{"id":26829,"date":"2020-12-20T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26829"},"modified":"2020-12-20T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T12:54:10","slug":"rabbi-dr-sharon-shalom-director-of-onos-international-center-for-the-study-of-ethiopian-jewry-the-only-such-institution-in-the-world-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-meaning-of-the-seventh-day","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/news\/rabbi-dr-sharon-shalom-director-of-onos-international-center-for-the-study-of-ethiopian-jewry-the-only-such-institution-in-the-world-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-meaning-of-the-seventh-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom, Director of Ono\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry, the only such institution in the world, shares his thoughts on the meaning of the seventh day of the Passover holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/12\/Rabbi-Sharon-Song-of-Sea-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Rabbi-Sharon-Song-of-Sea-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/12\/Rabbi-Sharon-Song-of-Sea.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Tradition holds that on the 7<sup>th<\/sup> day after the Exodus, the Israelites escape comes to a halt as they encountered the impassable Red Sea.\u00a0 The Torah notes that \u201cThen They will Sing\u201d and follows with the Song of the Sea, one of the most glorious examples of biblical poetry in which the recently freed slaves praise God for the miracles He has done for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Shalom discusses the textual question raised by the medieval Jewish commentators (<em>Rishonim<\/em>), \u201cWhen did the Israelites sing the Song of the Sea?\u201d\u00a0 The tense of the verse quoted above is ambiguous.\u00a0 The word \u201cThen\u201d indicates that the Israelites sang before they crossed the waters but the phrase \u201cThey will sing\u201d is indicative that they sang after they had already passed through.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Shalom brings insight to this question drawing on his own personal experience as well as that of all of Ethiopian Jewry.\u00a0 He noted that when he fled Ethiopia on his way to Israel, he came up against the impassable Sudanese desert. However, like his Israelite ancestors before him, he and his compatriots sang a song to God that was in part, prayer and in another, celebration.\u00a0 Rabbi Shalom concluded that the in the same way, the Israelites must have begun singing before they crossed the Red Sea and continued singing during the entire passage.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tradition holds that on the 7th day after the Exodus, the Israelites escape comes to a halt as they encountered the impassable Red Sea.\u00a0 The Torah notes that \u201cThen They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":189,"template":"","class_list":["post-26829","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}