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Dec 30, 2022 · Shechem, a local prince, falls in love with Jacob’s daughter Dinah, and her brothers approve of the marriage as long as he is willing to be circumcised. Given Deuteronomy’s prohibition against intermarriage, later scribes revised the story into a slaughter of the natives. This was too harsh for later scribes, who recast the story as brothers avenging their sister’s rape. | Prof ...
The Torah does not tell us anything about what happened to her for the remainder of her life, nor if she ever married and raised a family. The Midrash (Bereishit Rabbah 80:10) fills in more detail about the events subsequent to Dinah’s abduction. It states that even after Simeon and Levi slew the city of Shechem, Dinah refused to leave captivity.
Jul 13, 2023 · Genesis 34 begins by stating, “Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to look at the daughters of the land.”. Rashi, basing his view on that of ancient rabbis ...
- Israel Drazin
- She Was the Daughter of Jacob and Leah. Scripture tells us that Jacob’s four wives bore 12 sons. After we read of the birth of 10 sons (six of whom were born to Leah),1 we are told, “And afterward, [Leah] bore a daughter, and she named her Dinah.”
- Her Mother Prayed for a Girl. Unlike her brothers, Dinah’s name comes with no explanation in Scripture as to why it was given. Dinah means “judgment,” and the Sages explain that Leah chose it because she had passed judgment on herself.
- Jacob Protected Her from Esau. Dinah was born when the family lived in Padan Aram, near her grandfather, Laban. As Jacob moved them back toward the Holy Land—his birthplace—they encountered her rogue uncle, Esau.
- She Was Raped and Abducted. After the family settled near the city of Shechem, the local prince, whose name was also Shechem, saw her, desired her, raped her, and took her to his home.
The strongest indication that the extraction of Dinah from the house of Shechem in verse 26b (ויקחו את דינה מבית שכם ויצאו) is secondary can be found in Shechem’s appeal to his father in verse 4, “get for me this girl as a wife,” and the similar appeals to the Jacobites that they “give” Dinah to Shechem (vv. 8, 12).
XXXIV. (1) Dinah . . . went out to see the daughters of the land. —Those commentators who imagine that Jacob sojourned only twenty years at Haran are obliged to suppose that he remained two or more years at Succoth, and some eight years at Shechem, before this event happened, leaving only one more year for the interval between Dinah’s dishonour and the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelites.
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Yet, in the most zealous act of chivalry, two of Dinah’s brothers conspired not only to rescue Dinah, but to repay Shechem for the terrible travesty of violating their sister. Simeon and Levi decided to kill Shechem and all the men of the village, who had stood silently by while Shechem committed this injustice.
