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In 1977, with Israel on the cusp of a peace deal with Egypt, Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza penned music to and performed the now iconic song, \u201cYihiye Tov<\/em>\u201d (It Will Be Good<\/em> – lyrics by recently deceased author Yonatan Gefen). The song expresses both the hope and disappointment at the political situation and the move towards peace. At the end of the song, Broza imagines a future of peace and co-existence, which he describes by paraphrasing the messianic vision described in this chapter, \u201cThe wolf will live come to live with the lamb, and the tiger will lie down with the kid\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Geffen\/Broza\u2019s hope for peace has not yet been fully realized, nor has the vision of the prophet that we read in this chapter. But maybe that is exactly the point of this image: to force us to confront our ideas of peace and what would constitute a true and complete peace, so that we reckon with the incomplete peace in which we live. The chapter begins with a more realistic and realized vision of peace and renewal, in which the shoot of the line of Jesse (a reference to King David and the Jewish Messiah) emerges from a stump of a tree. Broza\u2019s song is, perhaps, a living testament to the truth of this prophecy. After several bitter and costly wars, Israelis were still able to dream of peace and negotiate with their neighbors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the prophecy has not yet come true, and maybe it never will. It is hard to imagine combatants laying down their weapons and coexisting with their enemies in peace and security in Israel any time soon, just as it is hard to imagine bears grazing with cows or lions eating straw, as this chapter envisions. For a world utterly without violence, we must continue to wait for the messianic era. But as Broza sings, in the meantime, we can pursue peace and continue to believe and hope that everything will be ok.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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