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In a line that echoes through our Friday night liturgy, embedded in the kabbalistic prayer <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lekha dodi<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the prophet says, \u201cArise (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">qumi<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)! Shine (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ori<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)! For your light has set, but the presence of the Lord has shone upon you!\u201d One phrase in that line needs comment: the Hebrew <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ki ba orekh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. As the twelfth-century Spanish polymath Abraham ibn Ezra argued, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ba<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> typically means \u201centered,\u201d and when the subject is light, the light has \u201cset.\u201d He compares the expression <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ba ha-shemesh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cthe sun set.\u201d While not all his colleagues were persuaded, this seems right to me. The prophet enjoins, \u201cGet up and shine again, although your own light has already set \u2013 for the presence of the Lord is shining on you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rest of the world may be dark, but you are now a source of light. And as we know, even a little light can illuminate a lot of territory. Nations and kings will use you as a source of light, and people from all around will stream to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this sounds at all familiar, that\u2019s appropriate: the prophet here is clearly re-using the vision of Isaiah 2, where Jerusalem was to be a source of inspiration to people all around. There, too, people were to look from afar, and realize that something glorious was taking place. Note the use of the verb <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nhr<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cglow, gleam\u201d (nothing to do with <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nahar<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rivers!) in both, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vision reaches its crescendo in the last verses. \u201cNo more shall your sun set (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yavo shimshekh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 using the same verb as in v. 1), and there shall be no more mourning. The shoot that the Lord planted \u2013 a reference to Isaiah 11? \u2013 is now revealed to be the whole people of Israel, as \u201cyour nation, all righteous, shall forever possess the land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":68591,"id":68591,"title":"is60-googletext-iphone","filename":"is60-googletext-iphone.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-googletext-iphone.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/let-the-light-shine-in\/is60-googletext-iphone\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is60-googletext-iphone","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":68590,"date":"2020-01-14 15:15:22","modified":"2020-01-14 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