Timeline for Understanding the reasoning of the woman who agreed with King Solomon to "cut the baby in half"
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| Nov 8, 2023 at 6:23 | comment | added | Nissim Nanach | צרת רבים חצי נחמה אני נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן כל העולם גשר צר מאד מאד כולו נ נח נחמ נחמן בירושלם | |
| Jun 20, 2019 at 21:41 | history | edited | alicht | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2019 at 4:15 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | I always imagined that the real mother showed genuine emotion, and would have rather give up her child and have it live than submit to Solomon's test. The other woman seems to be cold and calculating and uncaring about the fate of the baby. I don't see the need for syntactic analysis to determine who was the real mother, or for inspiration for the test in the first place. It changes Solomon's wisdom from emotional and intuitive to logical and analytical, which decreases him in my eyes. If he is just using words instead of motivations, he doesn't care about the women or the baby either! | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 1:10 | comment | added | Joshua | "There is a rule in man's language that he will always give precedent to what is primary and make later what is secondary" - This is not a serviceable rule, and I have heard others put great weight on putting the strongest or most important piece last. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 20:56 | comment | added | kouty | Mélanie Klein spoke about the concept of envy | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 15:52 | comment | added | alicht | @הנער הזה what Wipqozn said- shkoyach gadol! | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 14:31 | comment | added | Wipqozn | +1 Made an account just to upvote this. Like many I've known about this story since I was a child, but I never knew why the "false mother" didn't care if the baby was cut in half. It's a really critical piece that is left out of most homages to it. Very insightful read. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 3:38 | vote | accept | alicht | ||
| Jun 18, 2019 at 2:46 | history | edited | הנער הזה | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 18, 2019 at 1:25 | history | answered | הנער הזה | CC BY-SA 4.0 |