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Our chapter concludes with a remarkable vision of the future: <\/span><\/p>\n

The wolf and the lamb shall graze together. And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the serpent\u2019s food shall be earth. In all My sacred mount, nothing evil or vile shall be done, said the Lord (Isaiah 65:25). <\/span><\/p>\n

Here, Isaiah re-echoes one of his earlier visions: <\/span><\/p>\n

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb…And the lion, like the ox, shall eat straw. A babe shall play over a viper\u2019s hole\u2026In all My sacred mount, nothing evil or vile shall be done (Isaiah 11:6-9).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe serpent\u2019s food shall be earth\u201d clearly reflects the curse of the serpent for leading the first humans to eat of the forbidden fruit: <\/span><\/p>\n

Then the Lord God said to the Serpent, \u2018Because you did this, more cursed shall you be than all domesticated animals and all wild beasts. On your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life\u2019 (Gen. 3:14).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Serpent\u2019s curious diet particularly attracted the attention of the Rabbinic Sages. Talmud Bavli Yoma 75a preserves a discussion between two important Rabbis (3<\/span>rd<\/span>-4<\/span>th<\/span> century CE) on the verse: \u201cAnd the serpent\u2019s food shall be earth\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbi Ammi said: \u2018Even if the serpent were to eat all the delicacies of the world, he would only taste earth\u2019. Rabbi Assi said: \u2018Even if the serpent were to eat all the delicacies of the world, he would not be satisfied until he had eaten earth.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Tanhuma Vayigash 8 preserves a \u201ccircular proem\u201d that begins and ends with the first verse of Isaiah\u2019s prophecy: \u201c\u2018The wolf and the lamb shall graze together\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Come and see! What the Holy One blessed be He, injures in this World, He will heal in the World to Come\u2026Even most of the beasts shall be \u2018healed\u2019, as it says: \u2018The wolf shall dwell with the lamb\u2026\u2019 But the serpent shall never be healed, as it says: \u2018And the serpent\u2019s food shall be earth\u2019. For it was the serpent who \u2018brought mankind down into the earth\u2019 (i.e. humans are buried in the earth, which is punishment for the sin of Adam and Eve, instigated by the serpent, in eating the forbidden fruit, see Talmud Bavli Shabbat 55b)\u2026\u2019Lamb\u2019 refers to the People of Israel, who may be \u2018scattered like sheep\u2019 (Jeremiah 50:17), but in the time of Joseph the sons of Jacob\/Israel came together in reconciliation\u2019\u201d (see Genesis 43:33).<\/span><\/p>\n

This ancient Midrash bears a message that remains relevant to our day. However, \u201cscattered\u201d we may be in our divergent views on various issues, it behooves us to reconcile our differences in a spirit of compromise in order to forge a unified approach to achieving those basic goals on which we do agree.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":68804,"id":68804,"title":"is65-snake","filename":"is65-snake.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is65-snake.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wolf-lamb-lion-and-serpent\/is65-snake\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is65-snake","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":68803,"date":"2020-01-21 08:14:21","modified":"2022-02-07 09:17:36","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1339,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is65-snake-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is65-snake-300x209.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":209,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is65-snake-768x536.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":536,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is65-snake-1024x714.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":714,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is65-snake.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1071,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is65-snake.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1339,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is65-snake-1200x837.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":837,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is65-snake-602x420.jpg","home_baner-width":602,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Wolf, Lamb, Lion And Serpent","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"But in particular\u00a0 - 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