joes?  In the back of your mind lurks the recognition that each life has infinite significance and the loss of any is tragic.  That is one space to confront atrocity.

I have to confess that oftentimes I operate under a different mindset.  When I learn about a life-stealing circumstance, I very often separate myself from the reality of what I face.  On a superficial level I do the math–the counting and comparing and assessing–but deep down the information hasn’t even touched me.

This year I am volunteering with an organization that (among other things) assists families affected by terror.  I was matched up with an 18 year old girl who lost her sister 8 years ago to a suicide bomber on a bus.  Every week I visit her under the auspices of helping her to prepare for an English exam.  Really I am there to learn.

In the apartment, a picture of a beautiful woman in a wedding dress hangs prominently.  She isn’t silent like other pictures, though.  She weighs in on conversations.  Her presence is wrapped around each family member as they go about daily tasks.  She draws you in.  When I am working with Sarah*, my student, I can feel her calling to me, wrapping herself around me too so that I can be a conduit of her love for her sister.

Sarah is bright and amiable and promising.  She catches onto things quickly and attacks her ignorance with a vengeance.  She is also chronically tired and a little forgetful.  Because of this, I have started calling and texting her before our meetings to remind her that I cam coming.  Still she often forgets.

Last night was an example.  I started by texting her at two.  With no response, I called on my way to the bus and then to let her know traffic was bad.  When her mom opened the door to me later, surprise was at the periphery.  Sarah was apologizing over and over again; she couldn’t believe she had forgotten and the whole family was over barbecuing .  I said all of the usual not-to-worries and suggested we could practice conversational skills or even meet next week.

Cosmetics were strewn all about and Sarah was in the middle of giving her aunt a makeover.  Her mom made me a cup of tea the way I like it and plopped me down by a table filled with food and dirty plates and cell phones.  Did I want to eat?  No thank you, I’ve already eaten but thank you for the offer.  My student is still being an artist and I’ve tucked my elbows away under the table and my tea and am tring to latch onto key phrases and words so that I don’t accidentally miss a social cue.  That’s pretty easy considering I don’t really speak Hebrew.

The conversation shifts into a Hebrish punctuated by lots of laughter.  In trying to introduce me to everyone, Sarah’s mother has accidentally referred to her sister as a distant relative who never visits.  When she tries to clarify, I am under the impression that her sister is actually her daughter-in-law.  Now everyone is laughing.  It’s good.  Everyone is included in the laughter and everyone is confused.

As the laughter continues, Sarah gathers up her shadows and her mom starts bringing out cookies from the kitchen.  Sarah comes to the table and reminds her mom that I am allergic to cookies.  It’s ok.  I am truly grateful for the offer and the energy she has extended me.  I ask Sarah if she would like to learn.  I feel out of place without a function.  She asks me if I would like to have my nails done.

Sure.  I feel like a sorry tutor.  After all, I am not motivating my student or even teaching her really.  And now she’s brought out bottles and bottles of nail polish.  Do you want pink or red or flowers, or ooooo French!?  I want to let her pick, but some of the pinks are shocking.  How about a French?  Now I am aiding and a-benefiting from my student’s unfocuse.

It turns out that this is Sarah’s passion.  She went to cosmetology school.  And she’s really amazing.  And she loves it.  Between nails and bottles and Hebrew nouns she tells me that one day she’ll open a salon of her own.  Family members flit in and out, chatting with us at intervals.  It feels nice to get to know Sarah as a person, and to meet her dreams.  So often I feel trapped by language and my “function” into formality and productivity.  And I like getting to see her for who is is rather than what happened to her and what she needs.

My nails are done and I ask her if she wants to learn or save that for next week and thank her and remark about how beautiful my nails now are.  She insists her head isn’t in the right place to learn, but maybe she could just read to me and I will check her pronunciation?  She retrieves her books and a fancy nail dryer and we start reading about the “Lone Star Motel.”  In the article, a night at the hotel is advertised as $28, but really the cost is much higher.  Isn’t that the truth!  The article is full of grammatical mistakes I don’t want to tell her about.

We start to chat slowly in English.  Her English is really quite good.  I tell her so and she blushes.  We chat some more; make a plan for next week, and I get up.  The evening has gone by, most of the family members have left by now, it seems like it’s time to go.  Could you stay five more minutes?  My heart swells and I feel totally consumed with joy and love for this bright soul and gratitude.  Of course I can stay!  I sit back down.  Her sister smiles from the wall.

Later, as I am riding back home on the bus, I can’t stop smiling.  I am so honored by our friendship, so touched by the way her family has taken me in, and so inspired by the way they constantly transform loss into love.  When I started visiting Sarah, I knew that there is no fixing the loss of a dear relative.  I knew that I wasn’t there to be a band aid or a distraction.  When I visit Sarah, I enter a very different world from my own.  There pain is raw even eight years later.  Her sister is very much gone, but her absence is very present.  I realize that I am not there really to teach her English.  Really I am there for make-overs and nails and dirty dishes and cookies and love.  I am there to watch Sarah shine and cheer her on.  I am there in honor of the beautiful woman in the picture on the wall.  English is just a subtext.

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Inspired

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“Sleep less, do more…and have the courage to fail.”

-Rabbi Levi Lauer

Every Tuesday at Pardes, we have a school-wide learning session, where a faculty member or guest lecturer speaks about a “critical issue” facing the community.

Last week, we heard from Rabbi Levi Lauer, a past dean of Pardes and the current executive director and founder of ATZUM, a social action organization in Israel.

The organization was founded in 2002 “to remedy injustices in Israeli society, and encourage individuals to become social activists and agents of change.” The main issues that the organization currently focuses on are:

  • Confronting and eradicating human trafficking in Israel.
  • Providing support for terror attack victims, and their families. 
  • Improving the lives of “righteous gentiles” (non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust) living in Israel.
  • Empowering the youth of the Ethiopian community in Israel.

Relating his discussion to our studies at Pardes, Rabbi Lauer emphasized the importance of studying text and grappling with the important questions that it demands of us. What does social justice really mean? What does it mean to be a good person? Why is there so much suffering in the world? What can (and what should) we do about it?

On the other hand, he suggested that maybe we are preoccupied with words, and it moves us away from the “pain of the streets.” In other words, we shouldn’t just study, we should go out and do. We shouldn’t just learn what it means to be a good person, we should take action and put our values into practice.

The “pain of the streets.” This phrase in particular really spoke to me.

I am often overwhelmed by the suffering and injustices of the world, yet I somehow find myself drawn to them. When I watch the news, I feel empathetic to the point of taking others’ pain on as my own pain, to the point that the story stays on my mind much longer than it should. My mom sometimes makes fun of me for reading socially-just books “just for fun” (you mean to tell me that “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” isn’t a beach read?).

In all seriousness, I find myself paralyzed with what my role is, so much so that I often end up doing nothing. I used to think that this slightly-neurotic mindset was a curse, but Rabbi Lauer’s lecture today made me feel that it’s actually the opposite: “we were not created to be ambivalent, we were created to make a difference.”

Rabbi Lauer ended with a brief story, highlighting the importance of helping ONE individual:

Yitzhak is boy whose father was killed in a suicide bombing attack on an Israeli bus. Yitzhak was on the bus as well. He survived, but not un-scarred. Since the attack, Yitzhak has not been able to set foot on a bus. Because of all the medical bills, his family doesn’t have very much money, and can’t afford a car. Since his family lives below the poverty line, the government provides a little assistance (including bus tickets), but this still isn’t able to get Yitzhak to school.

At this point in the story, Rabbi Lauer paused, almost at a loss of what to say next. I could see in his eyes, and hear in his voice, the passion and the pain that comes with doing social justice work. 

“We were created in order to get Yitzhak to school. That’s why this state was created. We have to get him to school.”

We were created to care, to act, and to alleviate the pain of others. Thank you, Rabbi Lauer, for the much-needed reminder.

*The quotes on this page were as I wrote them down,
but they might have slight inaccuracies.
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Time To Act

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I have spent my entire life living in the world of formal educational environments. I have learned a lot while doing so, and am immensely comfortable in such a setting. Since high school especially, much of the learning I have been exposed to – Philosophy in undergrad and Pardes – has had a lot to say about how one should live their life in the best way possible. What has not been focused on, however, are the practical steps involved in taking all that theory and advice and living such a life, specifically about using any number of the blessings that I do not fully appreciate and helping to improve the world in whatever small ways I can.

I am davka not a procrastinator, and, morally speaking, I do not tend to rationalize putting off self-improvement in favour of sticking to the familiar once I am sufficiently convinced that a change in lifestyle is required (for instance, my recent and clearly belated decision to become a vegetarian was not easy, but necessary). However, the problem with this specific change – shifting to thinking of my life as needing to include a much more significant time commitment to helping others – is tough because of the very learning that one might think would be helpful in spurring such a change in action. I can listen to all the inspiring lectures I want, and then simply return to life as it was before, feeling like I am making an investment for the future. That is because it is easy for me to say that since I am learning about how to be a better person, I can leave off the doing until I am ‘done’ learning about it. Further, it is extremely satisfying to surround myself with books and easy to delude myself into thinking that knowledge is good for its own sake. Yes, the Social Justice Track tries to bridge the gap, and does an admirable job of it in certain areas. The problem is the same, though, because especially if I am spending my time learning texts geared so specifically to social action, and yet am not acting, I can lull myself into think that I am doing all that I need to.

But I have now taken the necessary step back, and looked at the situation a little more objectively. The conclusion is clear – in order to change, I need to think less about the change that needs to be made and just do it; only through making it a part of my everyday life will it become normal. While I would not even be considering this shift in focus if it were not for my learning, and so it is the learning that has ultimately led me to this point, it is equally clear that my learning can stand to benefit immensely from living some of what I learn, and that it is hypocritical to do anything but combine the living and the learning.

This reflection was indeed spurred by the learning that the Social Justice Track has exposed me to, specifically the talk given at Pardes a month or so ago by Rabbi Levi Lauer. And if you can’t read the caption on the picture, it says “It only takes a single thought to move the world.”

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Parshat Vayeishev

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My post at Uri L’Tzedek below:

In Parshat Vayeishev, after Yosef is captured by his brothers and sold into slavery, the Torah digresses to the esoteric story of Tamar and Judah. After the death of Tamar’s husband Er, Judah’s firstborn, she marries Er’s younger brother Oran. When Onan also dies, Judah instructs Tamar to wait in his house before her future levirate marriage to his third son Shelah. Time passes, and upon realizing that Judah will perhaps never permit her to marry Shelah, Tamar takes matters into her own hands. Disguising herself as a harlot, she seduces Judah, and he impregnates her. When Judah learns that his widowed daughter in law, Tamar, is pregnant, he complies with public accusation of Tamar as an adulteress. As Tamar is taken out of her home to be burned, she does not declare her innocence by directly confronting Judah.

It is bewildering that Tamar abstains from announcing her innocence, especially for the sake of her life and unborn child. Rashi interprets her silence as attesting to her piety. Citing Sotah, Rashi reminds us that a person should go to extreme lengths to avoid embarrassing another. In this light, perhaps Tamar chose to sacrifice her dignity to avoid embarrassing Judah publicly. However, I propose that Tamar keeps her secret because she feels frightened that if she tells the truth- a daring move- maybe nobody would believe her. Tamar wisely realizes that pointing out the truth to Judah directly could cause him to deny everything, perhaps out of shame. And without his corroborated testimony, she would be unable to prove her innocence. Afraid of this result, Tamar felt powerless to act.

Modern day juxtaposition to Tamar’s dilemma is our own reluctance to mobilize awareness of injustice in our communities and in Israel, because we feel concerned that doing so might negatively impact public perception of Jews. There are numerous reported instances of Jewish business owners not adhering to ethical labor practices. In Israel, furthermore, there is the egregious reality of human trafficking. These affronts to human dignity stand diametrically opposed to the fundamental ethical principles of Judaism. It can feel difficult to advocate publicly for these victims and demand change in the status quo, because these incidents are not only embarrassing, but also represent a breach of trust in our commitment to live holy lives. This fear for our reputation, but more so, the sense that we feel powerless to create adequate reform, sometimes perpetuates these immoral activities and hinders change.

Ultimately, Tamar does not allow fear to curtail her demand for justice. She arranges to have the objects that Judah gave her when she was disguised as a harlot delivered to him. Upon recognizing them, Judah proclaims צדקה ממני ‘she is right, it is from me’, disclosing his feelings of responsibility for her pregnancy. Ramban and Rashbam, however, read these words differently, as ‘she is more righteous than I’. Based on this reading of the text, Tamar ascends to a higher level of righteousness after she reveals the truth. Like Tamar, when we encounter injustice, let us not feel paralyzed by the fear of disclosing these crimes, but instead have the conviction to expose them in order to pursue true justice.

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Learn more about how you can advocate for the abolishment of human trafficking in Israel by visiting ATZUM’s Task Force Against Human Trafficking webpage at http://tfht.org/

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