After we proposed as an initial assumption that Be`er sheva symbolizes the turning to other nations, we will see how this characteristic of the city is expressed in the geographical map of the city in the topographical map – being in an area of water wells and also in the map of the tribes.
And if we return to the Torah reading of Rosh Hashanah – we can now recognize the alternative that the Torah offers to Be`er sheva: the Be`er sheva desert. A place without water and without people, where Abraham sends Ishmael, and where later… Isaac also goes!
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