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Ei•sau and éÄùÒÀøÈàÅì Part Company
éÄùÒÀøÈàÅì Travels West Toward Shᵊkhëm ca. B.C.E. 1966

"Alright, let's travel!" Ei•sau announced. "Let's go, and I and my battalion will march alongside of you."

"A•don•i knows," éÄùÒÀøÈàÅì replied, "that there are children in my camp who cannot keep pace with your battalion of warriors. Also, responsibility for pacing the tzon and cattle is absolutely on me. Beating the livestock with a rod to keep pace with your warriors, even one day, and all of the tzon would die.

Rather, please a•don•i, go on ahead of your servant and I will conduct them slowly, at the walking mᵊlâkh•âh of the children, until I reach a•don•i at Sei•ir."

Qever Yoseiph, Shkhem destroyed by Muslim Arabs (1st time), 2000.10.07
Muslim Arab Jihadist-occupied Shᵊkhëm [Hellenized, then Arabized, to 'Nablus'] – ÷ÆáÆø Yo•seiph, ha-Tza•diq, 2000.10.07 – destroyed and desecrated by Muslim Arab Jihadist "Palestinians" of Arab-occupied Shᵊkhëm (Hellenized, then Arabized, to "Nablus"), celebrating on its ruins with their "Palestinian" flag.

"Please," Ei•sau offered, "I could introduce some of my kindred battalion of troops, who are with me, alongside your kindred to ensure your protection on your journey?"

"Why would this protection be necessary in Sei•ir when you control Sei•ir?" éÄùÒÀøÈàÅì asked. "Rather, let me find graciousness in the eyes of a•don•i."

So Ei•sau returned south that day dërëkh Sei•ir-ward while Ya•a•qov turned west, on the way toward Shᵊkhëm, bivouacking in a caravansary of suk•ot, where he built a house for himself and made suk•ot for his staff and livestock. Accordingly, the name of this village was called Suk•ot.

÷ÆáÆø Yo•seiph, ha-Tza•diq, burned–again (2015.10.16)–by Muslim Arab Jihadists. And world still learns nothing.

Finally, Ya•a•qov completed his journey, coming to Shᵊkhëm, which is in the land of Kᵊna•an; having returned from Pa•dan, A•râm and bivouacking for a while east of the city.

Then, for the price of 40 grams of silver coins,1 he acquired part of a field outside the city where he had pitched his tent, adjacent to the Bᵊn•ei-Kha•mor.2 (Kha•mor was the patriarch of Shᵊkhëm.) And éÄùÒÀøÈàÅì constructed a mi•zᵊbeiakh there, and called the place "àÅì àÁìÉäÅé éÄùÒÀøÈàÅì."

Optional parental preparation:

  1. Note 1 – A qesitah is given as 1/24 of an ancient shëqël (Beresheis, vol. 2, p. 1467, Artscroll Tanach Series), which averaged about 10 grams of silver (www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/weightsandmeasures.html). If we round-off the qesitah to 1/25 of a shëqël, then the qesitah was approx. .4 grams of silver. At this valuation, 100 qesitah coins totaled approx. 40 grams of silver. You can find today's valuation of the field by accessing today's prices of silver/gram, in your currency, on the internet – a bit less than US $20 in late 2015. Return to text
  2. Note 2 – Namely, relatives of Lâ•vân and the Aramaeans as well as relatives of Ei•sau, the Patriarch-Chief of Ë•dōm. Return to text

Questions you might anticipate that your child might raise and be prepared to discuss:

  1. How much is 40 grams? What is silver and why was silver valuable?
  2. How does the name of Ya•a•qov's settlement on the outskirts of Shᵊkhëm presage the Shᵊm•a? (Answer is in the pop-up balloons and links; hover your cursor over, and click on, the words in the name.)
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