Timeline for Understanding the reasoning of the woman who agreed with King Solomon to "cut the baby in half"
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| Nov 7, 2023 at 19:49 | answer | added | Imanonov | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 4, 2019 at 2:22 | comment | added | Jonathan | The OP asks "Was Woman B a dimwit?" Actually, King Solomon may not have been as wise as we like to think. Nvm, that was a joke. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 8:16 | answer | added | Schneur Zalman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 6:21 | answer | added | Turk Hill | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 4:37 | comment | added | alicht | @TurkHill yep đź‘Ť | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 4:28 | comment | added | Turk Hill | @alicht you want me to write an answer instead? I could do that. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 4:26 | comment | added | alicht | @alicht Shkoyach- great stuff! Want to write up as an answer with the sources? | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 4:22 | comment | added | Turk Hill | @alicht Another reason could be that the second woman might have felt guilty and begged for the child’s life to be saved, even if she stole it. Regardless, the Talmud says that Solomon learned of the true mother out of communication from HaShem. This would not add anything to his supposed wisdom. But the Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 79b says that King Solomon’s reign saw a surge of converts, including Jethro, the queen of Sheba. Midrash Song Rabba 1:10 also attributed biblical books of Song of Songs, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes to Solomon. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 4:21 | comment | added | Turk Hill | @alicht Yes. Olam Hatanakh and Robinson to name a few. There are of course other commentaries to chapter 3, in which two prostitutes come up to Solomon’s throne. Each claims the right to the child. Ultimately, Solomon ruled that the second woman must be the true mother to the baby. Some point the fact that he gave no real reason why this was so. A few commentators point that this story is echoed in many cultures. Others say that the true mother could have been the first women, since a child would interfere in her business, given that she was a prostitute. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 4:03 | comment | added | alicht | @TurkHill interesting- do you happen to have a source for that idea? | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 3:57 | comment | added | Turk Hill | There is an opinion that Solomon was not as wise as we’d like to imagine and that the episode where he threatened the cut the baby in half was a bad choice as many rabbis have noted that it was a wrong conclusion to conclude that the woman who did not cry was not the mother and vis-versa. These are not my thoughts but thought I’d mention it since no one brought it up. | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 16:24 | answer | added | Hypocritus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 8:46 | history | edited | alicht | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
changed "Shlomo" to "King Solomon" in question title
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| Jun 18, 2019 at 15:48 | answer | added | Silver | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 15:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackJudaism/status/1140997917915996160 | ||
| Jun 18, 2019 at 8:49 | answer | added | simyou | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 8:21 | comment | added | Shalom | By the way -- the story starts with Woman 1 telling a long sob story about a baby switch, and Woman 2 with a short denial. Which of these is the true mother (i.e. Woman A)? Radak says "Woman 1, her story rings true [and occupies all this space]." Malbim the lie-spotter says no, Woman 2. She's the one who puts mine is alive before yours is dead. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 8:19 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 18, 2019 at 3:38 | vote | accept | alicht | ||
| Jun 18, 2019 at 1:37 | comment | added | Oliver | She probably did but didn’t care. I don’t think that’s such a hard pill to swallow given the historical-social context. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 1:25 | answer | added | ×”× ×˘×¨ ×”×–×” | timeline score: 35 | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 0:12 | history | asked | alicht | CC BY-SA 4.0 |