{"id":66337,"date":"2019-12-01T00:55:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T22:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=66337"},"modified":"2023-06-23T07:46:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T04:46:59","slug":"assyria-and-egypt-two-kinds-of-diasporas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/assyria-and-egypt-two-kinds-of-diasporas\/","title":{"rendered":"Assyria And Egypt: Two Kinds Of Diasporas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And in that day, a great shofar shall be sounded; and the strayed who are in the land of Assyria and the expelled who are in the land of Egypt shall come and worship the Lord on the holy mount, in Jerusalem (27:13).<\/span><\/p>\n

Most researchers agree that the historic Isaiah ben Amotz lived from the mid- to late- 8th-century BCE at a time when Assyria was expanding from its origins in modern-day northern Iraq, westward, towards the Land of Israel, conquering first Aram (today\u2019s Syria), then the Kingdom of Israel (722 BCE) and finally controlling Judea (701, before the later destruction in 586 BCE). It is therefore no wonder that a prophecy of redemption will include a hope for those in Assyria, but why call them \u201cstrayed\u201d or \u201clost,\u201d and why differentiate them from those in Egypt, calling the latter \u201cexpelled\u201d or impoverished\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on a commentary by the Ba\u2019al Shem Tov, we can see here a reference to two kinds of diasporas. One is those who physically suffer. They are destitute, forlorn, forgotten; they feel \u201csquashed\u201d; their country is Egypt – <\/span>Mitzrayim<\/span><\/i>, the \u201cnarrow place\u201d where they are held tightly.<\/span><\/p>\n

But over the centuries, we have seen another kind of diaspora, that of Assyria, Ashur. The root for Ashur, a.sh.r. is the same one used for happiness. Theirs is not a diaspora of anguish and misery, but of joy, richness and deliriousness; of \u201cnothing is wrong and everything is great\u201d. They are therefore \u201clost\u201d. Instead of being an \u2018<\/span>Oved Hashem<\/span><\/i>, a worshipper of God, where the word \u2018<\/span>oved <\/span><\/i>is written with the letter \u2018<\/span>ayin<\/span><\/i>– \u05e2\u05d5\u05d1\u05d3 they are an <\/span>oved<\/span><\/i>, with an <\/span>alef <\/span><\/i>\u05d0\u05d5\u05d1\u05d3, meaning \u201clost.\u201d What was supposed to be grounding was replaced with a rootless giddy feeling. Turns out that it\u2019s possible to be \u201ctoo happy\u201d and that this might be just as bad and dangerous as being too sad.<\/span><\/p>\n

The day of redemption Isaiah tells us about here, is not just a day to save the poor, but a time to bring everybody together, even those who seem to have everything. They too need to join in a place of peace.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Assyria And Egypt: Two Kinds Of Diasporas","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"All shall reunite - The day of redemption is not just a day to save the poor, but a time to bring everybody together, even those who seem to have everything: they too need to join in a place of peace","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\/66337"}],"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=66337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116356,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66337\/revisions\/116356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}