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Perhaps the most radical instance of such a metaphor is the prophetic vision appearing in Hosea. See this prophetic book as well as Milton Steinberg\u2019s posthumously published, unfinished novel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prophet\u2019s Wife.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Ezekiel\u2019s version, two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, represent Judah and Israel (v. 4), and become \u201cmarried\u201d to God. But they are so deeply enamored with the non-Jewish world, that they literally \u201cprostituted themselves\u201d again and again in order to hopefully woo the objects of their affections. And ever so ironically, perhaps in the spirit of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mida keneged mida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cmeasure for measure,\u201d God unleashed the very cultures at whom they \u201cthrew\u201d themselves, in order to humiliate and slaughter them and their offspring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A secondary metaphor appearing in chapter 23:31-34 is the \u201ccup of desolation\u201d that these women will be \u201crequired\u201d to drink:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou walked in your sister\u2019s path; therefore, I will put her cup into your (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oholibah\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) hand. Thus said the Lord GOD: You shall drink of your sister\u2019s cup, so deep and wide; it shall cause derision and scorn, it holds so much. You shall be filled with drunkenness and woe. The cup of desolation and horror, the cup of your sister Samaria (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oholah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). You shall drink it and drain it and gnaw its shards\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is as if the determination of these women to subject themselves to\u00a0 the abuses of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Babylonians was an irrational urge, an addiction to the intoxicating substance that filled these cups, that they ever more desperately sought to sate. Malbim on v. 34 writes in terms reminiscent of an unthinking addict:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first time, they would drink the contents of the cup (v. 32.) The second time, they would \u201csuck up\u201d whatever remained on the sides of the cup (v. 34.). And the third time, they would crush the shards of the cup\u2026 in order to try to extract what had been absorbed into the cup\u2019s sides (Ibid.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The portrayal of sinful behavior such as this as a type of dependency that cannot be rationally accounted for, let alone controlled, by the perpetrator, suggests some deep-seated, inherent psychological flaw that might justify an \u201cinsanity defense.\u201d Might the Jewish people have reached a point, orchestrated by God Himself, where they simply couldn\u2019t help themselves, thereby mitigating to a certain extent their 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