{"id":64412,"date":"2019-10-17T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T09:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=64412"},"modified":"2023-05-14T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T11:01:09","slug":"moses-own-torah-scroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/moses-own-torah-scroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses&#8217; Own Torah Scroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[905,944,410],"acf":{"old_id":"64412","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33692,"related_cahpter":"331","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"And its dire predictions","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 Kings talks about discovering &#8220;the Torah scroll,&#8221; and Chronicles talks about &#8220;the book of the Torah of God, by the hand of Moses&#8221; (II Chr. 34:14). For this reason, many commentaries (e.g. Josephus, Radak, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daat Mikra<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) see the book as an ancient Torah scroll, indeed the original Torah written by Moses himself at the end of his life (Deut. 31:26). Abarbanel writes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<em>Chazal<\/em> say (Sanhedrin 102b) that Manasseh would erase God&#8217;s name from Torah scrolls and replace it with idolatrous names. Hence, one of the priests feared that if Moses&#8217; Torah scroll were to come into the king&#8217;s hands, [Manasseh] would remove the divine names here too and replace them. And so he hid the scroll in a chamber between the walls. In Josiah&#8217;s initial period, when he returned to God&#8230;the priests failed to find the scroll. But when they came to repair the house, Hilkiah found it between the walls and it was like finding a treasure; as such he said, &#8220;I have found the Torah scroll&#8221; &#8230;. It would not have generated such fright had it not been the selfsame Torah scroll that was penned by Moses&#8217; holy hands, directly from the Almighty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have identified the specific Torah scroll, but we have yet to appreciate why it generated such panic. Abarbanel boosts his interpretation with yet another detail:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Rabbis in the Jerusalem Talmud explain that normally Moses&#8217; scroll was rolled to its beginning, but when they discovered it, they opened it at the verse: &#8220;God shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known&#8221; (Deut. 28:36). The king was alarmed; he saw the entire event as a miracle and a divine sign regarding the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The verse in question is a covenantal segment of Deuteronomy known as the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tokhacha<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the &#8220;rebuke,&#8221; that forewarns of the paradigm in which national sin and abrogation of the covenant with God will engender the land&#8217;s desolation and national exile. This approach certainly fits into the narrative context, as we hear Hulda&#8217;s terrible prediction:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is what the Lord says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people, according to everything written in the book the king of Judah has read. Because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods and aroused My anger by all the idols their hands have made\u201d (II Kings 22:16-17).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex Israel, <em>II Kings: In a Whirlwind<\/em>, Maggid Books, 2019, Josiah\u2019s Religious Revolution\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":63310,"id":63310,"title":"Alex Israel - 2_kings_cover","filename":"Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-hairy-prophet\/alex-israel-2_kings_cover\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"alex-israel-2_kings_cover","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":63117,"date":"2019-09-23 13:43:41","modified":"2019-09-23 13:53:01","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1711,"height":1821,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-282x300.jpg","medium-width":282,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-768x817.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":817,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-962x1024.jpg","large-width":962,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","1536x1536-width":1443,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","2048x2048-width":1711,"2048x2048-height":1821,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-1128x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1128,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-395x420.jpg","home_baner-width":395,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Excerpts from: II Kings - 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