{"id":65847,"date":"2019-11-19T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=65847"},"modified":"2023-06-14T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T04:50:48","slug":"prophecy-the-tricks-of-the-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/prophecy-the-tricks-of-the-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophecy: The Tricks Of The Trade"},"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":[552,506,377],"acf":{"old_id":"65847","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":64700,"related_cahpter":"354","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"He doesn\u2019t just talk the talk, he walks the walk (barefoot)","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter is one of a number of chapters in the later prophets where the prophet is asked to engage in an unusual, troubling action. The prophet walks without shoes and clothes (either only in sack cloth or even bereft of that) for three years, predicting the fall of Egypt, thereby reminding the Jews that Egypt would not be able to help save them from the Assyrians. Our story echoes the disturbing stories of Hosea marrying an adulterous woman (chapters 1-2) and Ezekiel\u2019s wife dying (chapter 24) \u2013 in each story, a reader finds it hard to imagine how a saintly prophet and his family could be asked to engage in such behaviors!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rashi and the Talmud take all of these texts literally \u2013 one should follow the simple meaning of the text \u201c<em>peshuto shel mikra<\/em>\u201d and therefore if the text indicates that the stories happened, then we must assume they happened, without evidence to the contrary.\u00a0 As is his wont, Ibn Ezra follows the more Midrashic view, arguing the texts did not really happen as they appear to have. Instead, the prophet is given a vision of himself engaging in the unusual action, and then relays that message to the people, &#8220;I saw myself walking without clothes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rashi\u2019s view gives a more robust sense of the purpose and role of prophecy. Prophets do not just convey a message from their Creator, they try to influence, impact, and change people. Words can only go so far \u2013 but enacting and living an unusual life provides an unshakable, visual recollection of the message, and so people cannot help but remember the message that one day soon Egypt would be defeated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The life of the prophet is not easy.\u00a0 The prophet will face adversity, and \u2013 as we see in this chapter and as we saw in chapters 7-8 \u2013 the prophet\u2019s own life becomes part of the messaging and drama. If only the people will listen and learn that the Egyptians will not save them from the Assyrians. 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