Sarah Palin – Aishes Chayil

 

Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blows a kiss to her baby during her speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 3, 2008.  (Reuters).

 

 

Governor Palin holds her youngest child Trig during a bill signing for Senate Bill 265, the omnibus crime bill, on the Capitol steps, in Juneau today [June 5, 2008].  Also pictured, from left, Rep. Bill Stoltze, R-Chugiak, Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage, and Alaska State Trooper Christopher Umbs.  (AP/Chris Miller).

 

The above picture was posted by MiJuBri Farms in her June 6, 2008 post entitled "Sarah Palin:  Our 'Queen Esther' for VP," which listed women of valor throughout history, including "the mythical Proverbs 31 Woman" (who "was not always a stay at home mom" but "dabbled in real estate and ran a textile business" while she was "up before dawn and prepared breakfast for her family and her servants"). 

 

From the comment by Yael to that post:     

 

I was surprised to see your reference to Proverbs 31.  She is "Aishes Chayil," an "Accomplished Woman" (or sometimes, "Woman of Valor") -- and very familiar to Jews.  It's our tradition that the poem is sung every Friday night at the Shabbat table, most often by the husband to his wife.  I thought you might also be interested to know that in Hebrew, the text is arranged into 22 lines, each line starting with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

 

“Strength and dignity are her clothing; and she laugheth at the time to come."  ( Proverbs 31:25 )

 

Shabbat Shalom.

Comments

[Yael]

Wow, what a beautiful post. Who woulda thunk it -- that the Proverbs of Solomon the son of David, King of Israel, might be so relevant three thousand years later?

Check out the most recent post at that blog -Aug. 29- and I quote:

Sarah Palin is McCain's VP choice and OUR HOMESCHOOLed son, Adam Brickley, is mainly responsible with his blog "Draft Sarah Palin for Vice President" . Want a popular blog...he's got 280,000 hits so far today and the press is all over him. The front page at Townhall.com has a picture of him on their front page and he's going to be on Fox News at 5:00 pm EST today and tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. He's been contacted by the Wall Street Journal, NBC, Fox New, the local media, and the BBC. And that's just the beginning. Here's the link to his interview on Fox News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbOfH4jSyI

The amazing innernut:)
Shabbat shalom.