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Following on the messianic vision of Isaiah 11, Isaiah continues here with the predicted response of the people. These are some of the best-known verses in the book (12:2-3), since they are recited at the end of Shabbat, in the <\/span>Havdalah<\/span><\/i> ceremony:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u05d4\u05b4\u05e0\u05bc\u05b5\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d9\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05b8\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d0\u05b6\u05d1\u05b0\u05d8\u05b7\u05d7 \u05d5\u05b0\u05dc\u05b9\u05d0 \u05d0\u05b6\u05e4\u05b0\u05d7\u05b8\u05d3 \u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05bd\u05d9\u05be\u05e2\u05b8\u05d6\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d5\u05b0\u05d6\u05b4\u05de\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05ea \u05d9\u05b8\u05d4\u05bc \u05d4’ \u05d5\u05b7\u05bd\u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05be\u05dc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05dc\u05b4\u05bd\u05d9\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05b8\u05bd\u05d4. \u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05d0\u05b7\u05d1\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b6\u05dd \u05de\u05b7\u05d9\u05b4\u05dd \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e9\u05c2\u05b8\u05e9\u05c2\u05d5\u05b9\u05df \u05de\u05b4\u05de\u05bc\u05b7\u05e2\u05b7\u05d9\u05b0\u05e0\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05b7\u05d9\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05b8\u05bd\u05d4.<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, the God of my triumph! I am confident, unafraid; For Yah the LORD is my strength and might, And He has been my deliverance. You will joyfully draw water from the fountains of triumph.<\/span><\/p>\n

The prophetic metaphor of God as water source, and divine involvement as water itself, is activated here in saying that the Jews will draw from the fountains of triumph \u2013 and God is the God of triumph! So Godly sustenance is close at hand, and the people\u2019s thirst for deliverance will thus be quenched.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is something unfair about this praise, though, when we recite it in the\u00a0<\/span>Havdalah<\/span><\/em>. We gloss over the first verse of our chapter, which confronts the complexity head-on: \u201cAlthough You were wroth with me, Your wrath has turned back, and You comfort me.\u201d God may be the source of our salvation, but he was also the cause of our suffering beforehand. Now, of course, this is a cycle, and God caused us to suffer because of our behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n

Granting God credit for delivering the people from oppression that God brought about is like a prisoner singing the praises of the warden who lets her out at the end of her sentence, or a child who thanks his parent for declaring that a period of punishment is now over. These scenarios seem, in fact, quite natural, although they are logically odd.<\/span><\/p>\n

In our own day, there is a reflex of these in the responses of some thinkers to the catastrophes and the miracles of the Jewish 1940s. For some theologians, such as Eliezer Berkovitz, God is not to blame for the Holocaust \u2013 humankind must bear full responsibility for that \u2013 but God gets at least some of the credit for the establishment of the State of Israel. Isaiah doesn\u2019t shy away from acknowledging both sides: Although you were wroth, you comfort me. It is far more comforting, however, to begin with the end.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"The God Of Triumph And Salvation And\u2026","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"We gloss over the first verse of our chapter, which confronts the complexity head-on: \u201cAlthough You were wroth with me, Your wrath has turned back, and You comfort me.\u201d God may be the source of our salvation, but he was also the cause of our suffering beforehand.","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115787,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65453\/revisions\/115787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}