{"id":66568,"date":"2019-12-05T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=66568"},"modified":"2023-07-02T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T10:51:44","slug":"exposing-hypocrites-and-posers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/exposing-hypocrites-and-posers\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposing Hypocrites And Posers"},"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":[542,739,391,436],"acf":{"old_id":"66568","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":62571,"related_cahpter":"366","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"No more shall a villain be called noble...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaiah 32:5-8 states how evil individuals, who have been hypocritically and deliberately misrepresenting themselves in public, have been mistakenly lionized and considered by others as \u201cpillars of society.\u201d Isaiah hopes they will no longer be able to perpetrate such fraud when Hezekiah will be king.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two derogatory terms appear in the text for what the evil-doers are. One is \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">naval<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, one with evil in his heart (see I Samuel 25 for a description of an individual whose name was \u201cNaval\u201d and behaved accordingly); the other \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chilai<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, a knave. Alongside these terms is what these individuals claim publicly to be: \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nediv<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (noble, generous of spirit), and \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sho\u2019a<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (a gentleman, influential person).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verse 6 describes the terrible things that the \u201c<em>naval<\/em>\u201d is really guilty of, i.e., 1) he speaks in an abominable manner; 2) he commits transgressions within his heart; 3) he engages in flattery; 4) he speaks against God errantly; 5) he empties the heart of the hungry (by promising to take care of them, but ends up not doing so); 6) and causes the thirsty not to be able to drink. It is the true \u201c<em>nediv<\/em>\u201d who does the opposite of all of these things (v. 8), and therefore, for the \u201c<em>naval<\/em>\u201d to claim that he is a \u201c<em>nediv<\/em>\u201d, is a travesty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the \u201c<em>chilai<\/em>\u201d is not as abject a sinner as the \u201c<em>naval<\/em>,\u201d nevertheless, the shortcomings associated with such an individual are listed by the prophet in v. 7, and they are also are reprehensible: 1) his instruments are \u201cevil\u201d (perhaps a reference to weights and measures that are dishonest); and 2) he devises plots to harm the poor with lying words in frivolous lawsuits.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud quotes King Yannai, hardly a righteous leader himself, as describing the essence of a \u201chypocrite\u201d:\u2026their deeds are the deeds of Zimri, but they expect a reward like Pinchas\u201d (Sota 22b, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">see Numbers 25:1-15<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some individuals are quite aware of what they could be doing on behalf of others, but because they are\u00a0 so self-absorbed, and\/or believe that ignoring the needy is more personally profitable, easier, \u201cfun,\u201d etc., they prefer to \u201chave their cake and eat it too\u201d in the sense of covering up their corruption by claiming to be high-minded and sacrificial. Such individuals count on the belief that to engage in the type of muck-raking necessary to expose their immoral actions will be costly, difficult, challenging, and, therefore, highly unlikely. The type of government administration that Isaiah believed King Hezekiah would lead, apparently held out the promise that the hypocrites and posers would be exposed, and those hitherto exploited by them, protected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the time Isaiah recognized that his expectations in this regard were not going to be realized, he was highly disappointed, as are many social reformers whose dreams are frustrated.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":66575,"id":66575,"title":"is32-wolf sheep","filename":"is32-wolf-sheep.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is32-wolf-sheep.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/exposing-hypocrites-and-posers\/is32-wolf-sheep\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is32-wolf-sheep","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":66568,"date":"2019-12-05 19:59:42","modified":"2021-10-24 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