Judges When the people cried to the Lord, he sent someone to save them. He was Ehud, son of Gera from the people of Benjamin, who was left-handed.
Israel sent Ehud to give Eglon king of Moab the payment he demanded. Ehud made himself a sword with two edges, about eighteen inches long, and he tied it to his right hip under his clothes.
Ahiezer was their leader, and there was Joash. Ahiezer and Joash were sons of Shemaah, who was from the town of Gibeah. There were also Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth. There were Beracah and Jehu from the town of Anathoth. U niqueness. Ephesians For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. The International Left-handers Day is held annually every August 13 th. The 13 th was chosen to poke fun at superstitions surrounding left-handedness which survived to modern times.
It was founded by the Left-handers Club in , with the Club itself having been founded in The International lefthanders Day of 13 th August was used as a platform to get publicity about it in print, television and online media around the world.
But this cannot be achieved if the fact of left-handedness and ambidextrous among pupils is overlooked. The most important element in all of education is the element of individual differences.
Though the study of human variability is not a new field of inquiry, but this line of scholarly activity has been strangely neglected or ignored in the educational realm, particularly in the developing countries. Classroom teachers are, and have been, somewhat adept at providing for the needs of left-handers within our schools. This aspect of teaching task is becoming increasingly more difficult, since increasing numbers of left-handed pupils are in attendance.
The contemporary teacher comes into daily contact with much larger number of pupils than ever before. The educational process ceases to be enjoyable to this neglected minority. It is necessary to realize that while textual learning is important, the learning of self-confidence, cooperation, curiosity, persistence, inferiority, alienation and so on, is more important in order to develop a wholesome personality. Besides the home, the school engages children for most part of their waking lives.
If the school experiences are unpleasant, it could be most unfortunate for the child. This study is therefore of value for right-handed parents, teachers, employers, physicians, design engineers, students, as well as left-handers and ambidextrous of all ages, including educational policy makers and implementers. Parents want what is best for their children, teachers strive to maximize individuals potential to learn, employers strive to maximize their profit, and manufacturers want their products to sell.
The hope is for parents, educators, employers, and manufacturers to understand that the best way to achieve their goals is by listening to left-handers and ambidextrous and providing for their needs [ 8 ]. The right hand is consequently valued over the left hand in the Bible. Since the right hand indicated the stronger blessing, it was inferred that God favors the right hand in other matters as well.
Thus Ehud assassinated Eglon, King of Moab. Ehud rose to become the second Judge in Israel. He ruled Israel for eighty 80 years. Citing studies in the genetics of left-handedness and Biblical texts, Seevers and Klein showed that it may have been a bit of both [ 9 ].
Warriors from the tribe of Benjamin might have been trained to be equally or more effective with their left hands. First Chronicles seems to reference bowmen who were ambidextrous. When the Bible refers to left-handed people, it speaks of left-handedness as an advantage, not a weakness. In many religions, including Christianity, the right hand of God is the favored hand.
Both the Jewish and Christian traditions are strongly right-handed in their nature and practices. For Catholics, Anglicans, Episcopalians, and other denominations, the priest must present the communion water with the right hand, and the communicant accepts it with the right hand. The dominant hand is always stronger than the other arm, and about 90 percent of people are right handed. By implication, in the vast majority of people, the right hand is stronger [ 10 - 13 ].
Thus, the Bible uses the right hand as a symbol of strength and honor. The position of this paper is that this does not carry any negative connotations of left handed people. This should not be understood as a slight against left-handed people. It is simply a matter of symbolism. This has to be so because whenever the Bible mentions left handed people, it does not present left handedness as a weakness.
For she is more profitable than silver. The Sunnah of the Prophet illustrated that it is desirable to use right hand in everything that we wish to honor. Allah knows the best. It is impermissible for the Muslim to eat with left hand. The Prophet saw a man eating with his left hand and ordered him to eat with his right hand. From that time forward, the man lost his ability to raise his right hand [ 14 ]. Ulama have said that it is permissible to write with the left hand. Besides eating and drinking which should be done with the right hand, there is no harm in doing everything else with the left hand.
And Allah knows best. Across history, children suffer persecution, rejection and abuse during their early days of Education because of being left-handed [ 15 ]. Some were traumatized and beaten by school teachers when they were young, because they had totally failed to adjust and was writing with their left hands. So in conclusion, the key thing in my mind is the need for recognising the complexities of the human condition.
This in turn requires a nuanced response — a nuance many Christians might have trouble recognising. It is important because whether we like it or not, these issues are not going away. To comment, click here. See M. So much so, they became a satirical representation of a boring, traditional family, in modern movie remakes of the same name. However, the Bradys were in fact, and quite ironically, a blended family, comprising a widow with three daughters who married a widower with three sons.
This in itself reflects a change in cultural norms. There might be a lesson in that too! Stephen Ferguson is a lawyer from Perth, Western Australia, with expertise is in planning, environment, immigration and administrative-government law. He is married to Amy, and has a one child, William. To contribute to Adventist Today, click here. Search for:. Toggle navigation. Is Being Left-Handed a Sin? One of the most colorful stories in the Bible tells how Ehud, the left-handed Israelite judge from the tribe of Benjamin, freed Israel from Moabite domination Judg.
When Ehud delivered Israel's annual tribute to the Moabites, he assassinated the fat Moabite king by using a double-edged dagger he had hidden on his right thigh.
This story is famous not only for its gory detail "the fat closed over the blade This mention of left-handed Ehud is one of only three places where left-handed people appear in the Bible.
All of these left-handers appear in military contexts, 2 and all, curiously, come from the tribe of Benjamin. In addition to the left-handed Benjamite Ehud, Judges refers to Benjamites who could use the sling with great accuracy "Every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss" and all were left-handed.
Finally, 1 Chronicles states that some of the Israelites who came to support David when he ruled in Hebron included some two dozen ambidextrous warriors who could use either the bow or the sling "with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjamites.
This consistent intersection of left-handedness and the tribe of Benjamin raises the question, did this one particular tribe produce an unusually high number of left-handers?
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