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Read Genesis…
THE ORIGINAL PYRAMID SCHEME
Abraham Sister Whore/Wife for Profit/Prophet
The Jews Kvetch and Fully Admit It.
https://jwa.org/blog/risingvoices/sarai-and-silence-breakers
In Genesis 12:10-12:20, Abram and his wife Sarai go to Egypt to flee a famine. Abram asks Sarai to pretend to be his sister so that the Pharaoh might reward Abram because of her. Abram’s plan works, and when “the woman [Sarai] was taken to Pharaoh's palace,” Abram receives benefits from the Pharaoh. In other words, because Abram let Pharaoh sleep with Sarai (a situation made possible by the fact that Sarai was pretending to be Abram’s sister), Abram reaped benefits.
When I first read the line “through [Sarai] it did go well for Abram,” I wanted to be optimistic. Go Sarai, the first woman to succeed in the workplace! And in the Torah no less! But did she really succeed? As far as I can tell from the text, she never consented to Abram’s plan. Abram exploited his wife’s beauty and sexuality for economic gain. The midrash from The Torah: A Women’s Commentary explains that “the exchange of a woman has taken place.” Regardless of the fact that this text is part of Judaism, the religion I am committed to and hold dear, there’s no way that I, as a Jewish woman, can stand by the idea that it’s okay to treat women as possessions instead of people.
Moar Sauce: (WordPress…)
https://meetinggodinthemargin.com/2019/12/04/issues-in-genesis-the-trafficking-of-sarah-part-1/