Ask Tamar, Ruth, and Scheherazade.
רֶגַע… Rega… Wait, you say:
Scheherazade is not in the Bible, she is from the Thousand and One Nights, originally in Arabic, or maybe partly in Persian, but certainly not in Hebrew;
This, you remember!
Ok, point taken, her book was not in Hebrew, but Arabic is a sister language. More on this shortly…
Tamar was a Canaanite woman, and so had to learn Hebrew, or Judah’s dialect of Hebrew at the very least.
Ruth, a native of Moab, had to learn the Hebrew of the time of Naomi.
Scheherazade, at the palace, had to learn the hardest languages of all: the languages of heartbreak, of story, and of love.
So, you see, Scheherazade’s story is the same as that of her Biblical sisters: she was a clever woman faced with a survival situation in a man’s world. And she, like her sisters, had to learn a language in order to survive.
Each lady had to live by her wits in difficult times, and to use the tools available to her at that time. Nowadays, they would surely go together to the Public Library to learn to use the power of modern tools like computers and smartphones, especially using Unix to navigate this new world. And as they succeeded then, so would succeed again, using adaptability, daring, and hope.
Hope for us all.
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1. #libraries,
2. #ProBono legal aid and Education,
3. #UniversalHealthCare , and
4. good #publictransport
originally posted in April, 12020 HE
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Thank you for linking to my post! Your post strike me as I myself learned a new language as a child to survive. Words are powerful!
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Thank you for your permission and for your thoughtful words.
To surviving and hopefully thriving…
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I’ve just finished a book designed to help all of us thrive, available for free to thinkers and organizers, which may interest you: https://shiradest.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/the-writing-is-done-the-umbrella-project-has-begun/
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My pleasure, and I am glad that our posts work together: to power in words, and to a Safer, Kinder World for All…
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Informative! Looking forward for more of such write ups.
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Cool! Thanks, Josh!
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Here is a longer one, Josh:
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Reblogged this on My Blog.
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Thank you so much, Craig!
Stay safe,
Shira
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Reblogged this on ShiraDest: toward The Four Freedoms for All Human Beings and commented:
I enjoyed writing this post so much that I thought I’d repost it with some action items, now that I am relearning a few computer languages to get back in to my old line of work (Women in STEM rocked back in the late 80’s, kids!!): 1.) learn a word that sounds the same, but means something different in two ‘neighboring’ languages, like French and Spanish: Si!! Or Greek and Turkish: Nai!!/Ne?? Then: (2.) spend 5 minutes journaling about how that word could cause major misunderstandings between two neighboring countries!! 🙂 Talk amongst yourselves -about your Public Library’s online catalogue!!
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Reporting another like from the Y. B. side of the galaxy.
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Thank you, Ranger Mayann.
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