![]() ![]() Here is an article proffering a reason for the concern Jews have about Gid hanasheh.The laws of prohibition regarding the gid hanasheh are found in Tractate Chullin (Hullin), chapter 7. It may not be eaten by Jews according to Halacha (Jewish Law). Gid hanasheh (Hebrew: גִּיד הַנָּשֶׁה), often translated as "displaced tendon," is the term for sciatic nerve in Judaism. Here is a Wikipedia article about Gid hanasheh, the name the Jews give to the tendon associated with Jacob's injury.These nerves are responsible for providing many of the anatomical changes associated with sexual response. This process can cause sciatica, but can also affect the viability of the lower sacral nerves, before they exit through their designated neuroforamen. The structural contributor to sciatica-related sexual dysfunction usually revolves around nerve compression of the cauda equina nerve roots in the central canal, due to spinal stenosis. Here is an article on sexual dysfunction associated with sciatica.He appears to have sustained neurological injury to his sciatic nerve as well as musculoskeletal damage to his hip. This study describes in modern medical terms a traumatic hip injury suffered by the Biblical patriarch Jacob approximately 3,500 years ago. Here is the extract from a 1997 study into the injury Jacob suffered.It may have been God's way of preventing Jacob from fathering more than twelve sons. When the man strained the tendon of Jacob’s hip.) The tendon near the hip socket because of what happened that night 32(Even today the people of Israel don’t eat Said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”ģ1The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel, and he was limping because Then he blessedģ0Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he “Why do you want to know my name?” the man replied. ![]() You will be called Israel, because you have fought with God and withĢ9“Please tell me your name,” Jacob said. 26Then the man said, “Let me go,īut Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”Ģ8“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” the man told him. The man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob’s hipĪnd wrenched it out of its socket. 24This left Jacob all alone in the camp, andĪ man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break. 23After taking them to the other side, he sent Wives, his two servant wives, and his eleven sons and crossed the In some kind of divine encounter Jacob receives a hip injury:Ģ2During the night Jacob got up and took his two ![]()
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