Rape, Ruin and Silence

by Gregory Metzger One day Dinah, Yaakov’s only daughter, goes out to ‘visit the daughters of the land,’ and is seized and raped by Shechem, son of Hamor, the chief of that land. Yaakov hears of the rape but keeps silent until his sons are back from the field. Hamor pleads that Shechem longs for…