{"id":64856,"date":"2019-10-27T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=64856"},"modified":"2023-05-22T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:48:53","slug":"a-glimmer-of-hope-from-rebellious-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-glimmer-of-hope-from-rebellious-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glimmer Of Hope From Rebellious Youth"},"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":[529,451,813,571],"acf":{"old_id":"64856","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"337","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Who will lead the way back - or forward?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Isaiah resumes his prophecy detailing the destruction of Jerusalem and the kingdom of Judah, he enumerates a series of curses that will befall the nation: famine, a degradation of their legal system, loss of leadership and ultimate oppression. One can hardly imagine the pain with which Isaiah brings this information to his people, deserving though it may be. The Gemarah (Chagigah 14a) tells us he did not calm down until he said, \u2018they will act arrogantly: the boy against his elder (3:5).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many interpret this prophecy of children disrespecting elders as the ultimate curse. While Malbim speaks of the reversal of a natural order of respect, and Radak refers to insolent behaviour, Rav Schwab (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rav Schwab on Yeshayahu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) has a totally different interpretation. According to his understanding, the calm that came over Isaiah with this proclamation was induced by the first glimmer of hope for redemption from this national tragedy. \u201cThe first sign of hope for the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">teshuvah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (loosely translated as repentance, but so much more than that) of the Jewish nation was the rebellious attitude of the younger generation against their parents and elders,\u201d says Rav Schwab. According to this interpretation Isaiah understood the power of youth \u2013 to question, to want a better world, to hold their preceding generation to account for the mess they are now in. And most importantly, to begin the cycle of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">teshuvah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 returning to the life they were meant to have, the first step of which is rejection of the values and lifestyles that their elders had embraced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My generation has driven an epic <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">teshuvah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> movement \u2013 rejecting their parents drive to assimilation, examining their own place in the world and redefining their relationship with God. A Jewish revolution has occurred in the past half-dozen decades. But to what has the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ba\u2019al teshuvah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> movement returned? To the core values of the generations against which their own parents rebelled. It seems that continual progress is made only by repeating this cycle of examination, rejection and reformation. It was an idea apparent to Isaiah, perhaps lost for some time, but back again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 21<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century it\u2019s not a single nation that finds itself in a mess, it\u2019s the whole world. And we would do well to listen to the rebellious youth who are holding one generation to account to ensure a future for the next. 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