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Our chapter begins with one of the most familiar prophecies of Isaiah: <\/span><\/p>\n

It shall come to pass in the end of days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains\u2026and all the nations shall flow to it and many people shall come, and say: \u2018Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord\u2026For out of Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem\u201d (2:2-3).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the early midrashic work, Sifre Devarim (Pisqa\u2019 1, see also Rashi to Zechariah 9:1), Rabbi Yosi ben Dormasqita\u2019, who was from Damascus, declares that in the future Jerusalem will extend to Damascus, and that the Israelite exiles would return to find there a resting place. This he learns by citing two verses: \u201cDamascus is His [God\u2019s] resting-place\u201d (Zechariah 9:1) and \u201cIt shall come to pass in the end of days\u2026many people shall come\u2026\u201d (Isaiah 2:2-3).<\/span><\/p>\n

A later midrashic text, Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana (Qumi \u2018Ori — 21:4), preserves an even more dramatic depiction of Jerusalem in the End of Days: In the future, God will bring together three mountains, Sinai, Tabor and Lebanon, to rebuild on their summits the Temple in Jerusalem. The proof-text cited is our verse: \u201cIt shall come to pass in the end of days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains\u201d (Isaiah 2:2). This Midrash goes on to claim that, in the future, this rebuilt Temple shall sing, and the mountains shall respond. Moreover, Jerusalem will serve as a beacon for the nations of the world for them to walk in its light, as it says: \u201cNations shall walk in Your light\u201d (Isaiah 60:3). For Israel may be likened to oil in the lamp of the Lord. God says to Israel: My children! Since My light is your light and your light is My light, let us go together to give light to Zion, as it says: \u201cArise, My light [Qumi \u2018Ori], for your light has come\u201d (Isaiah 60:1).<\/span><\/p>\n

Midrash Pesiqta Rabbati (40) further notes that the Jerusalem Temple was in the \u201cLand of Moriah\u201d (see Genesis 22:2, 2 Chronicles 3:1), which it interprets to mean \u201cthe Land from which Hora\u2019ah [\u201cInstruction\u201d, i.e. Torah] goes forth, as it says: \u201cFor out of Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem\u201d (Isaiah 2:3). Significantly, it is this verse that is recited, to our day, as part of the ceremony of taking the Torah Scroll from the Ark in order to read from it aloud. This practice may be related to Talmud Bavli Baba Batra 21a, which states that the verse \u201cFor Torah shall come forth from Zion\u2026\u201d was the biblical basis for the directive that teachers of children should be appointed in Jerusalem. This would seem to have been enacted so that on-going generations of Jews, young and old, may continue to proclaim \u201cthe word of the Lord from Jerusalem\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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